Texas Football fires key offensive assistant coach after one season

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Texas Football has reportedly parted ways with running backs coach Chad Scott after just one season. The Texas running game was historically bad this year. The Longhorns averaged just 129.7 yards rushing per game, the program’s worst rushing performance in 81 years, since 1944.

The Longhorns’ leading rusher in 2025 was Tre Wisner with 597 yards. The next closest running back was CJ Baxter with 196 yards followed by Jerrick Gibson with 152. Baxter and Gibson are both in the transfer portal.

Scott was instrumental in recruiting Derrek Cooper and Jett Walker, both backs are in the 2026 signing class.

Scott was the running backs coach at West Virginia for the six years before Steve Sarkisian hired him to replace former running backs coach Tashard Choice. Choice left the 40 Acres to join the Detroit Lions coaching staff.

At West Virginia, Scott had the title of offensive coordinator and running backs coach under then-coach Neal Brown, who also spent the 2025 season at Texas as a special assistant before being named the new head coach at North Texas.

The next running backs coach will be the third to occupy that spot on Sark’s coaching staff in three years.

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