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Longhorns Hire N.C. State's Glasscock as Director of Player Personnel

The Texas Longhorns made a critical addition to their off-the-field staff on Friday, hiring North Carolina State's Billy Glasscock as their director of player personnel

Matt Galatzan

The Texas Longhorns made a major addition to its football staff on Friday afternoon, hiring North Carolina State's Billy Glasscock to the role of director of player personnel. 

Glasscock had been previous connected with the role in the last couple of weeks, as Texas heated up their search to fill the position formerly held by Derek Chang, who was recently let go following the termination of Tom Herman.

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Glasscock later confirmed the report via his personal Twitter account, updating his biography and tweeting the tagline of the Sarkisian administration.

Texas had originally targeted South Carolina's Drew Hughes for the position but backed off due to complications with Hughes' previous employment at the University of Tennessee.

Glasscock, who had held the same position at North Carolina State since 2017, also served as the director of recruiting operations for the Minnesota Golden Gophers from 2011-2016. Glasscock also spent time at Northern Illinois, Arizona Western, and Joliet Junior College.

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Likely one of the few remaining off-the-field support roles Sarkisian had left to fill, Glasscock will, among other responsibilities, work closely alongside newly-hired director of recruiting Brandon Harris, as well as Chris Gilbert, who was recently brought on as the Longhorns director of high school relations.

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Matt Galatzan
MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.

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