J.W. Walsh has been stacking experience on his coaching resume since his playing career ended at Oklahoma State in 2015, first at TCU under Gary Patterson, then at Abilene Christian, and most recently at Texas under Tom Herman and Mike Yurcich.
But in an interview with OSU Athletics this week, Walsh revealed that his time away from his alma mater was a long game, part of a yearslong ploy to gather experience so he could return to the orange and black.
“It’s been the goal from day one,” said Walsh, who joined the OSU coaching staff earlier this month as an analyst.