Former Texas football assistant Casey Horny hired at FIU

Yet another former member of the Texas football coaching/support staff has found their next home this offseason. Now former Texas special teams quality control coach Casey Horny is reportedly (per Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports on the afternoon of March 2) set to become the next special teams coach with the Florida International Panthers.

Horny will be joining the FIU coaching staff under former North Carolina Tar Heels and Miami Hurricanes head coach Butch Davis. Prior to landing this job with FIU as their next special teams coach, Horny was in the special teams quality control coach role with the Longhorns for four years.

He joined the Longhorns coaching staff under now former fourth-year head coach Tom Herman prior to the start of the 2017 season. Before joining the Texas coaching/support staff four years back, Horny was an assistant director of football operations under former head coaches Jim Grobe and Art Briles with the Baylor Bears.

This will be the first time in a good while that Horny is hired to a position on a football coaching/support staff outside of the Big 12.

What’s next for former Texas football coaches

Since most of the former Texas coaches and/or staffers from Herman’s crew from last year have found landing spots elsewhere at this point, it’s interesting to see what could be next for them. Herman himself landed a job as an offensive analyst/special projects coach under head coach Matt Nagy with the Chicago Bears in the NFL. That is a job he landed earlier in the week.

This will be the first NFL coaching gig for Herman after serving as the Texas head coach for four years. He registered a career record of 32-18 during his four years on the Forty Acres. Texas finished up the 2020 season in particular with a record of 7-3 (5-3 Big 12) after beating down the Colorado Buffaloes in the Alamo Bowl.

Other significant former Texas assistants such as ex-defensive coordinator/safeties coach Chris Ash and offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich have also found their next destinations. Yurcich will be joining head coach James Franklin and the Penn State Nittany Lions as their next offensive coordinator. And Ash will be joining newly hired head coach Urban Meyer with the Jacksonville Jaguars as a positional coach.

Moreover, Texas replaced the now departed Herman back on Jan. 2 with first-year head coach and former Alabama Crimson Tide offensive coordinator/the reigning Broyles Award winner Steve Sarkisian. Most of the support and on-field coaching staff for Sark has now been rounded out too.

Sark is hitting the ground running with the Longhorns so far this offseason. The results on the recruiting trail, and coaching/support staff he’s assembled thus far, are shining examples of the hopeful direction of where this program is headed in the near future.