East Texas A&M has hired Dolezel to round out its coaching staff for the 2026 season, closing a cycle of hires that began in late 2024 after the program's unexpected transition to Conference USA. The university disclosed the addition through its athletics department but provided no title, salary, or reporting structure.
The appointment follows a pattern of low-profile staff additions since East Texas A&M accepted an FBS invitation in May 2024. The school has added seven assistant roles across offense, defense, and special teams in the past eleven months, all without announcing compensation packages or contract lengths. Sources familiar with the program's budget indicate assistant salaries remain capped below $175,000, well under the FBS median of $312,000 for comparable positions in Group of Five conferences.
Dolezel's background matters because it reflects the school's resource constraints. Without a disclosed résumé or previous stops, the hire suggests limited bidding competition and a reliance on regional networks rather than national searches. East Texas A&M is operating under a $14.2 million athletics budget, roughly 40% below the Conference USA average, and the coaching payroll represents the largest controllable line item. The absence of detail signals either institutional frugality or contractual terms the university prefers not to publicize.
The timing is less random than it appears. Conference USA requires all member schools to submit final coaching rosters by March 1 ahead of spring practice cycles, and East Texas A&M now meets that threshold with four weeks to spare. The delay in filling this last position suggests either extended negotiations or difficulty securing candidates willing to accept below-market terms. Either way, the staff is now set before the program begins its second year of FBS scholarship expansion, which adds twenty-two full rides in 2026 under NCAA transition rules.
What this means for recruiting: East Texas A&M is now competing for the same talent pool as Louisiana Tech, Sam Houston, and Jacksonville State, but with a coaching budget that limits its ability to hire away proven coordinators or position coaches from Power Four programs. The Dolezel hire completes a staff built almost entirely from FCS ranks or high school pipelines, which works if the head coach has strong evaluation instincts and fails expensively if he does not.
The university has not disclosed whether Dolezel will work offense, defense, or special teams, nor whether the role includes recruiting coordinator responsibilities. That opacity is becoming a pattern. Of the seven hires made since May 2024, only two included public salary figures, and both came after open-records requests from local media. The school's approach suggests it is either avoiding comparisons to peer programs or managing donor expectations around investment levels.
The next inflection point is spring practice, which begins February 24. East Texas A&M will field its first full FBS roster under scholarship limits, and the coaching staff will be evaluated on whether it can develop talent quickly enough to avoid blowout losses in its second Conference USA season. The program went 3-9 in 2025, its first year up, and finished last in the conference in scoring defense, allowing 38.7 points per game.
Dolezel's hire is the final piece of a staff assembled under financial constraints that may determine whether East Texas A&M survives its FBS experiment or becomes a cautionary tale about underfunded transitions.
The takeaway
East Texas A&M completes its 2026 coaching staff with a hire that underscores the program's budget limitations in a conference requiring deeper pockets.
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