After the departure of former co-wide receivers coach Drew Mehringer from the Texas football program and the demotion of Corby Meekins, the search was on to fill one of the most important assistant positions on this coaching staff. The wide receivers coach was much needed to add for both retention and recruiting purposes under head coach Tom Herman heading into the 2020 offseason.
The Texas Longhorns football program really needed to start recruiting better at wide receiver since the Early Signing Period, and to limit the damage before National Signing Day 2020. But that damage for the 2020 and 2021 Longhorns recruiting classes could now be in the past with the announcement of the next wide receivers coach, that came on Jan.