Texas officially announces hiring of new wide receivers coach

The Texas Longhorns officially introduced Brennan Marion as the program’s next passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach Friday. On3’s Matt Zenitz first reported the news Thursday.

Marion comes to Texas from Pittsburgh, where he spent this past season as the wide receivers coach. Prior to that, he held the same role for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in 2020.

Marion also had interest from one Group of 5 offensive coordinator opening, but is instead moving to Austin to join Sarkisian’s staff. He’s been a bit of a journeyman the last few years. Texas will be Marion’s seventh school since jumping to college coaching in 2015.

He started is college coaching career with Arizona State as a quality control assistant in 2015 before moving to Oklahoma Baptist as running backs coach in 2016. After working as Howard’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2017-18, Marion took the same position at William & Mary in 2019.

Marion spent his playing days with Tulsa after a year of JUCO. In his first season with the Golden Hurricane, he broke the FBS record for yards per reception with 31.9. He still holds that same record today. He finished with 39 catches for 1,244 yards and 11 touchdowns that season and was named CUSA newcomer of the year.

He went on to earn first-team CUSA honors as a senior before tearing his ACL in the conference championship game. He went undrafted in 2009, joining the Miami Dolphins for training camp. Unfortunately, he re-tore his ACL and ended any chance he had at a pro career.

Shortly after that, Marion got into coaching. His first job came in 2011 as a receivers coach for West Valley College in California. From there, he entered the high school ranks before joining Arizona State in 2015.

Texas went 5-7 in Sarkisian’s first season with the Longhorns, just missing out on a bowl game. The Longhorns got a huge recruiting victory this offseason, though, landing Ohio State transfer and former Five Star Plus+ quarterback Quinn Ewers.

On3’s Nick Schultz contributed to this report.