Texas Football: Titans HC Mike Vrabel hosting Texas Coaches Clinic

The Texas football program has another big name as the keynote speaker for the coaches clinic this year with Titans HC Mike Vrabel.

Year in and year out, the Texas football program hosts some high profile NFL head coaching names for the annual Texas Coaches Clinic. This year’s Texas coaches clinic will draw yet another big name to the Forty Acres, with Tennessee Titans head coach and former NFL standout linebacker Mike Vrabel as the keynote speaker.

In the midst of spring camp, the Texas Longhorns football program will be hosting Vrabel to their coaches clinic. There were a lot of big names that rolled through the Forty Acres in recent years to host the coaches clinic, including the Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay last year. Three years ago, the Longhorns had New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick as the keynote speaker at the Texas coaches clinic.

A few of the Texas assistant coaches Tweeted out the news on Feb. 12 that the Longhorns would be having Vrabel as the keynote speaker of the coaches clinic. Analyst Bob Shipley and offensive line coach Herb Hand both Tweeted out the news on Wednesday afternoon.

The Texas coaches clinic will take place on April 3 and 4. That will come a few weeks before the kickoff of the spring football game and a little less than one month after the start of spring drills. But this should inject a lot of energy into the program thanks to all the high-profile names that head coach Tom Herman keeps bringing to campus for this event.

Vrabel played his college football with the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Big Ten back in the late 1990’s. He played with the Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Kansas City Chiefs over the course of his more than one-decade long NFL career.

He also started his football coaching career at the college ranks as a linebackers coach and defensive line coach starting at his alma mater, Ohio State, in 2011. Vrabel also served as the Houston Texans linebackers coach and defensive coordinator until he landed the Titans head coaching job in 2018.

The Titans were the Cinderella team in the NFL playoffs this year, making it all the way to the AFC Championship Game before getting knocked off by the eventual Super Bowl Champion Chiefs. In impressive fashion, the Titans took down the previous Super Bowl Champion Patriots and the league’s top seeded Baltimore Ravens.