Texas Football: Kansas State’s Sean Snyder interviewed by Longhorns

A big name around the Big 12 parts of the country was interviewed for a position coach opening with the Texas football program this week.

There’s still a handful of notable coaching staff openings along the Texas football program beyond head coach Tom Herman and the coordinator positions. Maybe the most notable of the assistant coach openings with Texas at this point is the tight ends coach.

Since the Texas Longhorns football program recently announced the hiring of former analyst and Kansas State Wildcats co-offensive coordinator Andre Coleman as the next wide receivers coach, the tight ends coach is a heavily followed coaching search. There’s a couple intriguing candidates that stick out of late for the Longhorns.

Apparently Herman and the Longhorns are looking toward another coach that is either currently with, or just left, the Kansas State football program to fill the tight ends coach opening. The Longhorns reportedly interviewed the former Kansas State special teams coordinator and associate head coach Sean Snyder to fill the tight ends coach opening.

The report that Snyder interviewed with Herman and the Longhorns surfaced on the Twitter timeline of Anwar Richardson of Orange Bloods.

By now, Snyder is the director of football operations for Kansas State since his father left the program last offseason. Sean’s father is the former legendary head coach of Kansas State (even the stadium is named after him), Bill Snyder. When Bill stepped down from the Kansas State job following the 2018 college football season, Sean did not received the head coach opening as it looked like he would for a long while.

But Sean is still sticking around in the Little Apple as the director of football operations, which is a role that he originally held with the program from 1994-2010 prior to taking over the STC role. Landing the role of tight ends coach could be a nice step up in the Big 12 for Snyder, though, if he is looking to advance his coaching career with a blue blood that would get him more national attention.

However, just because Snyder was interviewed by Herman for the tight ends coach opening, that doesn’t mean that he is a leading candidate to get the position. Richardson made that clear in his Tweet for the report of his interview.

If Snyder was to land the tight ends coaching job with the Longhorns this offseason, then he would be taking over a group that could be led by Cade Brewer and Brayden Liebrock. Texas has some talent in their tight ends room, but there’s also a lot of youth and inexperience.