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Report: Oklahoma Special Teams Coach Jay Nunez Leaving for Alabama Job

Brent Venables hired Nunez in 2022 to oversee the Sooners' special teams, which showed immediate improvement but then leveled off last season.

Bryce McKinnis

Report: Oklahoma Special Teams Coach Jay Nunez Leaving for Alabama Job
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Former University of Oklahoma special teams analyst Jay Nunez is taking his talents to Tuscaloosa.

Nunez, an Alva, OK, native who joined Oklahoma’s staff in 2022 after spending five years in various roles at Eastern Michigan, will be the University of Alabama’s next special teams coordinator, OU Insider’s Parker Thune, citing unnamed sources, reported via Twitter on Monday night.

Nunez oversaw all special teams in practice, but as an analyst, he was prohibited from coaching them on game day. Head coach Brent Venables assigned each special teams unit its own on-field assistant coach.

Nunez reportedly received a pay increase from $110,000 to $250,000 after his promotion from senior student program coordinator to special teams analyst before the 2023 season.

The Sooners finished sixth in net kickoff return yardage in the Big 12 in 2023; 10th in punt return yardage; 11th in field goal percentage; and eighth in net punting.

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Bryce McKinnis
BRYCE MCKINNIS

Bryce is a contributor for AllSooners and has been featured in several publications, including the Associated Press, the Tulsa World and the Norman Transcript. A Tishomingo native, Bryce’s sports writing career began at 17 years old when he filed his first story for the Daily Ardmoreite. As a student at the University of Central Oklahoma, he worked on several award-winning projects, including The Vista’s coverage of the 2021 UCO cheer hazing scandal. After graduating in 2021, Bryce took his first job covering University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts University sports for the Tulsa World before accepting a role as managing editor of VYPE Magazine in 2022. - UCO Mass Communications/Sports Feature (2019) - UCO Mass Communications/Investigative Reporting (2021) - UCO College of Liberal Arts/Academic presentation, presidential politics and ideology (2021) - OBEA/Multimedia reporting (2021) - Beat Writer, The Tulsa World (2021-2022) - Managing Editor, VYPE Magazine (2022-2023)

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