Sarkisian closing in on completing Football assistant coaching staff at Texas - TexasSports.com

Austin, Texas – Texas Head Football Coach Steve Sarkisian is nearing completion of his Longhorn assistant coaching staff, he announced on Friday. All totaled among the nine assistant coaches and Director of Football Performance, the staff has a combined 206 years of coaching experience, including 180 years in collegiate coaching, has coached in 93 bowl games, 11 CFP playoff games and seven National Championship Games, and they have won six of those.

"I'm so excited with how this staff is coming together and thrilled to be officially announcing a tremendous group of coaches, teachers and mentors that will be joining us at Texas," Sarkisian said. "From a developmental and scheme standpoint, there's a lot that goes into finding the right mix of coaches to put together to make your staff. We put a ton of thought into this, looked for the best fit in every position, are very happy with how it's working out, and I really believe you can put this group of coaches up against any staff in the country. They all are highly-regarded, knowledgeable, proven coaches and teachers who can recruit with the best of them and will develop players and maximize their ability. All of them have had a lot of success, are outstanding mentors, coaches and leaders of men, and it's just a great group of guys. They'll all bring their strengths, but at the end of the day, we will come together as one to work toward achieving our common goal of building an elite program and winning championships."

Three members of the assistant coaching staff were part of Alabama's 2020 National Championship season, four have experience coaching in the NFL, two will be continuing their tenure on the Longhorn staff, and all totaled, they have combined to work with 25 conference championship teams. 

"Player development, X's and O's and ability to recruit were our priorities with this staff. When you look at their backgrounds, there's experience and expertise from an NFL standpoint, coaching at a very high level in the college ranks, and it's an outstanding collection of proven and successful recruiters, as well," Sarkisian added. "For every coach we hired, I looked closely at their ability to recruit and evaluate prospects, and this group can do that with the best of them. They all have a great recruiting background and many of them with significant ties to recruiting in the state of Texas."

The group has touched almost every area of the country, while still possessing significant experience both coaching and recruiting in the state of Texas. Six of the assistant coaches have spent time coaching in the Lone Star State, and a seventh was a standout player for the Longhorns.

"It was critical to hire enough coaches with ties to the state of Texas, and extensive backgrounds recruiting our great state," Sarkisian said. "The Texas high school coaches are exceptional, and our relationships with them are critical, essential and priority number one. We will recruit nationally, but we know we have to take care of Texas first and this is a staff that will do that extremely well."

Sarkisian also placed considerable emphasis on building a staff that would work well together, have camaraderie and establish strong relationships with the student-athletes. 

"Coaching is big, and they all have excellent track records in training players and developing fundamentals and techniques, but it's a group that will do a phenomenal job building relationships and developing players, which will be a huge priority for us," Sarkisian said. "Camaraderie was a key, as well. I think a staff that works well together works well with its players, and this group will definitely do that. This is a staff that will build tremendous relationships, cares deeply about the student-athletes and will put our young men in a position to be successful on the football field, in the classroom and in all aspects of their lives."
 
"I'm pumped up about our coaching staff, there's a lot of work to be done, and now it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work."

2021 Texas Football Coaching Staff
(as of 1/22/21)

Jeff Banks: Assistant Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator/Tight Ends Coach
Andre Coleman: Wide Receivers Coach
Bo Davis: Defensive Line Coach
Stan Drayton: Offensive Run Game Coordinator and Running Backs Coach
Kyle Flood: Offensive Coordinator and Offensive Line Coach
Blake Gideon: Safeties Coach
Terry Joseph: Defensive Passing Game Coordinator and Secondary Coach
Pete Kwiatkowski (quit-COW-ski): Defensive Coordinator and Outside Linebackers Coach
AJ Milwee: Quarterbacks Coach
Torre Becton: Director of Football Performance

The special teams coordinator and tight ends coach for an Alabama squad that won the National Championship in 2020, played for the title in 2018 and finished in the top eight in each of his three seasons in Tuscaloosa, Jeff Banks will be Texas' Assistant Head Coach, Special Teams Coordinator and Tight Ends Coach. In his three years with Alabama, the Crimson Tide posted a 38-3 record, won the National Championship in 2020, finished No. 2 in 2018, were No. 8 in 2019 and claimed two SEC Championships. The 24-year collegiate coaching veteran and Upland, Calif. native has spent a total of 14 years working in the state of Texas, serving as special teams coordinator and coaching tight ends or running backs for five years at Texas A&M (2013-17) and nine seasons at UTEP (2004-12). He also had coaching stints at Virginia (2012), Idaho State (2000-03) and Washington State (1998-2000). As a player, Banks was a two-time all-conference punter for Washington State, posting a 42.8-yard average as a junior and 43.4-yard average as a senior. In his final season, he led the Pac-10 and was No. 15 nationally while helping the Cougars go 10-2 and earn an invitation to the Rose Bowl. He was selected to participate in the Senior Bowl that year.

A former member of the Texas coaching staff under Mack Brown (defensive tackles coach/2011-13) with a great deal of experience coaching and recruiting in the state of Texas, Bo Davis returns for a second stint on the Forty Acres as Defensive Line Coach. Davis, who has an extensive coaching background at the collegiate and NFL level, as well as stints as a strength and conditioning coach, joins the Longhorns staff after spending the past three years as defensive line coach for the Detroit Lions. Prior to that, the 26-year coaching veteran spent a year at UTSA (2017), with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2016) and two seasons at Alabama (2014-15). He had two stops at Alabama, serving as defensive line coach for the Crimson Tide for four seasons from 2007-10, as well. During his tenures with the Crimson Tide, Davis coached on a staff that won a pair of National Championships, first in 2009 and then again in 2015. Prior to his first stop at Bama, Davis worked in strength and conditioning for the Miami Dolphins and at LSU and for four years as an assistant coach at Galena Park North Shore High School in Texas. During his time at Galena Park, he worked with National High School Defensive Player of the Year and future Longhorn All-American and NFL standout defensive lineman Cory Redding. A native of Magee, Miss. and three-year letterman at LSU from 1990-92, he garnered second-team All-SEC honors as a senior and earned his bachelor's degree that spring.

The offensive line coach who worked alongside Sarkisian for the past two seasons at Alabama, as well as two years with the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL, Kyle Flood joins the Longhorn staff as Offensive Coordinator and Offensive Line Coach. Flood in 2020 mentored an offensive line that helped pave the way for a historic offensive season that culminated in a National Championship at Alabama. The Crimson Tide offensive line claimed the prestigious Joe Moore Award, which goes to the most outstanding offensive line unit in college football. The unit was led by a pair of consensus first-team All-Americans in Landon Dickerson, the Rimington Award winner as the nation's top center, and tackle Alex Leatherwood, the Outland Trophy winner as the nation's best interior lineman. That group anchored an offense that led the nation in third-down conversion percentage (58.9), team passing efficiency (198.99) and completion percentage (76.2). It ranked second nationally in scoring at 48.5 points per game and fourth in total offense at 541.6 yards per game, both of which were school records. The Bayside, N.Y. native, was a four-year letterman and 1993 graduate of Iona College, and has NFL coaching and collegiate head coaching experience, having served as an assistant coach in Atlanta (2017-18) and as head coach at Rutgers (2012-15). A 28-year coaching veteran, Flood also spent time as an assistant coach at Rutgers (2005-11), Delaware (2002-05), Hofstra (1997-2001) and C.W. Post (1995-96). He began his coaching career at the prep level, spending the 1993-94 seasons at St. Francis High School in New York. 

An All-Big 12 safety, four-year starter and two-time team captain for the Longhorns from 2008-11, Blake Gideon joins the Texas staff as Safeties Coach after serving as special teams coordinator at Ole Miss in 2020. Following his playing career at Texas, Gideon spent a season on the Denver Broncos practice squad in 2012. In May 2013, he elected to retire and began his coaching career as a quality control assistant at Florida in 2014, followed by a year at Auburn as a graduate assistant coach in 2015. Gideon began his full-time coaching career at Western Carolina in 2016, and after two seasons with the Catamounts, served one year stints at Georgia State (2018) and Houston (2019) before moving on to Ole Miss. A native of Leander, Texas, where he played for his father, Steve, at Leander High School, Gideon's 52-straight starts at Texas is the second-longest consecutive starts streak in Longhorn history. He helped Texas to a 12-1 record and No. 3 final ranking while starting as a true freshman in 2008 and played a key role in leading the Longhorns to a 13-1 mark, Big 12 Championship, berth in the BCS National Championship game and a No. 2 final ranking in 2009. A four-time honorable mention All-Big 12 selection, Gideon posted 276 tackles (166 solo), 10 INTs, 20 PBU, two sacks, eight TFL, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and a blocked punt during his UT career. 

Texas' new Defensive Passing Game Coordinator and Secondary Coach, Terry Joseph joins the Longhorns staff fresh off helping Notre Dame earn a College Football Playoff berth in 2020. In three seasons in South Bend, the last two as defensive passing game coordinator and all three as defensive backs coach, he helped the Fighting Irish post a 33-5 record, earn two College Football Playoff appearances, a pair of No. 5 rankings in the final polls (2018 & 2020) and a No. 11 ranking in 2019. A veteran of 15 years of collegiate coaching experience who has coached in 11 bowl games, Joseph has spent time at LSU, Louisiana Tech, Tennessee, Nebraska, North Carolina, as well as three years in the state of Texas while working at Texas A&M from 2014-16. He also held the title of recruiting coordinator for five of his seasons as an assistant coach. He is a former Major League Baseball draft pick who played four seasons in the minor leagues before launching his 22-year coaching career at the high school level. The New Orleans native and 1996 graduate of Northwestern State spent seven years as a high school coach before beginning his college career as an LSU graduate assistant in 2006.

Pete Kwiatkowski, the architect of a consistently strong and widely-regarded defense at Washington for the past seven years, will take over as Texas' Defensive Coordinator and Outside Linebackers Coach. During a three-year stretch from 2016-18, the Huskies won at least 10 games all three seasons, posted a combined record of 32-9, claimed two Pac-12 Championships, advanced to the College Football Playoff in 2016 and played in the Fiesta and Rose Bowls in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, respectively. Year-in-and-year-out, Kwiatkowski's defenses were atop the Pac-12 statistically, and during that three-year stretch, the Huskies ranked among the top 10 nationally in scoring defense and in the top 12 in total defense each year. In 2019, UW ranked 15th nationally in scoring defense (19.4 ppg), and over his seven seasons, the Huskies defense allowed an average of less than 20 points per game. He also has proven to be an outstanding developer of talent, which is exemplified by the 17 players (10 of which were selected in the first two rounds) that have been drafted from the defenses he's worked with at UW. Prior to his time in Seattle, Kwiatkowski spent eight seasons at his alma mater Boise state, first as defensive line coach, then his final four years (2010-13) as defensive coordinator. All totaled, he spent 17 seasons coaching in Boise, including launching his coaching career there from 1988-96. An All-American defensive lineman while he played for the Broncos from 1984-87, he is member of the BSU Athletics Hall of Fame. He also spent time as defensive coordinator at Montana State (2000-05), as well as coaching defense at Eastern Washington (1998-99) and Snow Junior College (1997).

An analyst on the Alabama coaching staff alongside Sarkisian for the past two season, AJ Milwee has been tabbed Quarterbacks Coach at Texas. Prior to his time at Alabama, Milwee, who helped the Crimson Tide post a perfect 13-0 record on the way to the 2020 National Championship, spent seven seasons at Akron, including his last six as the Zips' offensive coordinator. Milwee joined the Akron staff after one year on at East Mississippi Community College, helping the program to an NJCAA national championship. He spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons on Terry Bowden's staff at North Alabama as a graduate assistant. As a student-athlete, after spending his freshman year of eligibility at Alabama, he transferred to North Alabama where he set school records for career passing yards (8,436), pass completions (677), passing attempts (1,030), touchdown passes (73) and total offense (9,401). He earned honorable mention All-America honors as a senior and is a member of the program's all-decade team (1999-2008).

Two assistant coaches from the Longhorns 2020 squad will remain with Texas as members of Sarkisian's staff. Andre Coleman, who spent 2019 as an analyst at UT before taking over as Wide Receivers Coach in 2020, will continue in that role. Stan Drayton, the Longhorns' Offensive Run Game Coordinator and Running Backs coach for the past four seasons, will continue to coach in those roles. Last year, despite injuries affecting almost every player in the wide receiver group at some point, Coleman tutored a balanced group with seven different players reaching double digits in receptions, including four with 20 or more, and eight different players recording a touchdown catch. Joshua Moore's nine touchdown receptions matched the highest single-season total since Jordan Shipley pulled in 13 in 2009. In his four completed seasons as running backs coach, Drayton has guided the development of a trio of backs who have all made significant impacts in Bijan Robinson, Roschon Johnson and Keaontay Ingram. A true freshman, Robinson had breakout performances as the 2020 season progressed and tallied 703 rushing yards on just 86 carries to break the school's single-season yards per carry average record at 8.2. The 2020 Alamo Bowl Offensive MVP amassed a team-high 915 all-purpose yards (703 rush/196 rec/16 KR) during the 2020 season, making him the first freshman to lead the Longhorns in all-purpose yards since Cedric Benson in 2001. Drayton also led Johnson's successful transition from quarterback to running back as a freshman in 2019.

Torre Becton, who has spent the past four seasons heading up the football strength and conditioning program at Cal, will serve as Texas' Director of Football Performance. A veteran of 19 years as a strength and conditioning coach, Becton worked with Sarkisian during his tenure as head coach at Washington and spent four seasons in the state of Texas as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Baylor from 2003-06. He served an additional two years in the Big 12 at Iowa State from 2007-08 and a year in the NFL with the Houston Texans, while his past 10 years have been in the Pac-12 Conference. A native of Kinston, N.C., and a defensive lineman at North Carolina A&T State who graduated in 2000, Becton became one of 10 members of the class of 2019 to earn the prestigious title of Master Strength and Conditioning Coach (MSCCC), which is the top honor awarded by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa).

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