Burnet football hires offensive coordinator

CAPTION: Tyler Fambrough is the new Burnet football program’s offensive coordinator. He and his wife, MaKayla, are planning to move to the area. Courtesy photo

The Burnet High School football team will have a new offensive player in 2026.

He is Tyler Fambrough, who was the quarterbacks coach, passing game coordinator and co-offensive coordinator at Cedar Park Vista for the last two years.

Before that, Fambrough spent a year as a senior offensive analyst at Florida Atlantic University and three years at the University of Texas as an offensive skill graduate assistant and an offensive and special teams student assistant.

“He has a really good pedigree,” Burnet head coach Ben Speer said. “He has a great story with lots of experience (but) not at this level. And that was a concern of mine.”

When the coaches talked, along with Burnet athletic director Grant Freeman, Speer asked if Fambrough could make the transition from working and living in a city like Cedar Park to Burnet.

“Honestly, I’ve kind of done a little bit of it all,” Speer recalled hearing. “‘This is where my wife and I want to be. We want to be in a small community, one high school.’ He married his high school sweetheart. They’re from Quanah is where they graduated.”

Fambrough earned a degree in kinesiology and health from Tarleton State University and attended the University of Texas.

While Texas football fans will recognize several of the players Fambrough has helped coach — Sam Ehlinger, Bijan Robinson and Xavier Worthy — what impressed the Burnet men is how Fambrough explained his offensive philosophies, how he coaches that unit, specifically the quarterback, and how he gets the best out of the players.

He knows that some Bulldogs will play on both sides of the ball, which is something he is familiar with because he watch his dad, who also is a coach, do it.

The two coaches are in lockstep about what the Burnet offense should be able to do.

“We need our offense to control the game,” Speer said. “If you control the clock, you control the game. And I said, ‘I need you to understand that coming here.’ He’s like ‘absolutely. I gotcha coach.’ I want to implement something the kids have confidence in themselves. Oftentimes our kids were confused. We had too many pre-snap penalties. I’m looking for stability on that side of the ball. When you control the clock, you control the game. In doing that you’re complementing your defense. We need to be balanced, but we need to establish the line of scrimmage, we need to shorten the game because our defense absolutely played lights out. When you lose by a touchdown or less, that reflects on the offense.”

In addition, Speer said his coordinator — no matter if he is on offense, defense or special teams — must be able to evaluate available personnel and put players in positions to succeed and be able to adapt quickly.

“You have to find those playmakers and get them the ball,” he said. “I hate hearing that a kid can’t do something. So what can he do? And let’s build around that.”

When word spread that Fambrough was joining the Burnet staff, many coaches reached out to Speer congratulating him on the hire.

Fambrough met the Bulldogs Feb. 18 and watched them as they went through a day of offseason work.

“They’re just super fired up, and I think he’s going to bring a sort of bounce to the offense, a little bit of consistency with it,” Speer said. “And with his experience — and he understands what I want to do offensively, and he’s totally onboard — it’s going to be so much fun. It’s pretty good to finally get it done, just get us moving on to the next step. We are tickled to death about our new coach.”