Papuchis: Texas talk "out of left field"Posted by: Steve Sipple at 1:57PM CST on December 9, 2010
Texas has its eye on Nebraska assistant coach John Papuchis, a source close to Papuchis said Wednesday.
But Papuchis, a defensive line coach and special teams coordinator for NU, said that's news to him.
"That is out of left field," Papuchis told the Journal Star. "No one has contacted me for sure, and no one has contacted anyone out of our university as far as I know."
Mike Tolleson, UT's defensive tackles coach and special-teams coordinator, announced his retirement on Monday.
Papuchis worked with current Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp in 2004, when both were at Louisiana State -- Muschamp as the defensive coordinator for Nick Saban and Papuchis as a defensive intern/graduate assistant.
The 32-year-old Papuchis is in his third season on the Nebraska staff.