The GoGo offense is coming to Boulder.

According to multiple reports, Deion Sanders is set to hire Sacramento State head coach Brennan Marion as Colorado’s offensive coordinator after the Buffaloes boasted the second-worst offense in the Big 12.

Marion is coming off a 7-5 season with the Hornets at the FCS level, his first as a head coach, and the 38-year-old is best known for his innovative GoGo offense that he created early in his coaching career.

Once a star wide receiver at Tulsa, Marion’s NFL career ended before it really began as he suffered a torn ACL in his first training camp with the Miami Dolphins after going undrafted.

Marion started his coaching career shortly after in 2011 and he’s worked his way up from a high school position coach to now an offensive coordinator in a Power Four conference.

The Pittsburgh-area native was rumored to be a candidate for the CU offensive coordinator job after the 2021 season, when Karl Dorrell was still the head coach. Current Valor Christian head coach Mike Sanford wound up getting the job over Marion, who was then the wide receivers coach at Pittsburgh.

Marion first became a play-caller at the college level in 2017 when he was the offensive coordinator at Howard, where he helped the Bison to one of the biggest upsets in college football history as they beat UNLV 43-40 as 45-point underdogs. Marion spent two years at Howard before spending the 2019 season as the offensive coordinator at William & Mary.

The following three seasons, Marion went back to being a wide receivers coach and worked his way from Hawaii to Pitt to Texas before ultimately getting another chance to call plays, fittingly for a UNLV program he once defeated.

Marion helped the Rebels win 20 games over two seasons as offensive coordinator, where his offense ranked first and second, respectively, in points per game in the Mountain West.

This past season, his Sacramento State team averaged 425 yards per game and nearly 34 points per game using his now well-known GoGo offense that emphasizes unique formations and deception to create explosive plays in the run and pass game.

Marion will have plenty to work with in Boulder, barring any surprise departures, with quarterback Julian Lewis, left tackle Jordan Seaton and wide receiver Omarion Miller as key building blocks for any offensive scheme.

He replaces longtime NFL coach Pat Shurmur, whose contract expires at the end of this year. He spent the last two years leading the CU offense before reportedly being stripped of play-calling duties midway through the 2025 season.