Texas Football: Former OK State QB JW Walsh hired as analyst

Yet another addition to the Texas football coaching staff came last weekend, with the hire of J.W. Walsh as an offensive analyst.

There’s even more additions that head coach Tom Herman is making to his staff with the Texas football program in the midst of the 2020 offseason. Texas made most of their adjustments to the coaching staff in its more significant positions even prior to the kickoff of the Alamo Bowl on New Year’s Eve 2019 against the Utah Utes.

However, the Texas Longhorns football program continued their rampant hires to the coaching staff going last weekend with the addition of the former Oklahoma State Cowboys quarterback J.W. Walsh. Facing the Longhorns when they were under the direction of former head coaches Mack Brown and Charlie Strong, Walsh is familiar with this program.

The report that the Longhorns added Walsh to the coaching staff as an offensive analyst came from the Twitter timeline of The Athletic college football writer Max Olson.

Prior to getting hired as an offensive analyst on the Texas coaching staff, Walsh was the running backs coach with the FCS Abilene Christian Wildcats for three years. His first coaching position after graduating from Oklahoma State was as a graduate assistant under head coach Gary Patterson with the TCU Horned Frogs. That graduate assistant position for Walsh came back in 2016.

Moreover, Walsh played under recently hired Texas offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich for three years in Stillwater. Yurcich was Oklahoma State’s offensive coordinator under head coach Mike Gundy from 2013-2018. He then took the position as the Ohio State Buckeyes passing game coordinator under head coach Ryan Day last year.

Walsh will be rejoining Yurcich, this time as an offensive analyst. He got this position when Texas lost former offensive analyst and North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Larry Fedora. Joining the Baylor Bears as their next offensive coordinator, Fedora took a much bigger position elsewhere in the Big 12.

Texas also lost another one of their offensive analysts, as former Kansas State Wildcats co-offensive coordinator Andre Coleman was promoted to wide receivers coach earlier in the offseason.

Walsh will help to add some variety to the schemes revolving around the Texas ground attack and the closer passing game. He was a solid dual-threat quarterback that could add a lot to rising quarterback Sam Ehlinger‘s game this fall. Walsh was once used in variety of ways alongside fellow former Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph under Gundy and Yurcich’s direction back in 2014 and 2015.

Oklahoma State housed the services of Walsh at quarterback from 2012-2015. He saw a lot of success in the Big 12 during that time, but never won a conference title. Walsh played for Oklahoma State in the days where the Big 12 was run by the Oklahoma Sooners, TCU, and Baylor.