Texas Football: 3 assistant coaches likely to be head coach candidates

AJ Milwee, QB Coach

There’s a potential star in the making on the Longhorns staff that is doing well it seems in player development and on the recruiting trail thus far. First-year quarterbacks coach AJ Milwee is a very important part of Sark’s coaching staff. And he looks to have a very bright future ahead in the college football coaching ranks.

It is largely up to Milwee to build the right foundation to form relationships with a number of the Longhorns’ top quarterback targets on the recruiting trail in the coming months. Milwee has the weight on his shoulders to build the relationship with, and eventually win over the commitment of, top prospects at the quarterback position such as 2023 five-star Isidore Newman product Arch Manning, 2022 four-star Corner Canyon product Devin Brown, and 2024 four-star Burleson product Dylan Raiola, among others.

Doing a great job with player development, and on the recruiting trail, is about as much as you could ask for out of a positional coach like Milwee. We’ll see how he’s able to do with the most important recruitment Texas is in the midst of right now, with the Louisiana native Manning.

It is also important to see how Manning does with the development of quarterbacks like redshirt junior Casey Thompson, sophomore Hudson Card, and 2022 commit Maalik Murphy.

A logical next step for Milwee, before he would become a college head coach, is to become an offensive coordinator. If he could successfully make that step in the coming years, it just makes sense that he could eventually become a respected FBS head coach.