Texas Football: Former Texas State HC joins staff as analyst
The Texas football coaching staff got one step closer to rounding out all of its hires in the midst of the long offseason, with former a former Texas St HC.
The coaching staff for the Texas football program will have a brand new look to it in 2020. Even down to the analysts that Texas has on their staff for the 2020 season, there will be a bunch of new faces on the sidelines on the Forty Acres this fall. Head coach Tom Herman had his work cut out for him to find how he would piece together his next coaching staff.
Yet, the Texas Longhorns football program put together a solid coaching staff after hiring two good coordinators and a number of respected positional coaches. Offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich is one of the faster rising assistants in the nation and defensive coordinator Chris Ash is a proven commodity in college.
Another key addition to the Texas coaching staff that happened entering the weekend, according to Anwar Richardson of Orange Bloods, came with former Texas State Bobcats head coach Everett Withers. Texas State had Withers at the helm as head coach from 2016-2018. He was a defensive coordinator with the Florida International Panthers for less than a year, and he was a defensive backs coach with the New York Giants in the NFL in the same year.
Former Texas State football coach Everett Withers will join the Texas Longhorns as an offensive analyst, according to my sources. Withers was the New York Giants DB coach last season. In addition, Corby Meekins is leaving his support staff role to coach tight ends at Houston pic.twitter.com/bBGKmtf7cs
— Anwar Richardson (@AnwarRichardson) February 15, 2020
At one point in the early 2000’s, Withers was the defensive backs coach for the Longhorns. He’s also been a defensive coordinator with the Minnesota Golden Gophers, North Carolina Tar Heels, and Ohio State Buckeyes. He’s had experience with roughly a dozen different teams between the NFL and college football coaching ranks.
Withers played his college ball with the Appalachian State Mountaineers back in the early 1980’s. He then started his college football coaching career in 1988 with FCS Austin Peay. The Tulane Green Wave was the first FBS program to hire Withers.
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During his tenure as a head coach in college, Withers holds a record of 32-41. He is 0-1 in bowl games and 0-2 in his time as a head coach in the FCS Playoffs. He looked like a rising star as a college football head coach prior to seeing the door in San Marcos in 2018 with the Texas State program.