Texas Football: Larry Fedora to become Baylor OC under Dave Aranda

Former UNC Tar Heels head coach Larry Fedora is now departing from the Texas football program to become Baylor’s offensive coordinator.

A lot of the more significant names that the Texas football program brought in over the course of the last two years to become analysts on this staff are already in different positions or other teams. Texas is looking to cap off the rebuild of their coaching staff entering the 2020 offseason by landing a solid hiring as the defensive line coach. Head coach Tom Herman really just needs to fill that position before he rounds out his coaching staff.

However, there was one key loss for the Texas Longhorns football program on Jan. 25 with the announcement that former analyst Larry Fedora will join the Baylor Bears as their next offensive coordinator. Fedora will reportedly become the next Baylor offensive coordinator to replace the former co-offensive coordinators Jeff Nixon and Glenn Thomas.

This will be a very interesting staff that Baylor is building under former LSU Tigers defensive coordinator Dave Aranda, who is now the Bears head coach. Aranda replaces former Baylor breakthrough head coach Matt Rhule, who made the jump to the NFL to fill the same position with the Carolina Panthers.

Rhule also added a host of big name college football assistant coaches to his staff with the Panthers. The most notable of those is the former LSU passing game coordinator and the Broyles Award winner Joe Brady. LSU and Brady are the reigning College Football Playoff National Champions.

However, Fedora was previously the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels before he was let go and joined the Longhorns as one of the brightest and most experienced offensive analysts. Fedora is a brilliant offensive mind, but he had trouble adjusting to all the injuries and inexperience he ran into with his roster in his latter years in Chapel Hill.

Prior to taking the head coach position with the Tar Heels, Fedora was an offensive coordinator with the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Florida Gators. He was also the head coach of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles prior to jumping up to the Power Five in the same role.

Baylor is now getting close to rounding out their coaching staff. Fedora will also be an offensive coordinator in college football for the first time since 2007 season under head coach Mike Gundy with Oklahoma State.