Marvin Kristynik

Kristynik was a standout quarterback for Bay City High School who led his team to the AAA state playoffs.

Kristynik's older brother David had been the starting center at Texas from 1959–61,{{cite news |last=Land |first=Charlie |date=6 Dec 1964 |title=Meet the Longhorns |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19641206&id=VxAdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CJsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5634,835238 |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |location=Tuscaloosa Alabama |accessdate=12 September 2014 }} and his younger brother Paul played quarterback and defensive back for Texas from 1967 to 1969.

Recruited as a quarterback, Kristynik was quickly moved to wingback on the 1961 freshman team. He redshirted the 1962 season and then was moved back to quarterback.{{cite news |last=Black |first=John |date=1976-12-12 |title=Krystinik Remembers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/23471332/ |newspaper=The Baytown Sun |location=Baytown, TX |accessdate=2014-09-17 }}

As the third-string quarterback in 1963, Kristynik saw minimal play during Texas' first national championship season, getting into 6 games including the de facto National Championship game between #1 Texas and #2 Navy.

In 1964, Jim Hudson was expected to be the starting quarterback, but frequent injuries to Hudson's knee gave Kristynik the chance to take over. Kristynik started the first game of the season against Tulane and then replaced Hudson the following week when Hudson was injured on the Longhorn's first scoring play.{{cite news |last=Warden |first=Lincoln |date=10 February 1964 |title=65,300 EXPECTED FOR ARMY‐TEXAS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/02/65300-expected-for-armytexas.html?_r=1 |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, NY |accessdate=15 September 2014 }}{{cite news |date=1964-09-28 |title=Texas Loses Its Co-Captain Hudson With Knee Injury |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/9611828 |newspaper=Del Rio News Herald |location=Del Rio, TX |accessdate=2014-09-16 }} Kristynik started for the rest of the season and led the team to within 1 play of repeating as national champions. Though was not much of a passer, Kristynik ran the option almost perfectly. By early October, the Longhorns had won 4 straight games and risen to #1 in both major polls, beating a #10 ranked Army along the way. But against #8 Arkansas they fell behind by 14 points before scoring two fourth-quarter touchdowns. Texas opted to play for the win, and on what would have been a game-winning 2 point conversion pass, Krystynik's pass was batted down, and Texas lost 14-13. Texas went on to win every other game that year, with Krystynik leading a 75-yard fourth quarter comeback drive against Baylor. In the 1965 Orange Bowl, the first ever bowl game played in prime time, Krystynik was replaced by Hudson early in the 2nd quarter when he failed to get the offence going and Hudson engineered a victory over National Champion and #1 Alabama and their quarterback Joe Namath.{{cite web |url=http://www.barkingcarnival.com/2008/09/13/1965-orange-bowl-texas-vs-alabama-college-football-goes-primetime |title=1965 Orange Bowl, Texas vs. Alabama: College Football Goes Primetime |last1=srr50 |date=2008-09-13 |website=barkingcarnival.com |accessdate=2014-09-17}}

In 1965, with Hudson graduated, Kristynik started every game in a disappointing 6-4 season. Texas started the season ranked #2 in the country and rose to #1 before dropping a road game to #3 Arkansas. The Longhorns then dropped 3 of their next 4 games to unranked opponents Rice, TCU and SMU. It would be 25 years before Texas again lost to Rice or TCU, and they've never lost to both of them in the same year since. When the season was over, Kristynik played his last game in the 1966 Hula Bowl backing up Tommy Wilson on the losing South team.

He finished with a record of 15-5 as a starting quarterback.

After graduation, Kristynik was hired as a coach of the Mississippi State freshman football team.{{cite journal |author= |title=Corral |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36 |journal=The Alcalde |location=Austin, TX |date= May 1967 |accessdate=2014-09-15 }} The following year, he moved to the coaching staff at Tulane under former Longhorn assistant Jim Pittman, where he helped Tulane win the 1970 Liberty Bowl. He then followed Pittman to TCU from 1971-1973, staying on after Pittman's death on the sidelines, but leaving when Billy Tohill was fired.{{cite press release |author= |title=2009 TCU Football Media and Recruiting Guide |url=http://issuu.com/tcu_athletics/docs/09_tcu_fb_mg/74 |date=2009 |accessdate=2014-09-15}} He moved on to the University of Texas at El Paso where he became the offensive coordinator and offensive backfield coach.{{cite news |author= |date=1974-08-01 |title= Kristynik Named To Staff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/11966492/ |newspaper=The Mexia Daily News |location=Mexia, TX |accessdate=15 September 2014 }} In 1975, he left his position at UTEP to take a job with the Coaches Insurance Assn., of Rosenberg, Texas, saying that the only way he'd return to coaching would be for a head coaching job.{{cite news |author= |title= Kristynik Leaves UTEP Coaching Job |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/67435745/ |newspaper=El Paso Herald-Post |location=El Paso, TX |date=1973-05-23 |accessdate=2014-09-15 }}

In 1975, after leaving coaching, Kristynik founded a Richmond, TX based financial planning, insurance and brokerage company called Marvin Kristynik and Associates.

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