Joey McGuire, who has been on the staff at Baylor for the past five football seasons, is expected to be hired as the next head coach at Texas Tech, three people told Avalanche Journal Media on Sunday.
McGuire would be the successor to Matt Wells, whom Tech dismissed on Oct. 25, midway through his third season.
It’s not immediately clear when McGuire will take charge of the Red Raiders. He is associate head coach and outside linebackers coach for Baylor, which is 7-2 and ranked No. 18 in the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll. The two teams play a regular-season finale against each other on Nov. 27 in Waco.
Then-Cedar Hill (Texas) High School coach Joey McGuire, right, is expected to be Texas Tech’s next head football coach.
As head coach at Cedar Hill (Texas) High School from 2003 through 2016, McGuire went 141-42 and led the Longhorns to four state-championship games, winning in 2006, 2013 and 2014 and finishing runner-up in 2012. His teams won seven district titles and nine bi-district championships.
McGuire then went to Baylor as a charter member of Matt Rhule’s staff, serving as tight ends coach in 2017 and 2018 and as defensive ends coach in 2019. When Rhule left to become head coach of the Carolina Panthers, McGuire stayed on as a member of Dave Aranda’s staff, having served as outside linebackers coach in 2020 and 2021.
He has had the title of associate head coach since 2019.
In three years under Rhule, the Bears went from 1-11 to 7-6 to 11-3 and a Sugar Bowl appearance. They regressed to 2-7 in Aranda’s first season last year, but have quickly rebounded to become bowl eligible in their first seven games this year.
McGuire graduated from Crowley High School in 1989 and from Texas-Arlington in 1993. He started his career as an assistant at Crowley and Cedar Hill.
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