{"id":150480,"date":"2026-02-04T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:11:06","slug":"nebraska-assistant-josh-martin-takes-job-at-texas-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150480\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska assistant Josh Martin takes job at Texas high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 4, 2026, 4:08 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Nebraska assistant has accepted a head coaching job in Texas high school football. Special Teams assistant Josh Martin has been hired at Liberty Christian in Argyle, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Martin replaces former NFL All-Pro tight end Jason Witten as head coach. Witten left to take the tight ends coaching job with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/oklahoma\" data-autotag=\"a5355359-2a0e-4b89-bd78-9f03c554fe00\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Oklahoma Sooners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Martin originally joined Matt Rhule&#8217;s Nebraska coaching staff as a special teams analyst in 2023. He also served as a tight ends coach while coaching the Huskers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Liberty Christian finished the 2025 season with an 8-4 record. In five years as head coach, Witten compiled a record of 46-15 with two Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools State championships (2023 &amp; 2024).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CornhuskersWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @CornhuskersWire<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CornhuskersWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Nebraska news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 4, 2026, 4:08 a.m. CT A Nebraska assistant has accepted a head coaching job in Texas high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,62580,35,44,3160,3155,45,18378,1593,38866,41113,41357,40674,20207,42,184,43,16548,16269,46,688,9025,27,29,28,36],"class_list":["post-150480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-accessfree","tag-sstssportscollegecornhuskersfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnebraska","tag-tagnebraska-cornhuskers","tag-tagnebraska-cornhuskers-football","tag-tagoklahoma-sooners","tag-tagoklahoma-sooners-football","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsouthern-california-trojans-football","tag-tagsports-coaching-training","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtexas","tag-tagtwitter","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}