Sacramento State (Big Sky) has hired UNLV (Mountain West) offensive coordinator Brennan Marion as its next head coach. Marion will replace Andy Thompson who left to join the Stanford Cardinal’s (ACC) coaching staff.
Marion played collegiately at Tulsa from 2007 through 2008 and spent the summer of 2009 with the Miami Dolphins. He became a coach at the high school level in 2011 and was named head coach of St. Patrick-St. Vincent in Vallejo, California for the 2013 season. The following season, he was named the head coach of Waynesboro Area High School in Pennsylvania where he won the conference title. Marion went a combined 11-10 over the two years before departing for the college ranks.
Since 2015, Marion has been with 8 different college programs working with various offensive units. In 2020, he was named the wide receivers coach for Hawaii and took the same position in 2021 with the Pittsburgh Panthers. In 2022, he was the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach for Texas before joining UNLV. For the past two seasons, Marion has been the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach of the Rebels.
UNLV has improved offensively in 2022 and 2023. They went from 26.3 points and 352 yards per game to 34.4 points and 413 yards per game in 2023. The numbers improved again to 36.2 points and 426 yards per game in 2024 while UNLV has gone 19-8 overall and 12-3 in the Mountain West with two conference title game appearances.
Marion will replace Andy Thompson who went 11-14 overall and 5-11 in the Big Sky with one playoff appearance in two seasons. Marion and the Hornets will travel to face the South Dakota State Jackrabbits (MVFC) to start the 2025 season.
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