Jeff Traylor, Gilmer Athletic Directior and Head Football Coach answers a question at the press conference announcing the KYKX Saturday Game of the Week at Longview's Lobo Stadium. His Buckeyes will play the Henderson Bulldogs Saturday October 13, 2012 at 7 p.m.

The Texas Longhorns will have a highly successful high school football coach on staff after all if Gilmer’s Jeff Traylor accepts the job as tight ends coach.

Orangebloods.com and the Austin American-Statesman are reporting that Traylor will take the assistant coaching job, but nothing is official.

If he accepts, Traylor will be the tight ends/special teams coach for Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong.

After leading the East Texas power for 15 years, Traylor would replace another former Texas high school coach in Bruce Chambers, who was let go after serving under former head coach Mack Brown and new head coach Charlie Strong at Texas for 17 years.

Traylor met with Strong on Monday and then formally interviewed for the job on Tuesday after Cedar Hill head coach Joey McGuire turned down the position over the weekend. McGuire wanted to stay at Cedar Hill to coach his son.

One East Texas observer said it would be a “home-run hire” for Texas because of Traylor can both coach at a high level and relate to his players, attributes that made McGuire so appealing when reports of his job offer emerged.

Traylor’s résumé backs up the former part of that argument, as he compiled a 175-26 record at Glimer that included state championships in 2004, 2009, and 2014, along with title game appearances in 2007 and 2012.

His first team went 6-4 and missed the playoffs, but every subsequent squad has won eight games and appeared in the postseason.

Last season, Texas cornerback signee Kris Boyd and his younger brother, 2016 linebacker Demarco Boyd, helped lead the state-title winning group for the Buckeyes. The squad rallied for a 35-25 win over West Orange-Stark in December to captured the Class 4A Division II state championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

The Buckeyes were behind by 18 points at halftime.

Kris Boyd signed with the Longhorns last week, while the younger Boyd has committed to Texas.

But Kris Boyd was the only East Texas signee for the Horns in the 2015 class compared to five from the region for Texas A&M, illustrating just how much help Texas needs in that area to solidify it as a pipeline to Austin.

Traylor, a 1986 Gilmer graduate, has been the school’s head coach and athletic director since 2000.

The Longhorns are also in search of a defensive line coach after Chris Rumph left for the University of Florida after one season in Austin.