Texas football WR coach/PGC Brennan Marion leaves for UNLV OC job
Some bad news arrived for the Texas football program this weekend with first-year wide receivers coach/passing game coordinator Brennan Marion leaving for the offensive coordinator position with the UNLV Rebels. Bruce Feldman of The Athletic and FOX tweeted on the morning of Jan. 8 that Marion “is expected to become the new offensive coordinator at UNLV”.
He also mentioned in his tweet on Jan. 8 that Marion has “been a prolific OC with his Go-Go offense previously at William & Mary and Howard”.
Marion spent one year at Texas as the wide receivers coach/passing game coordinator under head coach Steve Sarkisian before taking this role with the UNLV staff. He’ll be joining a UNLV staff under new head coach and former Arkansas Razorbacks defensive coordinator Barry Odom.
Odom replaced former UNLV head coach Marcus Arroyo after leading the Rebels for three seasons. Arroyo was let go earlier this offseason.
First-year Texas football WR coach/pass game coordinator Brennan Marion takes OC role at UNLV
SOURCE: Texas passing game coordinator Brennan Marion is expected to become the new offensive coordinator at UNLV. He’s been a prolific OC with his “Go-Go” offenses previously at William & Mary and at Howard.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) January 8, 2023
Marion will now continue his upward trajectory as a college football coach. His stock is quickly rising around the college football landscape.
It all started for Marion in terms of his time as an offensive coordinator at the Division I level with the FCS Howard Bison in 2017. He served as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Howard for two years (2017 and 2018).
After two solid years at Howard, Marion left to take the same role with the FCS William & Mary Tribe ahead of the 2019 season.
Marion’s three seasons as an offensive coordinator at Howard and William & Mary is where he made his “Go-Go” offensive system famous. That is something that Feldman mentioned in his report this weekend.
Moreover, Marion would get his first shot as an FBS coach ahead of the 2020 season, when he took the role of wide receivers coach with the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.
Marion spent one year with Hawaii before taking a position as the Pitt Panthers wide receivers coach. That’s where Marion did one of his best jobs coaching up the eventual Biletnikoff Award winner at Pitt, Jordan Addison.
The job he did with Addison at Pitt is largely what drew Sark and the Longhorns to him to replace Andre Coleman as their WR coach last offseason. Marion did a nice job in his one season as the Texas wide receivers coach helping to develop the existing talent on the Forty Acres and cultivating relationships on the recruiting trail with top guys such as five-star 2023 DeSoto wideout Johntay Cook and 2024 five-star Lake Belton wideout Micah Hudson.
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Sark, Marion, and the Longhorns finished up the 2022 season with a record of 8-5 (6-3 Big 12) after a 27-20 loss in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29 at the hands of the No. 12 Washington Huskies. Texas will now be looking to find its third wide receivers coach in the last two years.