In January 2013 he became a Graduate Assistant for the University of Tennessee Volunteers under Coach Butch Jones.
After Chizik was fired by Auburn following the 2012 season and Thigpen was not retained by new coach Gus Malzahn (who had previously worked alongside Thigpen under Chizik), he was hired to coach linebackers at the University of Tennessee for new head coach Butch Jones.
Tom Jones | Tom Jones (singer) | Quincy Jones | Indiana Jones | Norah Jones | James Earl Jones | George Jones | Chuck Jones | John Paul Jones | Grace Jones | Terry Jones | Edward Burne-Jones | Inigo Jones | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Jim Jones | Hank Jones | Rickie Lee Jones | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paula Jones | Butch Morris | Blank & Jones | Tommy Lee Jones | Jones | Dow Jones Industrial Average | Alias Smith and Jones | Shirley Jones | Peter Jones | Mother Jones | Gwyneth Jones | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |