Texas Football: Brandon Harris promoted to director of recruiting
The continued movement of the support staff for the Texas football program and newly hired head coach Steve Sarkisian went on into the middle of this week. But the most recent position filled on the Texas staff was a promotion from within. Former Alabama Crimson Tide offensive coordinator and reigning Broyles Award winner Sark is putting a lot of focus on his hire for the next director of recruiting.
According to a report from Horns247 on Feb. 17, Sark and the Longhorns are “finalizing the deal” to make former assistant running backs coach Brandon Harris their next director of recruiting. The former LSU Tigers and North Carolina Tar Heels dual-threat quarterback Harris is set to replace the now former Texas director of recruiting Bryan Carrington.
Carrington is off to join head coach Clay Helton and the USC Trojans in the PAC-12. He is one of a number of former Texas assistant coaches and support staff that has made their way off the Forty Acres since the departure of now former fourth-year head coach Tom Herman.
What about Sark, Harris and the Texas football staff
Back on Jan. 2, Texas replace Herman with Sark as their next head coach. Since then, the on-field coaching staff and support staff have started to be finalized still early in this offseason. Harris is one of a few pieces of Sark’s support staff that have fallen into place in the last two weeks.
Harris will reportedly head up the Texas football recruiting department while maintaining a role as an offensive analyst moving forward. He originally joined the Texas program back in the 2019 offseason, with Herman still leading the program as head coach.
Prior to taking this job with Texas, Harris was a quarterback that played for both UNC and LSU. He spent three years with the Tigers before transferring to UNC for his senior campaign. During his playing days in college between LSU and UNC, Harris registered 3,102 passing yards, 21 passing touchdowns, 18 interceptions, 456 rushing yards, and seven rushing scores.
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Sark is largely rounding out both his coaching and support staff nearly two months into his offseason tenure as Texas head coach. Promoting Harris to director of recruiting looks to be a solid move to boost some level of stability on this staff.