On June 8, Inside Texas revealed that Paul Chryst, the head coach of Texas football, had fired his special assistant. In 2023, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian hired Chryst as a special assistant to the head coach.
All three Texas football special assistants, including Paul Chryst, have left the program.
As a special assistant, Chryst assisted the Longhorns in the previous season with personnel and offensive game preparation. He was hired by Texas following his release from the Wisconsin Badgers during the 2022 season.
Chryst was the head coach at Wisconsin from 2015 to 2022, when he was hired by Texas last year. Prior to being appointed to the same position with the Badgers before of the 2015 campaign, he served as head coach of the Pitt Panthers from 2012 to 2014.
Chryst was reportedly spotted at Green Bay Packers off-season practices alongside Texas tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Jeff Banks, according to a source from Inside Texas. Kyle Flood, the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for Texas, attended OTAs with Banks and Chryst last month as well.
The three special assistants Texas hired in 2023 for the head coach position have all gone on to take on new positions. Head coach Shane Beamer appointed former Texas S/T special assistant Joe DeCamillis to the position of South Carolina Gamecocks special teams coordinator.
Payam Saadat, a former defensive special assistant for Texas, left the Longhorns to become the defensive line coach and associate head coach of the Nevada Wolfpack alongside Jeff Choate. Early in the offseason, Nevada hired Choate, the former co-DC/LB coach of Texas, as their new head coach.
