Greg Schiano will reportedly be looking for a new cornerbacks coach.

Steve Sarkisian needed a new safeties coach after Blake Gideon left Texas to become Georgia Tech’s defensive coordinator. According to Texas insider Anwar Richardson of Orangebloods, Sarkisian is poaching Mark Orphey from Rutgers, where he coached cornerbacks for the past 3 seasons.

It’s a homecoming to the Lone Star State for Orphey. A Houston native, Orphey graduated from Texas Southern, where he was all-Southwestern Athletic Conference at cornerback as a junior and senior, in 2010.

Orphey got his start in coaching at his alma mater as cornerbacks coach. He then went to South Carolina, where he earned his master’s degree in 2015. Orphey was a quality control assistant and grad assistant with the Gamecocks from 2013-16.

Orphey had 2-year stops at Montana State (2017-18) and Utah State (2019-20). He then took a position as senior defensive analyst on Nick Saban’s Alabama staff in the 2021 season, a year after Sarkisian left Tuscaloosa.

After the Alabama analyst gig, Orphey landed an on-field gig as Rutgers’ cornerbacks coach ahead of the 2022 campaign.