Matt Rhule is not the only loss from the Baylor coaching staff that the Bears are expected to experience.

Following the three-year Baylor head coach, defensive coordinator Phil Snow is expected to join Rhule's staff with the Carolina Panthers, according to a Thursday evening report from Ian Rapoport of NFL Network and NFL.com.

Snow, 64, has been by Rhule's side as his defensive coordinator since he was at Temple from 2013-16.

A veteran coach with NFL experience that includes a stint as an assistant with the Detroit Lions from 2005-08, Snow appears set to follow Rhule once more and head back into the league.

One of the five finalists for the 2019 Broyles Award, which annually recognizes the top assistant in college football, Snow had Baylor atop the Big 12 defenses.

Snow's defense has been behind Baylor's recent resurgence, allowing 30 points or more in just two games in the offensive-minded Big 12.

The Bears boasted the No. 19 scoring defense, giving up 19.8 points per game, which led the conference.

"They said we could not play defense in the Big 12 — well, you can play defense in the Big 12," Snow said Dec. 29 before Baylor's 26-14 loss to Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. "... You can play. And the better players you get, the better you play. Now, we did tweak our system a little bit to play in the Big 12 and I think it helped us. There's some things we did schematically. Put guys in the right spots and did some things. And Georgia will try to take advantage of that, too. They'll probably try to run the football against us because we have eight guys in a two-point stance that aren't real big. So we'll see if that holds up against Georgia's offensive line. But, no, I think you need good players. You need to put them in the right spot."

As the Bears start their search to replace Rhule, three-year associate head coach and defensive line coach Joey McGuire is one staffer that gained immediate support from several current players for job.

"I'll say this — I'd recommend most of the guys on our staff," said Rhule, whom the Panthers introduced Wednesday. "But certainly, Joey as well. And at the end of the day, Baylor didn't have this turnaround, which — not many teams in history have gone from 11 losses to 11 wins so quickly. That's not a function of Matt Rhule. That's a function of the process that was put in place. And I think our players, more than anything, they believe in that process. They believe in carrying the jugs. They believe in practicing a certain way. They believe in all those things. And when you know that something works, you don't want to stray away from it. So I know those players know that Joey or any of the coaches on our staff would do and amazing job of just continuing the process and making it better, because, as you heard me say many times, my expectation was to be better next year than this year and I think that that's what the process would do. It would just keep elevating this team and Baylor would be right back where they should be next year."