Mack Brown

ack Brown enters his 14th season as the head coach of the Texas Longhorns. With a mark at Texas of 133-34 (.796), the 2008 Bobby Dodd Mack Brown is the only active coach in NCAA National Coach of the Year and the 2009 Big 12 Coach of the Year has Division I-A who has led his teams to nine or more Melevated the Longhorns program to new heights. the 2005 Paul W. “Bear” Bryant National Coach of the Year award winner, and wins in 14 of the last 15 seasons. coach of the 2005 BCS National Champions, he is one of a handful of coaches in the clearly energetic, thoughtful, engaging and enthusiastic. That passion has helped the history of college football to lead two separate programs to a Top Five national finish. Longhorns sign some of the nation’s finest recruiting classes year in and year out, a member of the Longhorn Hall of Honor, Brown is the only the second coach while raising the enthusiasm and support for Texas football to an all-time high. in UT history to reach the 100-win plateau at Texas, joining Darrell Royal. He also Beginning with an eight-city speaking tour of Texas in 1998 – which turned into became one of only six active coaches at NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) a revival as thousands of fans poured into crowded rooms to hear him speak – Brown schools who have won 100 games at their current school. Of the 69 coaches that have rapidly invigorated the mood and spirit of the UT faithful and hasn’t missed a beat ever won 100 games at the same FBS school, Brown is the 12th fastest to reach the since. century mark (124 games) and the fourth-fastest among active coaches. In 2008, he Brown reunited the Longhorns lettermen, welcoming any and all to practices reached 200 career victories, making him just the 19th coach who has spent at least and began a lettermen’s reunion and golf tournament that has grown immensely 10 years at an FBS school to do so. each spring. Thousands of former lettermen and their families return to campus Brown’s fundamental football philosophy is basic. It is built on a rock-solid, for the annual UT Spring Jamboree that Brown has turned into a weekend event in attacking defense and a pro-style offense combined with a team-first family philoso- Austin. The Jamboree features a lettermen’s golf outing and reunion to go along with phy. His “one heartbeat” belief of developing talent and leadership within a family pregame festivities and the Orange-White scrimmage. The weekend has set atten- atmosphere has established a consistency of success matched by few. dance records each year, topping out at 44,250 in 2010. Brown also has added a Fan the only team in the nation to record at least 10 wins nine times in the last 10 Appreciation Day in the fall. years, including a string of nine straight that is the second-longest streak in NCAA “Mack has helped bring back the pride in Texas Football,” former Longhorns history, Brown’s squad has been the best in the country during the first decade of the All-American and NFL great Tommy Nobis said. “Tradition is what makes the col- 21st century. In that time, his Longhorns have won seven of nine bowl games, includ- lege game so exciting, and Mack is doing a great job getting everyone excited about ing a stretch of five straight for the first time in school history, and have recorded at wearing the burnt orange and white and being a Longhorn again.” least 11 victories on six occasions. In addition, they have finished in the nation’s Top Brown also quickly built two other important bridges — one with legendary Six six times since 2000 and in the Top 10 seven of the last 10 seasons. Texas is also former head coach Darrell Royal and the other with the important constituency of the only team in the country to post nine or more victories in 14 out of the past 15 seasons. But excellence and consistency are nothing new to the coaching veteran of 39 years, including 28 as a head coach. Establishing stability has been a trademark of Brown’s career, highlighted by his success at North Carolina and Texas. He rebuilt UNC after a series of disappointing seasons and turned it into a nationally-elite program. At Texas, he has taken a program that had suffered through six non-winning (five los- ing) seasons in the 12 years prior to his arrival, including a 4-7 record in 1997, and led it to the 2005 National Championship, another BCS Championship Game appearance in 2009 and three BCS Bowl victories. Brown’s squads have registered nine-plus victory seasons in 14 out of the past 15 seasons, winning seasons in 20 out of the past 21 seasons and 18 bowl games in the past 19 seasons. He also has guided his squads to national Top 25 finishes in 14 out of the past 15 seasons, which includes 13 Top 15 rankings. Brown stands alone as the only coach in NCAA Division I-A with nine-plus wins in 14 out of the past 15 seasons. His 20 winning seasons in the last 21 years is the longest active streak in the nation and his 18 bowl games in the last 19 seasons is 2008 Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year tied for the longest active streak in the nation. His 153 wins in the last 15 years are the most nationally as are his 200 victories since 1990. COACHING CONSISTENCY Fresh off a season that saw North Carolina finish 11-1 and fourth nationally (USA Today/CNN), Brown was hired as the 28th head coach in the storied history of Coaches with 20 Winning Seasons IN THE LAST 21 YEARS Texas football on Dec. 4, 1997. He immediately developed a plan of attack, hiring a MACK BROWN______TEXAS/NORTH CAROLINA staff of veteran coaches who had familiarity with the Southwest. Brown has worked to Frank Beamer______Virginia Tech keep the foundation of that group intact and linked tradition with winning, education and entertainment. From his first season, he steadily has restored pride in one of col- Coaches with 18 bowl appearances IN THE LAST 19 YEARS lege football’s most historic programs and put the swagger back in being a Longhorn. Brown has brought enthusiasm back to the UT program while wowing every- MACK BROWN______TEXAS/NORTH CAROLINA one from recruits to supporters and alumni. His down-home wit and wisdom are Frank Beamer______Virginia Tech COACHING CONSISTENCY NCAA Division I-A head coaches with at least nine victories in 14 of last 15 seasons HEAD Coach (Schools) 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 total (PCT.) Mack Brown (Texas/North Carolina) 10-2 10-1 9-3 9-5 9-3 11-2 11-2 10-3 11-1 13-0 10-3 10-3 12-1 13-1 153-37 (.805)

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“Our goal is to win championships with nice kids MACK BROWN AT-A-GLANCE who are graduating. We may be in the entertainment Hometown Cookeville, Tenn. business on the weekends, but we are in the High school Putnam County College Florida State ’74 education business during the week.” Graduate degree Southern Mississippi ’76 — Mack Brown Year in coaching 38th Wife Sally Texas high school coaches. Children Matt, Katherine, Barbara, Chris “Mack has done everything right from the first day he hit town,” Royal said. “He has established strong ties with the high school coaches, built a tremendous bond MACK BROWN YEAR-BY-YEAR with the lettermen and gained unbelievable support. Record at Texas 13 years/133-34 (.796) “With all of the great things he has done in public relations, what people have 2010 texas 5-7 learned is that he can coach, too. He is a dedicated football man and has assembled 2009 texas (AP: #2; USA Today: #2) 13-1 BCS an outstanding staff. Together, they organize all the facets of the job. Talk about ‘not 2008 texas (AP: #4; USA Today: #3) 12-1 Fiesta leaving a stone unturned’ … he turned over every rock as fast as he could. A major 2007 texas (AP: #10; USA Today: #10) 10-3 holiday state official in North Carolina told one of our top people Mack could be elected gov- 2006 texas (AP: #13; USA Today: #13) 10-3 alamo ernor, and he wasn’t kidding. Mack is that strong with people.” 2005 texas (AP: #1; USA Today/ESPN: #1) 13-0 Rose (BCS) the union with Royal, whom Brown idolized as a young player in high school, 2004 texas (AP: #5; USA Today/ESPN: #6) 11-1 Rose has been a meaningful relationship for both men. Royal regularly participates in team events and has access to an office Brown had built for him in the Moncrief-Neuhaus 2003 texas (AP: #12; USA Today/ESPN: #11) 10-3 holiday Athletics Complex. 2002 texas (AP: #6; USA Today/ESPN: #7) 11-2 Cotton “Mack’s like the Darrell Royal of the 21st century,” UT All-American and 2002 2001 texas (AP: #5; USA Today/ESPN: #5) 11-2 holiday College Football Hall of Fame inductee Jerry Sisemore said. “He’s hard-working and 2000 texas (AP: #12; USA Today/ESPN: #12) 9-3 holiday has a great concern for his athletes. The coaches and players work hard and support 1999 texas (AP: #21; USA Today/ESPN: #23) 9-5 Cotton one another and that’s exactly how Coach Royal ran things. Mack’s the real deal and 1998 texas (AP: #15; USA Today/ESPN: #16) 9-3 Cotton it’s been fun to watch him build the program.” 1997 north Carolina (AP: #6; USA Today/ESPN: #4) 10-1 gator an enthusiastic supporter of tradition, Brown is just as passionate in his appre- 1996 north Carolina (AP: #10; USA Today/CNN: #10) 10-2 gator ciation of high school coaches, a group he treats with the utmost respect. The gre- 1995 north Carolina 7-5 Carquest garious coach has engaged the proud Texas high school coaching community. Brown 1994 north Carolina 8-4 sun invites every high school staff to visit UT practices and rapidly built powerful bonds 1993 north Carolina (AP: #19; USA Today/CNN: #21) 10-3 gator in that community. UT’s high school coaches clinic has gone from a couple hundred 1992 north Carolina (AP: #19; USA Today/CNN: #18) 9-3 peach coaches prior to his arrival to more than a thousand and become one of the state’s 1991 north Carolina 7-4 most popular spring events. 1990 north Carolina 6-4-1 “I have never seen anyone make friends better or quicker with the high school 1989 north Carolina 1-10 coaching community,” said Eddie Joseph, former executive VP of the Texas High 1988 north Carolina 1-10 School Coaches Association. “Mack is amazing. He has the ability to make everyone 1987 tulane 6-6 indep. feel at ease around him and makes the coaches from junior high on up feel comfort- 1986 tulane 4-7 able. I think the thing that makes him so great for the coaches to work with is that he 1985 tulane 1-10 has a passion for high school coaches. He has a great deal of respect for the coaches.” 1984 oklahoma Offensive Coordinator with his team, the message was clear from the first meeting on the evening of 1983 appalachian State 6-5 Dec. 4, 1997. He did not believe in rebuilding. He believed in winning. The standard 1982 LSU Quarterback Coach was simple. He expected that, together, he and the team would have fun. He expected 1981 iowa State Offensive Coordinator that, together, he and the team would do things the right way. He expected that, 1980 iowa State Offensive Coordinator together, he and the team would win. Each year, Brown has built on that foundation 1979 iowa State Assistant Coach (Wide Receivers) while accomplishing feats not seen in Austin in decades. 1978 Memphis State Assistant Coach (Wide Receivers) Brown’s 12 consecutive seasons of at least nine wins are a UT first, as are his back- 1977 southern Mississippi Assistant Coach (Wide Receivers) to-back 11-win campaigns (2001-02, 2004-05, 2008-09), nine 10-victory seasons in a 1976 southern Mississippi Assistant Coach (Wide Receivers) row, and three 12-win seasons (2005, ‘08, ‘09). Texas has also set a school record with 1975 southern Mississippi Assistant Coach (Wide Receivers) a streak of 12 straight bowl berths in Brown’s time, bettering the nine straight bowl 1974 Florida State Student Coach (Wide Receivers) games from 1977-85. UT has produced a streak of Top 25 finishes for 12 years in a row, 1973 Florida State Student Coach (Wide Receivers) a first since the Horns earned eight final Top 25 rankings in a row from 1968-75. The Overall Record 27 years/219-108-1 (.669) Longhorns also created a streak of 10 straight Top 13 finishes, which is a UT record. The Horns have claimed or shared the Big 12 South Division title in six of the last 13 years, including four conference championship game berths and two Big 12 titles. “As a parent, when my son is 18 years old, and if he chooses in 13 seasons, Brown’s Longhorns squads have featured a Heisman Trophy win- to play football and somebody comes to the door to talk ner, two runners-up and a third-place finisher, three Maxwell Award winners, three WCFF Player of the Year Award winners, two Doak Walker Award winners, two to him about molding him for the next four or five years, I Thorpe Award winners, two Nagurski Trophy winners, a Butkus Award winner, a want it to be Coach Brown or Coach Royal. I know that these Lombardi Award winner, two Manning Award winners, a Hendricks Award winner, parents, when they meet Coach Brown, don’t have any two Draddy/Campbell Trophy winners, 51 All-Americans, 64 first-team All-Big 12 selections, five Big 12 Offensive Players of the Year, five Big 12 Defensive Players of question that their son is going to be guided, molded and the Year and 10 Big 12 Freshman of the Year honorees. led in a way that they’ll be proud of.” During that time, UT has established one of the nation’s premier offensive — Doug English, former Longhorns All-American attacks, while rejuvenating a once struggling Longhorns’ defense into one of the nation’s best. and NFL All-Pro 80 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Mack Brown

trophy time did you know? Brown’s winners, finalists and semifinalists Mack Brown joined John Robinson (USC) and Dan McCarney (Iowa State) Heisman Trophy Hendricks Award as the only head coaches in NCAA Division I-A history who have coached a RB Ricky Williams___1998______Winner DE Brian Orakpo____2008______Winner 3,000-yard passer (Colt McCoy 2007-09 / Vince Young 2005 / Chris Simms, QB Colt McCoy_ ____2008____Runner-up De sergio Kindle_ ___2009______Finalist 2002 / Major Applewhite, 1999), 2,000-yard rusher (Ricky Williams, 1998) and QB Vince Young_____2005____Runner-up De tim Crowder_ ___2006______Finalist 1,000-yard receiver (Roy Williams, 2002, 2003 / Kwame Cavil, 1999 / Wane McGarity, 1998) in a season. QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009___ Third place DE Cory Redding____2002______Finalist Defensively, Brown has transformed a unit that ranked 85th nationally in total Maxwell Award Lombardi Award defense in 1997 into a group that led the nation in total defense (236.2 ypg) and led QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009______Winner DE Brian Orakpo____2008______Winner the Big 12 in rushing (89.5 ypg), passing (146.7 ypg) and scoring (13.7 ppg) defense QB Vince Young_____2005______Winner OL Justin Blalock____2006______Finalist in 2001. That came on the heels of a pair of seasons that saw UT rank sixth nation- RB Ricky Williams___1998______Winner DT Rodrique Wright_ 2005______Finalist ally in total defense (286.7 ypg) in 1999 and seventh (278.3 ypg) in 2000. The 2008 QB Colt McCoy_ ____2008______Finalist LB Derrick Johnson__2004______Finalist DE Cory Redding____2002______Finalist defense also led the Big 12 in total defense, scoring defense and rushing defense (third Walter Camp Player of the Year De greg Ellis______1997______Finalist NCAA), while the 2009 unit led the nation in rushing defense (72.4 ypg) and was QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009______Winner De sam Acho______2010___ Semifinalist third in total defense (251.9/first Big 12). The aggressive defensive style of the Brown QB Colt McCoy_ ____2008______Winner OT Leonard Davis_ __2000___ Semifinalist era has seen the Horns more than double their production in sacks and tackles for RB Ricky Williams___1998______Winner DT Casey Hampton_ _2000___ Semifinalist loss and significantly increase the number of turnovers forced in the last 12 seasons compared to the 12 years prior to his arrival. In 2008, Texas led the nation in sacks Associated Press Player of the Year Lott Trophy and then tied for second in 2009, a year it also led the nation in turnovers gained and RB Ricky Williams___1998______Winner De sam Acho______2010______Finalist interceptions. DE Brian Orakpo____2008______Finalist on offense, the Longhorns have set 136 school records and featured the school’s Cingular/ABC Sports Player of the Year LB Derrick Johnson__2004______Finalist only 3,000-yard passers (Colt McCoy, 2007, 08, 09/Vince Young, 2005/Chris Simms, QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009______Winner De sam Acho______2009___ Semifinalist 2002/Major Applewhite, 1999), 2,000-yard rusher (Ricky Williams, 1998), 1,000- QB Vince Young_____2005______Winner yard receivers (Quan Cosby, 2008/Jordan Shipley, 2008, 09/Roy Williams, 2002, 03/ RB Cedric Benson_ __2004______Winner Manning Award Kwame Cavil, 1999/ Wane McGarity, 1998) and 1,000-yard passer/rusher (Vince QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009______Winner Young, 2004 and 05) in a season. In 2008, Cosby and Shipley combined to become the Sporting News Player of the Year QB Vince Young_____2005______Winner first duo in school history and just the 11th in NCAA history to each have 85-plus QB Colt McCoy_ ____2008___ Co-Winner QB Colt McCoy_ ____2008______Finalist catches and 1,000-plus receiving yards in the same season. UT became just the RB Ricky Williams___1998______Winner Davey O’Brien Award second team in NCAA Division I-A history to boast a 2,000-yard rusher and passer Chevrolet Offensive Player of the Year QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009______Winner as well as a 1,000-yard receiver in 1998. In his career at Texas alone, Brown became QB Colt McCoy_ ____2008______Winner QB Vince Young_____2005______Winner one of just three head coaches in NCAA RB Ricky Williams___1998______Winner QB Colt McCoy_ ____2008______Finalist In 13 seasons under Division I-A history to lead a player to a QB Colt McCoy_ ____2006___ Semifinalist Mack Brown, Texas has … 3,000-yard passing season, a 2,000-yard Nagurski Trophy QB Chris Simms____ 2001, ’02___Semifinalist rushing season and a 1,000-yard receiv- 4• DE Brian Orakpo____2008______Winner QB Major Applewhite_ 1999____ Semifinalist Won its first National Championship ing season. since 1970 LB Derrick Johnson__2004______Winner Texas also has re-established its Johnny Untias Golden Arm Award 4•Won three BCS bowls and appeared in two home field advantage and, as a result, Biletnikoff Award QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009______Winner National Championship Games dominance under Brown. In his 13 sea- WR Jordan Shipley_ __2009______Finalist sons, the Longhorns have increased their WR Quan Cosby_ ____2008___ Semifinalist Outland Trophy 4•Posted 12 consecutive seasons of at least season ticket sales by nearly 45,000, up WR Roy Williams___ 2002, ‘03___Semifinalist OL Justin Blalock____2006______Finalist nine wins at UT for the first time in school to a school-best 84,071 in 2010, and set WR Kwame Cavil_ ___1999___ Semifinalist LB Derrick Johnson__2004______Finalist history school attendance records while playing OT Leonard Davis_ __2000______Finalist in front of sellout crowds in 65 of the Butkus Award OL Derrick Dockery__2002___ Semifinalist 4•Recorded at least 10 wins for nine straight last 66 home games and have attracted LB Derrick Johnson__2004______Winner DT Casey Hampton_ _2000___ Semifinalist seasons (second-longest streak in NCAA his- LB sergio Kindle_ ___2009______Finalist tory) the top 10 crowds in UT history. With a LB Derrick Johnson__2003______Finalist Thorpe Award full house on hand the past 13 seasons, LB Kivuusama Mays_ _1997______Finalist CB aaron Ross______2006______Winner 4•Established itself as the only team UT has gone 68-11 in games at Darrell K LB Keenan Robinson_ 2010___ Semifinalist S Michael Huff_ ___2005______Winner nationally to win at least nine games in from Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, includ- LB Derrick Johnson__2002___ Semifinalist s earl Thomas_____2009______Finalist 1998-2009. ing a 39-7 mark in Big 12 home games. LB D.D. Lewis______2001___ Semifinalist CB Quentin Jammer__2001______Finalist At one point, UT had a streak of 21 4•Earned or shared six Big 12 South Division LB Brian Simmons___1996___ Semifinalist CB Dré Bly______1996, ’97_ ___ Finalist consecutive victories (third-longest in titles and won two conference titles CB nathan Vasher___2003___ Semifinalist UT history) and the longest for UT since Draddy Trophy/Campbell Trophy CB Rod Babers______2002___ Semifinalist 4•Posted 10 straight Top 13 finishes for the it won 42 straight from 1968-76 (No. 6 in De sam Acho______2010______Winner first time in UT history NCAA history). The Longhorns also set C Dallas Griffin_ ___2007______Winner Doak Walker Award the marks for the Big 12’s longest intra- QB Colt McCoy_ ____2009______Finalist RB Cedric Benson_ __2004______Winner 4•Featured a Heisman Trophy winner, 51 conference winning streak (21 games) RB Ricky Williams___1998______Winner All-Americans, 64 first-team All-Big 12 selec- and the longest intraconference road Lou Groza Award RB Ricky Williams___1997______Winner tions, five Big 12 Defensive Players of the winning streak (13). PK hunter Lawrence__2009____ Semifinalist RB Jamaal Charles___2007___ Semifinalist Year, five Big 12 Offensive Players of the Year texas has lost only 10 road games in PK Kris Stockton____2000___ Semifinalist RB hodges Mitchell__1999___ Semifinalist and 10 Big 12 Freshman of the Year honorees Mack Brown’s 12-year tenure with two Rimington Trophy 4•Featured the only 3,000-yard passers, of them coming in his first three games C Chris Hall______2009______Finalist 2,000-yard rusher, 1,000-yard receivers at UT. The Longhorns have won 44 of and 1,000-yard passer/rusher in a season in their last 49 true road games. The only school history losses during that stretch were a 42-38 shootout at Texas Tech in 2002, a 45-42 www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com 81 Head Coach

Griffin went on to earn UT’s first Campbell “Mack’s like the Darrell Royal of the 21st century. Trophy, which at the time was named the MACK BROWN’S He’s hard-working and has great concern for his Draddy Trophy. QB Colt McCoy was a ALL-AMERICANS finalist for that award in 2009 and recog- Texas players in bold athletes. The coaches and players work hard and nized as a National Football Foundation First-Team All-Americans support one another and that’s exactly how Scholar-Athlete, as were Griffin and Acho. C Chris Hall______2009 In 2008, RB Chris Ogbonnaya also earned De sergio Kindle______2009 Coach Royal ran things.” second-team academic All-America hon- WR Jordan Shipley______2009 — Jerry Sisemore, former UT All-American and ors. s earl Thomas______2009 NFL All-Pro offensive tackle alongside academics, Brown’s life QB Colt McCoy______2008, ‘09 skills program features numerous semi- DE Brian Orakpo______2008 nars to prepare student-athletes for life ot tony Hills______2007 defeat at Kansas State in 2006, a 38-30 loss at Texas A&M in 2007, a 39-33 loss with after football, while Longhorns players OL Justin Blalock______2006 one second remaining at No. 7 Texas Tech in 2008 and a 39-14 loss to KSU in 2010. make countless visits to area children’s CB aaron Ross______2006 The Horns set a UT-record streak with 17 consecutive road wins before falling to hospitals and serve as tutors and mentors S Michael Huff______2005 Kansas State in 2006. UT also won 12 consecutive road games from 2000-02. Texas is at schools across Austin. Never has that OT Jonathan Scott______2005 49-10 (.831) overall on the road and 41-6 (.872) versus unranked road foes during the been as evident as last season with Acho, DT Rodrique Wright_ ____2005 Mack Brown era. In fact, UT is currently riding a school-record non-conference road who was named the 2010 Wuerffel Trophy QB Vince Young______2005 winning streak of 11, which betters the previous mark of seven from 1956-63. Texas winner for all-around excellence, and the RB Cedric Benson______2004 has won 33 of its last 38 Big 12 Conference road games, including a league-record 13 2010 ARA Sportsmanship Award winner, LB Derrick Johnson___2003, ‘04 consecutive conference road wins from 2002-06. The Horns are 37-7 (.841) in league along with being selected as a member of OL Derrick Dockery______2002 road contests under Mack Brown. the AFCA Good Works Team. DE Cory Redding______2002 Brown’s on-the-field success has had an impact on the student-athletes’ future on the field, Brown has led the CB Quentin Jammer_ ____2001 opportunities as well. As of the 2011 NFL Draft, two of his Longhorns have been Longhorns to one of the best records in the OT Mike Williams______2001 selected in the first round in six of the past 11 drafts. When OT Mike Williams nation during his tenure, posting a 133-34 OT Leonard Davis______2000 (Buffalo Bills) and CB Quentin Jammer (San Diego Chargers) were selected fourth mark (.796) over 13 seasons, despite a dif- DT Casey Hampton____1999, 2000 and fifth, respectively, in 2002, it marked the first time in UT history that two ficult 5-7 season in 2010. Texas still ranked OG Ben Adams______1998 Longhorns were chosen among the first five overall picks. Brown’s Longhorns fea- sixth in the nation in total defense (300.2 OT Jay Humphrey______1998 tured a pair of first-round picks in 2004 when Roy Williams (seventh pick) was taken ypg) and pass defense (161.6 ypg) last RB Ricky Williams______1998 by the Detroit Lions and Marcus Tubbs was selected by the Seattle Seahawks (23rd year, while Acho, in addition to winning CB Dré Bly______1996, ’97 pick). The 2005 NFL Draft had Longhorns Cedric Benson (fourth pick) and Derrick the Campbell Trophy, Wuerffel Trophy De greg Ellis______1997 Johnson (15th pick) in the first round. In the 2006 NFL Draft, Vince Young (third and ARA Sportsmanship Award, was also LB Brian Simmons______1997 pick) and Michael Huff (seventh pick) were both first-round choices, and in 2007, named second-team All-America by the DT Marcus Jones______1995 Michael Griffin (19th pick) and Aaron Ross (20th pick) were selected in the opening Walter Camp Football Foundation and FS Bracey Walker______1993 round. third-team All-America by the Associated UT had four players selected in the first two rounds of the 2007 Draft with Justin Press. He was also named CFPA Defensive Freshman All-Americans Blalock and Tim Crowder chosen in the second round following Griffin and Ross. Lineman of the Year, was a finalist for s earl Thomas______2008 That marked the most Longhorns chosen in the first two rounds since 1982. Three the Lott Trophy, a semifinalist for the TE Jermichael Finley_____2006 members of his 1997 Carolina squad were picked in the first round of the 1998 NFL Lombardi Award and was a unanimous QB Colt McCoy______2006 Draft, which tied for the most of any collegiate program. first-team All-Big 12 selection. In addition ot adam Ulatoski______2006 in the 27 drafts during Brown’s time as a head coach, the NFL has picked 102 to Acho, junior LB Keenan Robinson was LB Rashad Bobino______2005 of his student-athletes, and he has had a player selected in 26 straight drafts. He has a semifinalist for the Butkus Award. DE Brian Orakpo______2005 had 19 players (15 from UT/four from UNC) selected in the first round in the last 14 Brown guided the 2009 Longhorns DT Frank Okam______2004 drafts. Over the past 14 years, Brown has had 65 players selected in the draft with 51 to Texas’ second National Championship OT Justin Blalock______2003 (78.5%) of those coming in the first four rounds. Game appearance in five years and also De tim Crowder______2003 with all of the success on the field, the primary emphasis has remained the same matched the school record of 13 wins. The DT Rodrique Wright_ ____2002 with Brown’s squads — maintaining a high level of achievement in the classroom lone loss came in the title game to No. 1 DB Michael Huff______2002 and in the community. Eighty percent of his players at North Carolina received their Alabama after QB Colt McCoy was injured RB Cedric Benson______2001 degrees and he has increased the pace at Texas, while more than a third of his players on the first series and did not return. LB Derrick Johnson______2001 at Texas have regularly earned 3.0 grade point averages and achieved spots on the Big Despite the loss of the national player of PK Dusty Mangum______2001 12 Commissioner’s and Athletics Director’s honor rolls. the year, Texas was within three points WR B.J. Johnson______2000 over the last five years, the success in the classroom has reached an all-time high. with the ball with just over three min- s Dakarai Pearson______2000 The Longhorns have led the Big 12 in academic all-conference selections in four of the utes remaining, and following the game, DE Kalen Thornton______2000 last five seasons, and in three of those have had equal or more first-team selections the polls kept the Longhorns ranked No. WR Roy Williams______2000 than all but two Big 12 schools have had total selections. 2 – their fourth Top Five ranking in six QB Major Applewhite_ ___1998 in 2010, DE Sam Acho became Texas’ second winner of the Campbell Trophy, years. They also completed their ninth- LB D.D. Lewis______1998 which has been likened to an “academic Heisman.” Acho also became the seventh consecutive 10-win season, which is the CB Dré Bly______1996 Longhorns to be named two-time first-team Academic All-America. Texas registered two first-team academic All-America honorees in Acho and OT Adam Ulatoski in 2009, after having also done so in 2007 with C Dallas Griffin and DT Derek Lokey. coaching success NCAA’S WINNINGEST COACHES NCAA Division I-A head coaching records since 1990 By victories last 15 years 1. Mack Brown, Texas/N. Carolina______153-37______.805 1. Mack Brown, Texas/UNC______200-60-1______.768 2. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech______147-47______.758 2. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech______187-75-1______.713 82 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Mack Brown

Ranked No. 2 in the country as defending National Champions, Texas lost to “Mack has done a great job recruiting with the high school No. 1 Ohio State in the second game of the year, but fought their way back to a No. 4 coaches, with the people on campus and the Longhorns let- national ranking before an injury to McCoy helped lead to narrow losses in the final termen. They are very proud that Mack Brown is the coach two games of the regular season. still, they bounced back with a come-from-behind victory over Iowa in the here, and for them to be in full support of his coaching abili- Alamo Bowl to earn a 10-3 record. The season included victories over both Oklahoma ties, is a tribute to him. I feel exactly the same way because and Nebraska, the two teams that played for the Big 12 championship, after the he has done a marvelous job and the best is yet to come.” Longhorns’ late season losses. Cornerback Aaron Ross won the Thorpe Award as the nation’s top defensive — Spike Dykes, former UT assistant coach back, and offensive lineman Justin Blalock was a finalist for both the Outland Trophy and the winningest head coach in Texas Tech history and the Lombardi Award. Ross and Blalock earned first-team All-America honors, while Hendricks Award finalist Tim Crowder and Lott Trophy semifinalist Michael second-longest streak in NCAA history. Griffin were recognized as second-team All-Americans. McCoy, a redshirt freshman, the Texas offense ranked third in scoring (39.3 ppg) and 22nd in passing offense earned National Freshman of the Year honors as he tied an NCAA record with 29 (273.6 ypg), while the defense led the nation in rushing defense (72.4 ypg), was third touchdown passes. in total defense (251.9 ypg) and 12th in scoring defense (16.7 ppg), along with leading Brown had the most successful season of his career in 2005, leading Texas to the nation in turnovers gained and interceptions, and ranking in the top 10 in sacks, its first National Championship since 1970. Texas made a return trip to the Rose TFL and pass efficiency defense. McCoy became UT’s 20th unanimous All-American Bowl for its first appearance in the BCS National Championship game, where the and won the Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Football Foundation National Player of Longhorns ended USC’s 34-game winning streak and extended their own winning the Year Award, Davey O’Brien Award, Manning Award and Unitas Golden Arm streak to 20 with a 41-38 victory. The team was led by Maxwell Award winner Award. He also became a two-time finalist for the Heisman Trophy. WR Jordan Vince Young. Young, who was also the Shipley was a consensus All-America honoree and a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, Heisman runner-up and Davey O’Brien turning it around while S Earl Thomas also earned consensus All-America honors and was a finalist for and Manning Award winner, finished his the Thorpe Award. Meanwhile, DE/LB Sergio Kindle became the first player in col- career as Texas’ all-time winningest quar- Appalachian State lege football history to be named a finalist for both the Butkus Award and Hendricks terback with a 30-2 record. Texas’ offense Pre-Brown Under Brown Award, and also was named first-team All-America, along with C Chris Hall who was set UT records in points scored (652) 1981: 3-7-1 1983: 6-5 a finalist for the Rimington Trophy. In addition, K Hunter Lawrence was a semifinal- and total yards (6,657), while ranking 1982: 4-7 ist for the Groza Award and DE Sam Acho was a semifinalist for the Lott Trophy. first in the nation in scoring (50.2 ppg), Tulane texas entered the 2008 season with less media acclaim than previous seasons, second in rushing (274.9 ypg) and third Pre-Brown Under Brown but by mid-season, a 45-35 win over No. 1 Oklahoma propelled the team to its own in total offense (512.1 ypg). Texas was also 1982: 4-7 1985: 1-10 No. 1 ranking. It marked the first regular-season No. 1 ranking for the program highly ranked on defense. Led by UT’s 1983: 2-9 1986: 4-7 since Oct. 8, 1984, and began the toughest four-game stretch in the history of college first-ever Thorpe Award winner Michael 1984: 3-8 1987: 6-6* football where the Longhorns would face a team ranked in the Top 11 in every game. Huff, the Longhorns finished sixth in scor- * led Tulane to just its fifth bowl game in more than 40 years. The team finished within one second of completing the gauntlet before falling at No. ing defense (16.4 ppg) and 10th in total 7 Texas Tech on the last play from scrimmage. defense (302.9 ypg). North Carolina Despite the difficult loss, the team rebounded to win all of its remaining games, in 2004, the Longhorns managed Pre-Brown Under Brown capped by a thrilling 24-21 win over No. 10 Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, providing their fourth consecutive 10-win season, 1984: 5-5-1 1988: 1-10 Texas a school-record fifth-consecutive bowl win, including three BCS bowls. The while defeating six teams ranked in either 1985: 5-6 1989: 1-10 Longhorns finished the season ranked No. 4 in the AP poll and No. 3 in the USA the AP Poll or ESPN/USA Today Poll. 1986: 7-4-1 1990: 6-4-1 Today Coaches Poll. It was also their third 11-win season in 1987: 5-6 1991: 7-4 1992: 9-3 on offense, Texas averaged 42.4 points per game (fifth NCAA), 475.8 total yards four years and was capped with Texas’ 1993: 10-3 (ninth NCAA) and 308.3 passing yards (seventh NCAA), led by McCoy, who set the first BCS selection and a 38-37 Rose Bowl 1994: 8-4 NCAA single-season record for completion percentage (77.6). McCoy earned first- Championship over No. 13 Michigan. 1995: 7-5 team All-America honors and was named the Walter Camp Football Foundation UT was led by All-Americans on both 1996: 10-2 Player of the Year and runner-up for the Heisman Trophy. On defense, Texas led the sides of the ball in senior running back 1997: 10-1 nation in sacks and led the Big 12 in scoring defense (18.8 ppg), total defense (342.9 and Doak Walker Award winner Cedric ypg) and rushing defense (83.5 ypg/third NCAA). DE Brian Orakpo became UT’s Texas Pre-Brown Under Brown+ 19th unanimous All-American and won the Nagurski Trophy, Lombardi Award and mack’s milestone 1996: 8-5 1998: 9-3 Hendricks Award. Shipley also earned third-team All-America honors, while WR With a victory against Texas A&M in 2008, 1997: 4-7 1999: 9-5 Quan Cosby was a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award. Mack Brown became the first head coach 2000: 9-3 2001: 11-2^* in 2007, the Longhorns capped their seventh consecutive 10-win season with a in UT history to reach the 200-victory 2002: 11-2^* 52-34 Holiday Bowl victory over No. 12 Arizona State, while also securing their fourth plateau (219-108-1/.669) during a career. 2003: 10-3* bowl win in consecutive years, a UT first. Brown became just the 19th coach, who has 2004: 11-1* spent at least 10 years at a NCAA Football the Longhorns finished the season with a No. 10 national ranking in both polls, 2005: 13-0*$ Bowl Subdivision (FBS) school, to win 200 marking the fifth time in seven seasons they had finished in the Top 10. 2006: 10-3* games and the seventh-youngest coach to along with Dallas Griffin winning the Draddy Trophy and the two academic 2007: 10-3* do so. He also is one of only three active 2008: 12-1* All-Americans, OT Tony Hills earned first-team All-America honors from the Walter coaches, who has spent at least five years Camp Football Foundation, RB Jamaal Charles was named a semifinalist for the Doak 2009: 13-1* at an FBS school, to reach the 200-victory 2010: 5-7 Walker Award, S Marcus Griffin earned All-America honors from ESPN.com and mark. In addition, Brown is one of only DT Frank Okam was named third-team All-America by The Associated Press. Texas six active coaches at FBS schools who have + best coaching start in school finished in the top 20 in both rushing defense (6th/93.4 ypg) and rushing offense won 100 games at their current school history (17th/207.5 ypg), while also finishing in the top 20 in total offense (13th/462.9 ypg) (133-34/.796). Of the 80 coaches that have ^ first back-to-back 11-win seasons and scoring offense (14th/37.2 ppg). ever won 100 games at a FBS school, Brown in school annals is the 12th fastest to reach the century mark * only team nationally with nine con- the 2006 Longhorn season continued the validation of a premier football pro- (124 games) and the fourth-fastest among gram that had achieved back-to-back Rose Bowl victories, including the BCS National secutive seasons of at least 10 wins active coaches. $ National Champions Championship. www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com 83 Head Coach

Benson and senior linebacker, Nagurski Trophy winner and Butkus Award winner Derrick Johnson. Behind Benson, the offense ranked second nationally in rushing “What makes Coach Brown so successful is the way he car- offense (299.2 ypg), seventh in total offense (464.4 ypg) and 12th in scoring offense ries himself. He’s a player’s coach. He gets very involved (35.3 ppg). The Longhorns rushed for over 300 yards six times, the most since 1977, and put up at least 400 yards in nine of their 12 games. with practice and really likes being around the guys. He with Johnson taking the lead, the defense ranked 18th nationally in scoring knows his stuff and works you hard, but no matter what is defense (17.9 ppg), 16th in rushing defense (107.4) and 32nd in turnover margin going on in your life, he’s a guy you can talk to.” (+5). They held teams to 14 points or less on six different occasions. Under his guidance in 2003, Texas rallied from a 4-2 start to post six straight — Quentin Jammer, Longhorns All-American cornerback victories and finished with a 10-3 record and No. 12 national ranking. The Longhorns and 2002 NFL first-round draft pick were led by a balanced offense and defense that was one of only four programs nationally that ranked among the NCAA’s top 25 in total offense and total defense. statistical categories. True freshman LB Derrick Johnson was tabbed The Sporting Texas averaged 232.5 rushing yards per game (8th NCAA) and produced its most News’ Freshman of the Year and named the Holiday Bowl Defensive MVP. yards on the ground (3,023) since 1977. It also averaged 206.6 passing yards per game offensively, Texas’ balanced attack was led by a passing game that posted, at the to mark just the third time in school history that the Horns averaged 200 yards rush- time, the fourth-most yards (3,003) on UT record and a scoring attack that ranked ing and passing in the same season. Led by its first-ever Butkus Award finalist and first in the Big 12 and sixth nationally (39.2 ppg). OT Mike Williams earned first-team consensus first-team All-American, LB Derrick Johnson, UT’s defense ranked 25th All-America honors and was joined by WR Roy Williams as first-team All-Big 12. nationally allowing 329.9 yards per game. True freshman RB Cedric Benson set freshman records for rushing yards (1,053) and Brown’s 2002 squad found itself once-again mentioned among the national title rushing TDs (12) en route to Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year honors. contenders until late in the season. With an 11-2 record and a No. 6 final ranking, in 2000, Brown’s youthful Longhorns overcame a pair of tough losses as well as the Horns posted back-to-back 11-win seasons for the first time in school history and injuries that sidelined its first, second and third-string tight ends and slowed its All- consecutive Top 10 finishes for the first time since 1977-78. Texas capped the year America candidate at defensive tackle — Shaun Rogers. Despite starting as many as with a 35-20 victory over LSU in the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns also won or shared five true freshmen and featuring a 44-man depth chart that included 36 underclass- the Big 12 South title for the third time in the last four seasons. men, UT rallied from a 3-2 start to run off six consecutive victories. UT lost a shootout Led by first-team All-American and Lombardi Trophy finalist DE Cory Redding with No. 8 Oregon in the Holiday Bowl and closed out the year with a 9-3 record (7-1, and first-team All-Big 12 performers LB Derrick Johnson and CB Rod Babers, the Big 12) and a final No. 12 national ranking, its best finish in the polls since 1983. Longhorns defense finished the year ranked among the nation’s top 16 for the fourth texas’ explosive offense ranked 14th nationally in total offense (439.0 ypg) and straight year. eighth in scoring (38.6 ppg.). RB Hodges Mitchell, a first-team All-Big 12 choice for on offense, QB Chris Simms and WR Roy Williams had record-setting years a second consecutive year, led the way. Mitchell rushed for 1,118 yards, and for the and RB Cedric Benson posted a second straight 1,000-yard rushing season. Williams second year in a row, he established himself as the only player in UT history to gain and consensus first-team All-American OL Derrick Dockery both earned first-team 1,000 rushing and 300 receiving yards in a season. His path was paved by consensus All-Big 12 honors as the Horns averaged 33.8 points per game (16th NCAA). first-team All-American and Outland Trophy finalist OT Leonard Davis. With the in 2001, Brown saw his efforts in rebuilding the UT program into a national loss of nearly every pass catcher from 1999, the greatest challenge Brown and his power reach new heights and provide promising hope for the future. The Longhorns offensive staff faced in 2000 was honing the skills of a stable of young wide receivers. came within three points of a possible berth in the National Championship game for That project was a success as true freshmen B.J. Johnson and Roy Williams rewrote the first time in decades. Texas opened the season with its first preseason Top Five the Longhorns record books while each earned second-team Freshman All-America ranking since 1983 and with wins in its final six games, claimed the Big 12 South title honors. for the second time. The Horns were ranked among the nation’s Top 10 in 16 of the texas’ revitalized defense was led by two-time first-team All-American and Big 17 polls in 2001 and only a narrow 39-37 defeat at the hands of No. 9 Colorado in 12 Defensive Player of the Year DT Casey Hampton. An Outland Trophy semifinalist the Big 12 Championship game prevented Brown’s team from likely playing for the and first-team All-America in 1999, Hampton became the first lineman in UT history national title. With a 47-43 victory against No. 21 Washington in the Holiday Bowl, to lead the team in tackles in back-to-back seasons and finished his career then ranked Texas posted a school record-tying 11 victories (11-2) for the first time since ‘83 and second on UT’s all-time tackles for loss list (54). He was joined by Jammer on the first- just the fifth time in school history. The win also secured the program’s first Top 10 team All-Big 12 unit, as Texas led the nation in pass efficiency defense (88.3 rating) finish since that year. and ranked seventh in total defense (278.3 ypg). Led by unanimous first-team All-American and UT’s first-ever Thorpe Award Despite the loss of Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams, All-Big 12 wide finalist CB Quentin Jammer and All-Americans LB D.D. Lewis and Redding, receiver Wane McGarity and four starters from a veteran offensive line, Brown’s 1999 the Longhorns topped the nation in total defense (236.2 ypg). Jammer, the first squad registered a 9-5 record and claimed the Big 12 South Division Championship. Longhorns’ defender since Jerry Gray in 1984 to earn unanimous first-team All- The offense set a school record with 3,580 passing yards and registered the second- America honors, and Lewis shared team MVP honors. The Longhorns were one of most total yards in school annals (5,336). Defensively, UT began its climb back among only two teams nationally that ranked among the NCAA’s top 10 in all five major the nation’s best, ranking sixth in total defense (286.7 ypg).

mack brown and the nfl draft (as of the 2010 NFL Draft) 4 Dating back to 1986 when he was the head coach at Tulane, Mack Brown has had a player selected in 26 straight NFL Drafts. In fact, Brown has had a player selected in the NFL Draft in 26 of the 27 drafts as a head coach. 4 Mack Brown has coached 19 players (15 Texas/four North Carolina) who have been drafted in the first round in the past 14 NFL drafts. 4 Mack Brown has coached a first-round selection in 11 of the last 16 NFL drafts. 4 Mack Brown has coached 65 NFL draft picks over the last 14 years. 4 Of Mack Brown’s 65 NFL draft picks the last 14 years, 51 picks have been chosen in the first four rounds of the drafts. 4 In 27 drafts as a head coach at Texas (1998-current), North Carolina (1988-97), Tulane (1985-87) and Appalachian State (1983), Mack Brown has seen 102 of his former players selected in the NFL Draft. MACK BROWN’S NFL DRAFT PICKS YEAR-BY-YEAR (as a head coach) 2011 (4 UT); 2010 (6 UT); 2009 (4 UT); 2008 (5 UT); 2007 (7 UT); 2006 (6 UT); 2005 (3 UT); 2004 (4 UT); 2003 (4 UT); 2002 (2 UT); 2001 (3 UT); 2000 (1 UT); 1999 (3 UT/6 UNC); 1998 (7 UNC); 1997 (5 UNC); 1996 (2 UNC); 1995 (5 UNC); 1994 (4 UNC); 1993 (4 UNC); 1992 (5 UNC); 1991 (1 UNC); 1990 (2 UNC); 1989 (3 UNC/2 Tulane); 1988 (2 Tul); 1987 (1 Tul); 1986 (1 Tul)

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wR Kwame Cavil set UT and Big 12 records with 100 receptions for 1,188 yards top active ncaa division I-A en route to second-team All-America and first-team All-Big 12 honors that year. coaching victory leaders Sophomore quarterback Major Applewhite set UT marks with 3,357 passing yards (Victories at NCAA Division I-A/FBS programs only) and 21 TDs while earning co-Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year recognition. Mitchell became the first back in UT history to rush for 1,000 yards and record 300 receiving 1. Joe Paterno, Penn State______401 yards en route to first-team All-Big 12 honors and earned a spot among the Dr Pepper 2. Mack Brown, Texas______213 Doak Walker Award semifinalists. OG Roger Roesler earned first-team All-Big 12 3. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech______198 recognition and third-team All-America honors. DE Aaron Humphrey, who posted 20 sacks in his two years under Brown and finished his career then ranked third on UT’s all-time TFLs list (50.5), also ranked big 12 active coaching victory leaders eighth on the Longhorns all-time sack chart (24.5) and earned Longhorns MVP hon- ors in 1999. DE Cedric Woodard, a 2000 NFL Draft pick of the Baltimore Ravens, had Head Coach (Years) Record 19 TFLs in 1999 and 40 for his career (No. 8 on UT’s all-time list at the time). 1. Mack Brown, Texas (27)______219-108-1 in 1998, running back Ricky Williams ran away with virtually every major col- 2. Gary Pinkel, Missouri (19)______150-86-3 lege football award. Williams claimed the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, Walter Camp and Associated Press Player of the Year honors and the Dr Pepper Doak Walker Award as Texas rebounded from a 4-7 season to finish 9-3 and ranked 15th Brown’s conference honor roll nationally. After starting the year with a 1-2 record, the Longhorns won six consecu- Big 12 Offensive First-Team All-Big 12 (cont.) tive games and eight of their final nine contests, including snapping No. 7 Nebraska’s Player of the Year OT Mike Williams______2001 47-game home winning streak with a 20-16 victory. Brown’s first UT team capped QB Colt McCoy______2009 OT Leonard Davis______2000 the year with a 38-11 victory against No. 25 Mississippi State in the Cotton Bowl, the QB Colt McCoy______2008 DT Casey Hampton______1999, 2000 QB Vince Young______2005_ RB hodges Mitchell______1999, 2000 Longhorns’ first New Year’s Day bowl victory since 1981. QB Major Applewhite______1999 QB Major Applewhite______1999 williams led the nation in rushing with a school-best 2,124 yards and set a RB Ricky Williams______1998 WR Kwame Cavil______1999 school record with 28 rushing TDs. The Longhorns tallied the fourth-most yards of OG Roger Roesler______1999 Big 12 Defensive Dt shaun Rogers______1999 offense in school history (5,177) at the time. WR Wane McGarity, TE Derek Lewis Player of the Year OG Ben Adams______1998 and offensive linemen Ben Adams and Jay Humphrey all earned first-team All-Big 12 DE Brian Orakpo______2008 OT Jay Humphrey______1998 honors for an offense that was among the best in UT history. Adams and Humphrey CB aaron Ross______2006 TE Derek Lewis______1998 also were tabbed first-team All-American. s Michael Huff______2005 WR wane McGarity______1998 LB Derrick Johnson______2004 RB Ricky Williams______1998 Defensively, the youthful Longhorns featured a predominantly underclassmen DT Casey Hampton______2000 unit but re-established themselves after ranking 85th in total defense (399.2 ypg) and First-Team All-ACC 104th in scoring defense (33 ppg) in 1997. ACC Defensive DB Dré Bly______1996, ’97 Born in Cookeville, Tenn., Brown was a three-sport star at Putnam County High Player of the Year De greg Ellis______1995, ’96, ’97 DT Marcus Jones______1995 DE Vonnie Holliday______1997 School, where he lettered three times in football. He went on to attend Vanderbilt LB Kivuusama Mays______1995, ’97 (1969-70) and graduated from Florida State. He lettered twice as a running back for First-Team All-Big 12 C Jeff Saturday______1996, ’97 the Seminoles (1972-73). An injury sidelined him for much of the 1973 season and De sam Acho______2010 DB Robert Williams______1997 QB Colt McCoy______2009 KR Leon Johnson______1996 that led to the start of his coaching career as he became a student coach. He completed WR Jordan Shipley______2009 TE Freddie Jones______1995, ’96 his bachelor’s degree in education in 1974. s earl Thomas______2009 QB Chris Keldorf______1996 Brown began his full-time coaching career in 1975 at Southern Mississippi, ot adam Ulatoski______2009 LB Brian Simmons______1996 where he worked with the receivers for three seasons. He earned a master’s degree in LB sergio Kindle______2008 DE Marcus Jones______1994, ’95 DT Roy Miller______2008 te greg DeLong______1994 administration from Southern Miss in 1976. Brown then coached the wide receivers DT Brian Orakpo______2008 ot ethan Albright______1993 at Memphis State in 1978 and at Iowa State in ‘79. He was promoted to offensive coor- ot adam Ulatoski______2008 RB Curtis Johnson______1993 dinator at Iowa State in 1980, and in his time at Ames, the Cyclones broke 17 school RB Jamaal Charles______2007 DB Bracey Walker______1993 and Big Eight Conference offensive records and produced league leaders in rushing s Marcus Griffin______2007 RB natrone Means______1991, ’92 ot tony Hills______2007 C Randall Parsons______1992 and total offense. Brown went on to lead the quarterbacks at LSU in 1982, when the OL Justin Blalock______2004, ’05, ’06 P Mike Thomas______1992 Tigers went 8-2-1 and played Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. De tim Crowder______2005, ‘06 OG Brian Bollinger______1991 in just his 10th season of full-time coaching, Brown had become a head coach, s Michael Griffin______2006 LB tommy Thigpen______1991 CB aaron Ross______2006 LB Dwight Hollier______1990 taking over the Appalachian State program in 1983. At the age of 32, he directed the C Lyle Sendlein______2006 og pat Crowley______1988, ’89 Mountaineers to their first winning record in four years with a 6-5 slate. After one OG Kasey Studdard______2006 DL Cecil Gray______1989 season, he left to become offensive coordinator at Oklahoma. In his only year on WR Limas Sweed______2006 C Jeff Garnica______1988 Barry Switzer’s staff, the Sooners were 9-2-1, won the Big Eight title and earned a og will Allen______2005 RB Kenard Martin______1988 CB Cedric Griffin______2005 berth in the Orange Bowl. LB aaron Harris______2005 Big 12 Offensive Brown helped Oklahoma develop its best passing attack in years, as he coached s Michael Huff______2004, ’05 Freshman of the Year quarterbacks Danny Bradley, a first-team All-Big Eight selection, and Troy Aikman, OL Jonathan Scott______2004, ’05 QB Colt McCoy______2006 TE David Thomas______2005 RB Jamaal Charles______2005 a three-time Super Bowl Champion signal caller with the Dallas Cowboys. DT Rodrique Wright______2005 QB Vince Young______2003 Brown became head coach at Tulane in 1985 and quickly went about rejuvenat- QB Vince Young______2005 RB Cedric Benson______2001 ing the Green Wave’s sagging football fortunes. Tulane had suffered three consecu- RB Cedric Benson______2004 WR Roy Williams______2000 tive losing seasons before Brown’s arrival, but by his third season in 1987, he led the LB Derrick Johnson______2002, ’03, ’04 QB Major Applewhite______1998 TE Bo Scaife______2004 Green Wave to a 6-5 mark and a berth in the Independence Bowl (just the program’s og tillman Holloway______2003 Big 12 Defensive fifth bowl game since 1940). That season, the Green Wave set school records for total DT Marcus Tubbs______2003 Freshman of the Year offense and points, ranking 11th nationally in scoring (32.5 ppg). That remarkable CB nathan Vasher______2003 DE Brian Orakpo______2005 season earned Brown a spot in the Independence Bowl Hall of Honor in 2002. He also CB Rod Babers______2002 DT Rodrique Wright______2002 OL Derrick Dockery______2002 LB Derrick Johnson______2001 served as athletics director his final two years at Tulane. DE Cory Redding______2001, ’02 DE Cory Redding______1999 in 1988, Brown took over a North Carolina program that had suffered two los- WR Roy Williams______2001, ’02 ing seasons in its previous three years and three non-winning seasons in its previous CB Quentin Jammer______2000, ’01 ACC Rookie of the Year LB D.D. Lewis______2001 RB Leon Johnson______1993 four years. While rebuilding the foundation, Brown’s Tar Heels squads posted back- to-back 1-10 seasons in 1988 and ‘89. In 1990, Carolina was 6-4-1 and the Tar Heels www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com 85 Head Coach

“I have never seen anyone make friends better or mack brown’s nfl first and quicker with the high school coaching community.” second-round draft picks (as of 2010) — Eddie Joseph, former exec. vice president, (Texas in bold italics) Texas High School Coaches Association 2011 2nd aaron Williams, CB______Buffalo Bills were beginning a run of eight consecutive winning seasons and six straight bowl game 2010 1st earl Thomas, S______Seattle Seahawks appearances. UNC’s 54-18 (.750) record during his last six years ranked as the ninth- 2nd sergio Kindle, LB______Baltimore Ravens best nationally during that period. His final two seasons were the most impressive. 2nd Lamarr Houston, DT______Oakland Raiders He compiled a 20-3 (.870) mark and led the Heels to a No. 4 final ranking in the USA 2009 1st Brian Orakpo, DE______Washington Redskins Today/ESPN poll and No. 6 ranking by The AP in 1997. 2008 2nd Limas Sweed, WR______Pittsburgh Steelers at UNC, Brown recruited and coached several of the finest players in school his- 2007 1st Michael Griffin, S______Tennessee Titans tory. From his 1997 squad, DE Greg Ellis (No. 8, Dallas Cowboys), LB Brian Simmons 1st aaron Ross, CB______New York Giants (No. 17, Cincinnati Bengals) and DT Vonnie Holliday (No. 19, Green Bay Packers) 2nd Justin Blalock, OL______Atlanta Falcons earned All-America recognition and were selected among the first 19 picks in the 1998 2nd tim Crowder, DE______Denver Broncos NFL Draft. 2006 1st Vince Young, QB______Tennessee Titans along with that trio of first-rounders, Brown also helped develop several other 1st Michael Huff, S______Oakland Raiders Tar Heels standouts. Marcus Jones, a consensus first-team All-America defensive 2nd Cedric Griffin, CB______Minnesota Vikings tackle, earned ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1995. 2005 1st Cedric Benson, RB______Chicago Bears 1st Derrick Johnson, LB______Kansas City Chiefs Corey Holliday, the leading receiver in Tar Heels history, was a CFA/Hitachi 2004 1st Roy Williams, WR______Detroit Lions Scholar-Athlete and is a former member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Dwight Hollier, 1st Marcus Tubbs, DT______Seattle Seahawks who made more than 500 tackles during his Tar Heels career, also played in the NFL. 2002 1st Mike Williams, OT______Buffalo Bills Natrone Means, who rushed for more than 1,000 yards in his final two seasons at 1st Quentin Jammer, CB______San Diego Chargers UNC, went on to lead the San Diego Chargers to Super Bowl XXIX and the Jacksonville 2001 1st Leonard Davis, OT______Arizona Cardinals Jaguars to the 1996 AFC title game. 1st Casey Hampton, DT______Pittsburgh Steelers QBs Jason Stanicek and Mike Thomas combined to rewrite Carolina’s passing 2nd shaun Rogers, DT______Detroit Lions and total offense records. CB Thomas Smith came to UNC in 1989 as a walk-on from 1999 1st Ricky Williams, RB______New Orleans Saints a small high school in North Carolina and departed as a first-round pick of the AFC 1st ebenezer Ekuban, DE______Dallas Cowboys Champion Buffalo Bills. RB Leon Johnson, one of the premier all-purpose offensive 2nd Dré Bly, CB______St. Louis Rams threats in ACC history, played eight seasons in the NFL. CB Dré Bly, a three-time 2nd Russell Davis, DT______Chicago Bears All-American who recorded an ACC-record 20 interceptions during his career, played 1998 1st greg Ellis, DE______Dallas Cowboys 11 seasons in the NFL. Freddie Jones, a second-round draft choice of the San Diego 1st Vonnie Holliday, DT______Green Bay Packers Chargers in 1997, was one of the NFL’s top pass-catching tight ends and played eight 1st Brian Simmons, LB______Cincinnati Bengals seasons in the NFL. 1997 2nd Rick Terry, DT______New York Jets after leading UNC to a 10-1 regular season record and a No. 6 national ranking, 2nd Freddie Jones, TE______San Diego Chargers Brown accepted the head coaching position at Texas on Dec. 4, 1997. 1996 1st Marcus Jones, DT______Tampa Bay Buccaneers one of the most respected coaches in the college game, Brown has served on 1994 2nd Bucky Brooks, WR______Buffalo Bills numerous national committees. He has been a member of the NCAA Football Rules 1993 1st thomas Smith, DB______Buffalo Bills Committee and the NCAA Football Issues Committee. He has been chairman of the 2nd natrone Means, RB______San Diego Chargers Football Coaches’ Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the College 1987 2nd eric Thomas, DB______Cincinnati Bengals Football Association. A past member of the American Football Coaches Association’s (AFCA) Ethics Committee, Brown also has served on the AFCA Public Relations Winner by the American Red Cross. In September 2008, he and Sally were named the Committee. He has been invited to coach in five postseason all-star games, including Citizens of the Year for Caritas of Austin, which provides meals and aid for the home- the Japan Bowl, Hula Bowl (twice) and East-West Shrine Game (twice). less. The Browns themselves have spent many hours serving food at Caritas. he and his wife, Sally, have four children — Matt, Katherine, Barbara and Chris. earlier in that year, The University of Texas honored Mack Brown with The Mack Sally enthusiastically involves herself in football team activities. In 1999, she retired as Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs. The Chair is part of the president of Marin Development in North Carolina. She is past president of the Public, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a university-wide global Private Partnership (PPP), an organization that fostered improved relations between affairs research center named for renowned lawyer and public servant, Ambassador the University of North Carolina and the town of Chapel Hill. She also volunteered Robert S. Strauss. The center is part of the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Legendary time to chair the fund-raising efforts for the UNC Black Cultural Center and was a Penn State head coach Joe Paterno traveled to Austin to present The Chair. member of a Carolina Alumni Advisory Committee. in June 2007, Brown paired with Attorney General of Texas Greg Abbott to com- in Austin, the Browns continue to be active in community affairs, serving as mend fathers who provide a nurturing home for their children, and asked dads from honorary co-chairpersons of the Capital Campaign for the Helping Hands of Austin. across the state to join in the fight against domestic abuse. The Browns have been instrumental in the opening of The Rise School of Austin (an in May 2009, Brown went on an eight-day trip to visit U.S. troops in Germany, early childhood education program that integrates children who have disabilities with Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Djibouti and Spain as part of the Coaches Tour 2009. their typically developing peers) and serve on the school’s Board of Directors. They the Browns have previously endorsed a new Texas license plate, which was lend their name along with legendary UT QB James Street to the annual James Street/ designed to raise public awareness for child abuse and neglect and the need for Court Mack Brown Golf Tournament benefiting The Rise School. Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteers. After the Bonfire tragedy at Texas the Browns also contribute privately to numerous other causes in Austin, and A&M in 1999, the couple initiated a blood drive on the UT campus that attracted more in April 2011, Brown was named the 2011 Lady Bird Johnson Humanitarian Award than 250 blood donors.

86 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Major Applewhite Co-Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs

the APPLEWHITE file passer for the first time in school history en route to the program’s Hometown______Baton Rouge, La. first appearance in a bowl game since High school______Catholic (Baton Rouge, La.) 1961. The 2006 Rice offense produced College______Texas ’01 a 109-point improvement in scoring Year in coaching______Ninth over the previous season. Wife______Julie Before his stint at Rice, Children______Lila Applewhite joined former Longhorn Defensive Coordinator Greg Robinson Coaching Assignments at Syracuse where he served as quar- 2011-______Co-Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs______Texas terbacks coach in 2005. Applewhite’s 2008-10______Assistant Head Coach/Running Backs______Texas coaching career began where he 2007______Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks______Alabama starred, at Texas, where he served 2006______Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks______Rice as a graduate assistant coach and 2005______Quarterbacks______Syracuse worked with the offensive line for two 2003-04______Graduate Assistant______Texas seasons (2003-04). In his final year in record setting quarterback College Bowl Experience 2004, the Longhorns went 11-1, beat at UT and former gradu- No. 12 Michigan in the Rose Bowl ate assistant coach for Mack 2010______BCS National Championship______Texas and earned a No. 4 final ranking - it’s ABrown, Major Applewhite is a nine- 2009______Fiesta Bowl______Texas highest since 1981. 2007______Independence Bowl______Alabama year coaching veteran and joined the Longhorns’ team captain 2006______New Orleans Bowl______Rice the Texas staff in January 2008 as 2005______Rose Bowl______Texas in 2001, Applewhite helped Texas to assistant head coach and running 2003______Holiday Bowl______Texas four straight bowl games (1999 and backs coach before being promoted 2001______Holiday Bowl______Texas* 2000 Cotton Bowls/2000 and 2001 to co-offensive coordinator in January 2000______Holiday Bowl______Texas* Holiday Bowls) and posted a 22-8 2011. 2000______Cotton Bowl______Texas* record as a starter. He capped his since Applewhite began coach- 1999______Cotton Bowl______Texas* career by throwing for a UT record ing running backs in 2008, Doak *as a player 473 yards and a Longhorn-bowl-game Walker Award semifinalist Jamaal best four TDs en route to Offensive Charles and Chris Ogbonnaya have to rush for 1,371 yards and 20 TDs, scoring from 22.9 points per game to MVP honors in a 47-43 victory over both gone on to the NFL. In 2010, including 12 TDs by Johnson, which 27.1. His offense generated 256 yards No. 20 Washington in the 2001 the running back corps combined for tied the UT freshman record. The passing and 388 total yards to cap the Holiday Bowl. The 1999 co-Big 12 1,396 rushing yards and 14 TDs, while group did not lose a fumble dur- year with a 30-24 win over Colorado Offensive Player of the Year set then- catching 47 passes for 322 yards. ing the entire season and showed its in the Independence Bowl. UT records for career (8,353) and During Applewhite’s tenure, the cur- versatility by combining for 65 recep- in 2007, the Crimson Tide gained season (3,357/1999) passing yards, rent Texas RBs who have started at tions for 640 yards and three TDs, led 510 yards of offense (363 passing/147 as well as career TD passes (60). He least one game in their careers have by Ogbonnaya, who set the UT single- rushing) en route to a 41-17 vic- threw for 2,453 yards and 18 TDs, fumbled only eight times and lost season record for receptions by a run- tory over a Tennessee team that fin- UT freshman records at the time, in only three. Of those eight, only four ning back with 46. He also finished ished the year ranked 12th nationally. claiming Big 12 Freshman of the Year belonged to backs on the 2010 team second on the single-season receiv- Trailing 20-10 in the fourth quarter honors in 1998. and of those, only one has been lost ing yards list with 540. Ogbonnaya against a Georgia team that finished a native of Baton Rouge, La., (Fozzy Whittaker 2-0, Cody Johnson earned honorable mention All-Big 12 the year ranked No. 2, Applewhite’s Applewhite threw for 50 touchdowns 1-0, Tre’ Newton 1-1). honors and was named Second-Team offense scored 10 points in the final six and ran for eight more in two years the running backs rushed for Academic All-America. minutes, including a 10-play, 88-yard as a starter at Catholic High School. 1,665 yards and 24 TDs in 2009. applewhite returned to his alma drive that tied the game and sent He was tabbed an honorable men- Redshirt freshman Tre’ Newton mater after spending the 2007 season it to overtime in an eventual 26-23 tion prep all-America by USA Today emerged to lead the team in rushing, as offensive coordinator and quar- loss. Alabama registered 450 yards of after leading Catholic High to a 13-1 helping fill the void of Ogbonnaya, terbacks coach at Alabama, where offense (327 passing/123 rushing) in a record and No. 10 national ranking as who was drafted by the St. Louis he was the youngest coordinator in 41-38 win over Arkansas. a senior. He was 25-2 as a starter. Rams. Newton combined with junior the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision prior to Alabama, Applewhite applewhite completed his degree Vondrell McGee and sophomores (FBS). spent a season as offensive coordina- in sport management at Texas in Cody Johnson and Fozzy Whittaker, in Applewhite’s one year at tor/quarterbacks coach at Rice where, December 2002. His wife, Julie, is who each had at least 50 carries. Alabama, the Crimson Tide bounced as the youngest coordinator in NCAA also a UT graduate and the couple in 2008, Applewhite guided a back from a losing season in 2006 Division I, he directed an offense that has a daughter, Lila, who was born in running backs unit that had to replace to post a 7-6 record under first-year scored the most points (350) and January 2009. Doak Walker Award semifinalist coach Nick Saban. Under his guid- gained the third-most yards (4,486) Jamaal Charles, who went to the NFL. ance, Alabama improved its offensive in Owls’ history. Under his guidance, Ogbonnaya, McGee, Whittaker and output by nearly 40 yards per game Rice produced a 1,000-yard rusher, a Johnson stepped in and combined (335.9 to 373.8) and increased its 1,000-yard receiver and a 1,000-yard

www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com 87 Bryan Harsin Co-Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks

the HARSIN file in his third season as offensive coordinator, Harsin’s 2008 unit was Hometown______Boise, Idaho taken over by Moore, who was a red- High school______Capital (Boise, Idaho) shirt freshman. Moore would compile one of the most outstanding seasons College______Boise State ’99 by any Broncos quarterback, finishing Year in coaching______12th the year with a NCAA freshman record Wife______Kes 69.4 completion percentage (281-of- Children______Devyn Lynn, Dayn Mykena, Davis 405), 25 touchdown passes and just 10 interceptions. He was also named Coaching Assignments WAC Freshman of the Year. Following the 2007 season, offen- 2011-______Co-Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks______Texas sive tackle Ryan Clady became the 2006-10______Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks______Boise State first player in Boise State history to 2002-05______Tight Ends______Boise State be taken in the first round of the NFL 2001______Graduate Assistant______Boise State draft when he was selected No. 12 2000______Running Backs/Wide Receivers______Eastern Oregon overall by the Denver Broncos. Clady, who entered the draft one year early, College Bowl Experience was named a first-team All-America by the American Football Coaches ryan Harsin was named co- 2010______Las Vegas Bowl______Boise State offensive coordinator and Association and Sporting News. 2010______Fiesta Bowl______Boise State in Harsin’s first season as offen- quarterbacks coach at Texas 2008 ______Poinsetta Bowl______Boise State inB January 2011. Harsin joined the sive coordinator, the 2006 Broncos 2007______Hawai’i Bowl______Boise State Longhorns after 10 seasons as a mem- went undefeated and RB Ian Johnson 2007______Fiesta Bowl______Boise State led the country in rushing touchdowns ber of the Boise State staff, including 2005______MPC Computers Bowl______Boise State the last five as offensive coordinator and scoring. He also set a school sin- 2004______Liberty Bowl______Boise State and quarterbacks coach. A finalist for gle-season record with 1,713 yards. 2003______Fort Worth Bowl______Boise State the 2009 Broyles Award, honoring the He was named to four separate All- nation’s top assistant coach, Harsin 2002______Humanitarian______Boise State America teams and finished eighth in has guided offenses that have con- 1999______Humanitarian______Boise State* the Heisman Trophy voting. From 2002-05 Harsin served as sistently ranked among the nation’s *as a player best in almost every major statistical tight ends coach at BSU. That unit played a vital role in a Broncos offense category. State produced the sixth-ranked rush- to throw for 3,000 yards in three differ- he was at the helm of the offense that led the nation in scoring twice ing offense in the nation with 214.2 ent seasons. and finished in the top 10 in scoring during a five-year period where the ypg, while in 2010 it has had the Moore also became Boise State’s Broncos posted a 61-5 record that in each of those four years. In 2005, nation’s sixth-ranked passing attack all-time leader in a number of statisti- four Broncos tight ends combined to included two undefeated seasons, with 321.1 ypg, which is the fourth- cal categories, including total offense which were capped by Fiesta Bowl catch 27 passes for 298 yards and three best mark in school history. In that (10,811), passing yards (10,867), com- touchdowns. In 2004, Harsin helped wins over TCU in 2009 (14-0) and span, the offense has averaged 272.4 pletions (831), touchdowns (99) and Oklahoma in 2006 (13-0). They the tight ends contribute to the top- yards passing and 187.5 yards rushing 200-yard passing games (34). scoring offense in school history (48.9 reached at least 12 wins in four of his per game. Moore’s single-season numbers five seasons as coordinator and had ppg). in addition, the Broncos ranked from 2010 also rank in the all-time in his four seasons as tight ends three Top 10 finishes, including rank- in the top 12 in pass efficiency all five top 10. His 3,845 passing yards is the ing No. 5/6 in 2006, No. 4/4 in 2009, coach and one as a graduate assistant, years and have been in the top 10 in second-highest single-season total in Boise State had a record of 53-11, and No. 10/10 entering the 2010 bowl four of those. They led the nation in school history, his 245 completions season. In 2008, they finished just out- making the Broncos record in his 10 fewest sacks allowed in 2009 with just rank fourth, his 383 attempts are fifth seasons there 114-16. side the Top 10 at No. 11/13. five, were third in 2010 with only eight and his 35 touchdowns are tied for in the time since becoming offen- prior to coaching the tight ends, and were fifth in 2008 with 13. second. Harsin was a graduate assistant with sive coordinator at Boise State in as quarterbacks coach, Harsin a large part of the offensive 2006, Harsin’s offenses were in the top the Broncos in 2001. He was a mem- guided Kellen Moore into becoming success in 2009 came on the arm of ber of the Bronco football team from five nationally in scoring four times, one of the nation’s most productive Moore, who finished the season with capped by ranking first in 2009 (42.2 1995-1999, earning three varsity let- quarterbacks. In 2010, Moore was a school record 39 touchdown throws ters. He served as Boise State’s backup ppg) and second in 2010 with 45.1 ppg. named first-team All-America by and just three interceptions. Moore They also ranked second in 2006 (39.7 quarterback in 1999 when the team the Football Writers Association of ended the year ranked second in the went 10-3 and won the Crucial.com ppg), fourth in 2007 (42.4 ppg) and America and became Boise State’s first country in pass efficiency (161.7) en 12th in 2008 (37.6 ppg). In all, Boise Humanitarian Bowl. Heisman Trophy finalist. He was also a route to setting the NCAA record for after graduating from Boise State State averaged 41.4 ppg during his finalist for the Maxwell Award, Davey interception-to-attempt ratio at .69 time as coordinator. in 2000 with a degree in business man- O’Brien Award and Manning Award percent (3-of-431). agement, Harsin entered the coaching the Broncos ranked in the Top and was named the nation’s top quar- espn.com, SI.com and CBSSports. 10 in total offense in three of Harsin’s profession at Eastern Oregon, coaching terback by The Touchdown Club of com named Moore first-team All- running backs and receivers during the seasons as coordinator and have been Columbus. America, the Associated Press named no lower than 18th in all five of his 2000 season. Last season, Moore became the him third-team All-America, while Harsin and his wife, Kes, have two years, culminating in 2010 with an first Boise State quarterback to eclipse he also finished seventh in the 2009 average of 521.3 ypg, which set the daughters, Devyn Lynn and Dayn 10,000 career passing yards and is one Heisman voting and earned Western Mykena, and a son, Davis. Harsin is BSU school record and ranked second of just six active players with 10,000 Athletic Conference Offensive Player nationally. In those five seasons, the a graduate of Capital High School in passing yards. He also notched his of the Year honors. Also earning first- Boise. Broncos offense averaged 459.9 ypg. third 3,000-yard passing season in team All-WAC honors in 2009 under Harsin’s offenses averaged more than 2010 and owns three of the top four Harsin’s guidance were wide receivers 200 yards both rushing and passing single-season marks in Bronco history. Austin Pettis and Titus Young, and twice during his tenure. In 2006, Boise He is the only player in school history offensive lineman Nate Potter.

88 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Manny Diaz Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers

the Diaz file the Wolfpack won the Tangerine Bowl and finished 7-5 with Diaz sharing Hometown______Miami, Fla. play-calling duties for all 11 games. High school______Miami Country Day School (Miami, Fla.) He also made all the defensive calls College______Florida State ’95 during the bowl win over Kansas. Year in coaching______14th in his first year as a full-time Wife______Stephanie coach, Diaz helped the Wolfpack to Children______Colin, Gavin, Manny one of their best seasons ever, finish- ing 11-3 and defeating Notre Dame Coaching Assignments in the Gator Bowl. He shared in the play-calling duties, and N.C. State 2011-______Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers______Texas ended the year ranked 14th nation- 2010______Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers______Mississippi State ally in total defense and 10th in scor- 2008-09______Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers______Middle Tennessee ing defense. In back-to-back games 2006-07______Defensive Coordinator/Safeties ______Middle Tennessee against Florida State and Notre Dame, 2004-05______Safeties/Special Teams ______N.C. State N.C. State did not allow an offensive 2002-03______Linebackers______N.C. State touchdown. 2000-01______Graduate Assistant ______N.C. State Diaz spent the 2000 and 2001 sea- anny Diaz, the former defen- 1998-99______Graduate Assistant ______Florida State sons at NCSU as a graduate assistant sive coordinator and line- working primarily with the lineback- backers coach at Mississippi College Bowl Experience ers. During that time, the Wolfpack SMtate and Middle Tennessee, joined went to two bowl games and became 2011______Gator Bowl______Mississippi State the Texas coaching staff in the same the first ACC team to beat FSU in 2009______New Orleans Bowl______Middle Tennessee position in January 2011. 2006______Motor City Bowl______Middle Tennessee Tallahassee. in 2010 with the Bulldogs, Diaz 2005______Meineke Car Care Bowl______N.C. State Diaz, whose father recently con- guided a defense that ranked 22nd 2003______Tangerine Bowl______N.C. State cluded his second term as mayor of in the nation in scoring defense (19.9 2003______Gator Bowl______N.C. State the City of Miami, began his coaching ppg), 17th in rushing defense (214.9 2001______Tangerine Bowl______N.C. State career at Florida State in 1998, work- ypg) and 17th in tackles for loss (7.0 2000______MicronPC.com Bowl______N.C. State ing alongside defensive coordinator pg). That was a dramatic turnaround 2000______Sugar Bowl______Florida State^ Mickey Andrews for two seasons. for MSU from the season prior to 1999______Fiesta Bowl______Florida State During his stint, the Seminoles won a his arrival. In 2009, the defense fin- National Championship in 1999 and ished 71st in scoring defense, 62nd ^National Champions were runners-up in 1998. in rushing defense and 89th in TFL. he worked at ESPN from 1995 Mississippi State also finished ranked after mentoring the safeties during Before joining Middle Tennessee, to 1997 after earning his B.S. in 13th in red zone defense (.73) and his first two seasons in Murfreesboro. Diaz played a major role for one of communications from FSU, and in 22nd in turnovers forced (28) nation- In four years under Diaz, the Middle the country’s top-ranked defenses by high school, he was a Miami Herald ally in 2010. Tennessee defense led its conference coaching safeties in 2004 and 2005 Honorable Mention All-Dade County the 2010 defense held seven in sacks and tackles for loss twice, and handling the linebackers in 2002 Scholar-Athlete for football, basket- opponents to 20 points or fewer, and finished no lower than third in and 2003 for North Carolina State. ball and baseball in 1991. which includes only 17 points to the league in either category during In 2005, the Wolfpack finished eighth the Miami native is married to Auburn, which had the nation’s his tenure. In 2009, the Blue Raiders nationally in total defense, sixth in the former Stephanie Cerow and they fourth-ranked scoring offense, and finished second nationally in tackles third-down percentage, and 12th in have three sons, Colin, Gavin, and 14 points in the Gator Bowl to a for loss, stopping more than eight scoring defense en route to a 7-5 Manny. Michigan offense that entered the and a half plays per game behind record and a shutout win over South game averaging 34.3 ppg. Under Diaz, the line of scrimmage. Diaz’s defense Florida in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. LB Chris White earned first-team All- also ranked sixth nationally in sacks He also served as special teams coor- SEC honors and was named Nagurski that season, posting nearly three per dinator and his kickoff return unit National Player of the Week follow- game. finished fifth nationally, while his ing a game against Florida where the also in 2009, Diaz tutored punt return team blocked four kicks. Bulldogs held the Gators to just seven defensive end Chris McCoy who was In his first year as safeties coach and points in Gainesville. tabbed the Sun Belt Conference co- special teams coordinator in 2004, Mississippi State’s nine wins in Defensive Player of the Year. McCoy N.C. State’s defense finished the year 2010 were the most for the school led the league and ranked sixth as the top-ranked unit in the country since a 10-2 record in 1999 and nationally in tackles for loss. Safety in total defense by allowing just over marked just the second winning sea- Jeremy Kellum and cornerbacks Alex 220 yards per game. The Wolfpack son for the program since 2001. The Suber and Marcus Udell were also defense also held national powers Bulldogs finished ranked No. 15/17, named first team all-SBC. Defensive Ohio State and Florida State to under its highest final ranking since finish- end Jamari Lattimore along with line- 130 yards of total offense during the ing No. 13/12 in 1999. That is the only backers Cam Robinson and Danny season. Diaz, who coached All-ACC time MSU has ranked higher than Carmichael earned second-team hon- performer and former New York Jet 18th in the final polls since 1981. ors. Overall, Diaz’ unit produced 17 Andre Maddox, also had his punt prior to Mississippi State, Diaz all-conference players during his time return team block three kicks and spent four seasons as defensive coor- there and put up three of the top take two returns for touchdowns. dinator at Middle Tennessee. Diaz four fewest yards allowed averages at Diaz handled the linebackers for also coached linebackers for two years Middle Tennessee in its FBS era. N.C. State in 2002 and 2003. In 2003,

www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com 89 Duane Akina Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Backs

helped Texas rank second in the Big 12 in the akina file pass efficiency defense. in 2009, Akina guided a secondary that Hometown______Honolulu, Hawaii helped the defense lead the nation in inter- High school______Punahou (Honolulu, Hawaii) ceptions (25), rank 10th in pass efficiency College______Washington ’79 defense and 19th in passing yards allowed. Year in coaching______33rd It also featured the Longhorns’ third Thorpe Wife______Donna Award finalist in five years in consensus All-America honoree S Earl Thomas, who Children______Kainoa, Keoni, Dionicia, Alli, Kamalii led the nation in passes defended and tied for second in interceptions with a UT record eight. Thomas also tied the UT single-season Coaching Assignments record with two INT returned for TDs. 2008-______Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Backs______Texas Last season, the Longhorns ranked sixth in the nation in both pass defense 2004-07______Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs ______Texas (161.6 ypg) and total defense (300.2 ypg). 2003______Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Backs______Texas Cornerbacks Curtis Brown and Aaron 2001-02______Defensive Backs ______Texas Williams both earned second-team All-Big 1996-2000_____Defensive Backs (Def. Coord, spring 2001)______Arizona 12 honors, while S Blake Gideon was tabbed 1992-95______Offensive Coordinator______Arizona honorable mention All-Big 12. Three defen- sive backs from last year’s team - Williams, 1989-91______Associate Head Coach______Arizona Brown and CB Chykie Brown - were selected 1987-91______Defensive Backs ______Arizona in the 2011 NFL Draft in the second, third 33-year coaching veteran who has and fifth rounds, respectively. spent 23 of his seasons as an assistant 1986______Defensive Backs ______Calgary (CFL) akina joined the UT program after working with defensive backs, Duane 1984-85______Defensive Backs ______Hawaii spending the previous 14 seasons at Arizona, Akina has tutored three Thorpe Award win- 1983______Outside Linebackers______Hawaii where he served as the associate head ners, six Thorpe Award finalists and 25 1981-82______Defensive Backs ______Hawaii coach and was tabbed defensive coordina- defensive backs who have played in the NFL. 1979-80______Graduate Assistant ______Washington tor in December 2000. During his tenure in his 10 seasons at UT, Akina’s sec- at Arizona, he was a versatile coach who ondary has helped the Horns rank among worked with both sides of the ball. Akina the nation’s Top 10 in pass defense five College Bowl Experience spent his final five seasons as defensive backs times and featured consecutive Thorpe coach and nine of his 14 seasons working Award winners in Michael Huff (2005) and 2010______BCS National Championship______Texas with the Wildcats’ secondary. He also was Aaron Ross (2006) to go along with two 2009______Fiesta Bowl______Texas UA’s offensive coordinator from 1992-95. finalists in Earl Thomas (2009) and Quentin as the secondary coach at Arizona, Jammer (2001) and 10 first-team All-Big 12 2007______Holiday Bowl______Texas Akina helped guide the Wildcats’ “Desert picks. Nine of the Texas DBs he has tutored 2006______Alamo Bowl______Texas Swarm” defensive attack, one of the nation’s are currently in the NFL. 2006______Rose Bowl______Texas^ most aggressive and productive groups. His in his first season at Texas, he helped 2005______Rose Bowl______Texas prize pupils were Darryll Lewis, the 1990 Jim guide one of the nation’s premier second- 2003______Holiday Bowl______Texas Thorpe Award winner, and Chris McAlister, aries that ranked third in passing defense a finalist for the Thorpe Award and winner (146.7 ypg) and fourth in pass efficien- 2003______Cotton Bowl______Texas of the Mosi Tatupu National Special Teams cy defense (88.0 rating). The Longhorns 2001______Holiday Bowl______Texas Player of the Year award in 1998. Lewis was allowed only 4.77 yards per pass attempt, 1998______Holiday Bowl______Arizona a Pro Bowler for the San Diego Chargers and which was the lowest in the nation, while 1997______Insight.com Bowl______Arizona played 10 seasons in the NFL. McAlister, their six touchdown passes allowed were 1994______Freedom Bowl______Arizona meanwhile, earned a spot in the 2004 Pro tied for the second-fewest nationally. Bowl and was a member of the 2000 Super Akina’s top pupil was CB Quentin Jammer, 1994______Fiesta Bowl______Arizona Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens. who became UT’s first unanimous consen- 1992______John Hancock Bowl______Arizona During his time as offensive coordina- sus first-team All-America defender since 1990______Aloha Bowl______Arizona tor, Akina guided some of the Wildcats’ most Jerry Gray in 1984. Jammer, who set a UT 1989______Copper Bowl______Arizona productive offenses. In 1994, he helped devel- single-season record with 24 pass breakups 1981______Rose Bowl______Washington op the UA offense into a unit that recorded and eclipsed the school’s career PBUs mark more than 200 yards passing per game. with 57, also became the first Longhorn to 1976______Rose Bowl______Washington* Arizona’s offense registered 2,211 passing earn a spot as a Thorpe Award finalist. yards and 1,776 rushing yards that season, Despite losing two starters to the NFL ^National Champions / *as a player which marked the first time in a decade that (Jammer and Ahmad Brooks), Akina guid- the team had registered more yards passing ed a secondary that was again among the in turnover margin (+5) and 23rd in total the duo of Michael Griffin and Ross than rushing. In 1995, Akina directed the nation’s best in 2002. Led by first-team All- defense (320.1) in the country. went on to be drafted back-to-back in the Wildcats’ passing attack to 204.3 yards per Big 12 performer and Thorpe Award semi- Under Akina’s direction, Huff became NFL first round, 19th overall by the Titans game, which at the time, ranked fifth on the finalist Rod Babers, the secondary ranked a member of the Jim Thorpe Award watch and 20th by the Giants, respectively. Both school’s all-time list. seventh nationally in pass efficiency defense list and three of the four starters in the sec- earned starting positions with Ross and the akina joined the UA staff in January (96.1 rating), eighth in passing defense ondary were named to All-Big 12 teams. Giants advancing to the Super Bowl. Tarell 1987 after spending a season as defensive (165.2 ypg.) and allowed just 5.37 yards per the pattern continued in 2005 as Brown was the third Longhorn DB drafted backs coach with the Calgary Stampeders of attempt (third NCAA). Babers posted 21 Akina led a defense and secondary that that year (UT first since 1984), as he was the Canadian Football League. Prior to that, PBUs (No. 3 on UT’s single-season list) and ranked fourth nationally in pass efficiency chosen in the fifth round by the 49ers. he spent five years as an assistant coach at finished his career ranked third on the UT defense (96.7), eighth in pass defense (172.0 in 2007, Akina guided a Texas defense the University of Hawaii. Akina coached the all-time PBU chart (49). Akina also helped ypg), eighth in scoring defense (16.4 ppg) that was sixth-best in the nation against the defensive backs in 1981-82 and ‘84-85 and train S Michael Huff, who earned third-team and 10th in total defense (302.9 ypg). Akina run (93.4 ypg). Safety Marcus Griffin earned tutored the outside linebackers in 1983 at UH. Freshman All-America honors. also mentored Huff as Texas’ first-ever Jim first-team All-Big 12 honors and was named a native of Honolulu, Akina is a 1979 in 2003, the Longhorns ranked ninth Thorpe Award winner and produced three first-team All-America by ESPN.com. graduate of the University of Washington. nationally in pass defense (177.3 ypg) and All-Big 12 performers out of the secondary. akina returned his full focus to the He earned three letters as a quarterback, and third in completion percentage allowed Despite losing two players who wound defensive backs in 2008. With only one upon completing his eligibility, he served (47.2). CB Nathan Vasher was a Thorpe up starting for their NFL teams in Huff returning starter in CB Ryan Palmer, Akina as a graduate assistant coach at UW. Akina Award semifinalist, earned first-team All- (Raiders) and Cedric Griffin (Vikings), guided the emergence of two freshmen at worked with the Huskies’ quarterbacks in Big 12 honors and tied the oldest-standing Akina continued to show his ability to the starting safety positions. By season’s 1979-80. mark on the Longhorn record book with his develop great talent in 2006. He helped end, Earl Thomas was named first-team hawaii’s Prep Athlete of the Year at 17th career interception. He also broke the Aaron Ross become Texas’ second consecu- Freshman All-America by the Football Honolulu’s Punahou High School in 1974- UT record for career pass breakups with 64. tive Thorpe Award winner, while also earn- Writers Association of America, Sporting 75, he was a three-time all-league selection after being named co-defensive ing various publication’s Big 12 Defensive News and College Football News, while as a quarterback in football and a guard in coordinator in 2004, Akina helped guide a Player of the Year. Safety Michael Griffin Blake Gideon earned second-team honors basketball. Akina and his wife, Donna, have defense that finished 18th in scoring defense also capped his outstanding career with All- from College Football News. Palmer earned five children, Kainoa, Keoni, Dionicia, Alli (17.9), 16th in rushing defense (107.4), 32nd America honors. second-team All-Big 12 honors, and the unit and Kamalii. Kainoa has a wife, Daya. 90 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Bruce Chambers Co-Recruiting Coordinator/Tight Ends

the career all-purpose yardage list (4,945). the chambers file in 2001, Chambers faced the task of preparing true freshman Cedric Benson Hometown______Dallas, Texas for action. Benson went on to become High school______Carter (Dallas, Texas) the first freshman in UT history to rush College______North Texas ’82 for 1,000 yards and was tabbed the Big Year in coaching______28th 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year, the Wife______Cathy Longhorns Offensive MVP and third-team All-Big 12. His 13 UT freshman records were highlighted by his 1,053 rushing Coaching Assignments yards, 12 rushing TDs and five 100-yard rushing games (all in a row). Benson also 2005-______Co-Recruiting Coordinator/Tight Ends______Texas rushed for a UT freshman-best 213 yards 2004______Assistant Head Coach/Tight Ends______Texas against Kansas. 2003______Tight Ends______Texas Under Chambers’ direction, Benson 1998-2002_____Running Backs______Texas followed up his fine freshman season with 1996-97______Athletics Director/Head Coach______Carter (Dallas) HS 1,293 yards (No. 6 on UT’s season list) in 2002. 1993-95______Asst. Head Coach/Offensive Coord.______Carter (Dallas) HS in Chambers’ first five seasons, the 1989-92______Defensive Coordinator______Carter (Dallas) HS Longhorns turned in 19 games of 200 or 1986-88______Junior Varsity Offensive Coord.______Carter (Dallas) HS more yards rushing, including a 434-yard ne of the most respected high 1984-85______Freshman Assistant Coach______Carter (Dallas) HS rushing day against Rice in 1998 and a school coaches in Texas for 14 396-yard effort at Kansas in 2000. He also guided three different UT players who years, Bruce Chambers has con- College Bowl Experience tinuedO that success at The University of rushed for 200 yards in a game. Chambers joined the UT staff from Texas. Chambers is in his ninth season 2010______BCS National Championship______Texas as UT’s tight ends coach after spend- Carter High School in Dallas, where he 2009______Fiesta Bowl______Texas helped coach one of the state’s most suc- ing the previous five years working with 2007______Holiday Bowl______Texas the running backs. He also became UT’s cessful football programs for 14 seasons. recruiting coordinator in 2005. Five of 2006______Alamo Bowl______Texas He was the head coach and athletics direc- the Longhorn RBs and TEs he has worked 2006______Rose Bowl______Texas^ tor during his final two years and also with are currently in the NFL. 2005______Rose Bowl______Texas taught speech and journalism classes at Last season, senior Greg Smith and 2003______Holiday Bowl______Texas the school. Chambers’ tie to high school coach- sophomore Barrett Matthews saw a major- 2003______Cotton Bowl______Texas ity of the snaps at tight end with redshirt ing and his understanding of young men, 2001______Holiday Bowl______Texas parents and the job of the high school freshman Dominique Jones contributing 2000______Holiday Bowl______Texas late in the season. coach made him a prime candidate when in 2009, Smith saw the majority of 2000______Cotton Bowl______Texas Mack Brown was forming his staff at UT. snaps at tight end and provided excellent 1999______Cotton Bowl______Texas in his 14 seasons at Carter, the blocking and timely receiving for a posi- Cowboys advanced to the state play- tion that had seen its share of injuries ^National Champions offs each year, won the 1988 State over the course of two seasons. In 2008, Championship, earned four regional titles sophomore Blaine Irby emerged following During his second season as tight ends rushing total in NCAA history (2,124 and claimed 13 district crowns. the loss of Jermichael Finley to the NFL. coach in 2004, Chambers helped improve yards). Williams went on to earn Big 12 a graduate of North Texas, Chambers Through the first three games, Irby caught the productivity of senior Bo Scaife and Offensive Player of the Year accolades was Carter’s head coach in 1996 and ‘97, 10 passes for 95 yards and two TDs, but Thomas, who was in his junior season. and first-team All-America honors for compiling a record of 18-6. His Cowboys his season was then cut short by inju- Scaife was named first team All-Big 12 after the second consecutive year and was a teams were bi-district finalists and District ry. With injuries also to young TEs Josh catching 26 passes for 348 yards and two first-round selection (No. 5 overall) of Champions both years. Marshall and Ian Harris, Smith moved TDs, while Thomas earned second team the New Orleans Saints in the 1999 NFL From 1993-95, Chambers served as over from the offensive line and combined All-Big 12 honors with 25 receptions for Draft. Williams’ success was due in part Carter’s varsity offensive coordinator and with senior Peter Ullman to provide solid 430 yards and five TDs. The tight ends were to his lead blocker and versatile backfield assistant head coach. The Cowboys were blocking. also instrumental in the running game in mate Ricky Brown, who earned honorable area finalists and District Champions dur- in 2007, Chambers led a tight ends 2004. Their blocking helped UT finish sec- mention All-Big 12 honors despite limited ing all three of those years. group highlighted by Finley. The sopho- ond nationally in rushing (299.2 ypg). carries in ‘98. prior to that, Chambers coached on more started all 13 games and caught 45 in 2003, Chambers guided a unit in 1999, Mitchell stepped to the fore- the defensive side of the ball from 1989-92 passes (No. 2 on the UT single-season list) that combined to catch 30 passes for 415 front of the Longhorns backfield. Not only and served as coordinator. During that for 575 yards (No. 3 on the UT single- yards and five TDs. Scaife and Thomas did he earn first-team All-Big 12 accolades time, Carter was a state semifinalist and season list) and two TDs. each earned honorable mention All-Big 12 under Chambers’ direction, but he also two-time District Champion. Chambers had the difficult task of honors from The Associated Press. became only the eighth running back in a four-year letterman as a wide replacing statistically the greatest tight in his first five seasons at Texas, UT history to rush for 1,000 yards in a receiver and a two-time letterwinner in end in UT history for 2006 after David Chambers coached three of the nine season and the first in school history to track & field at North Texas, Chambers Thomas’ graduation. However, under 1,000-yard rushers (Ricky Williams, 1998 rush for 1,000 yards and tally 300 receiving earned his degree in journalism in 1982. Chambers’ guidance, Finley broke all of / Hodges Mitchell, 1999-2000 / Cedric yards in a single season. Mitchell’s 1,343 He began his coaching career in 1984 as a the freshman tight end receiving records. Ben­son, 2001-02) in school history and rushing yards in 1999 also marked the freshman coach at Carter and then moved He finished with 31 receptions for 272 became the first position coach since Fred fifth-highest rushing output in UT history, over to tutor the junior varsity’s offense yards and three TDs and was named hon- Akers (with Roosevelt Leaks and Earl while his 1,824 all-purpose yards rank sev- from 1986-88. orable mention Freshman All-America. Campbell in ‘73 and ‘74-75, respectively) enth on the school’s single-season chart. while at Carter, Chambers helped in 2005, Chambers guided Thomas to to have two different backs earn first-team Under Chambers’ direction, Mitchell develop future NFL players Jessie Armstead one of the best seasons by a tight end in UT all-conference honors in three consecutive again earned first-team All-Big 12 honors (LB, New York Giants & Washington history. Thomas, who earned first-team seasons (Williams, 1998 / Mitchell, 1999- in 2000. He posted a pair of 200-yard Redskins), Jirmetrius Butler (CB, St. Louis All-Big 12 honors, set the single-season 2000). He coached a 1,000-yard rusher rushing games, set a Big 12 and UT single- Rams), Greg Hill (RB, Kansas City Chiefs record for receptions by a tight end with in each of his five years as UT’s running game all-purpose yardage record (375, & Detroit Lions), Kendall Jacox (OL, New 50, finished second on the single-season backs coach. at Kansas), registered another 1,000-yard Orleans Saints) and Darryl Jones (WR, list with 613 yards and tied for third with the Longhorns featured one of the rushing season (1,118/No. 11 on UT’s New York Giants). five TD receptions. In all, Thomas rewrote Big 12’s top backfields in Chambers’ first all-time list) and posted the third-most all- Chambers’ wife’s name is Cathy. the record book, finishing his career as year at UT, as Williams, the Heisman purpose yards in a season (1,931). Mitchell Texas’ all-time tight-end leader in recep- Trophy winner, led the nation in rushing finished his career sixth on UT’s all-time tions (98), yards (1,367) and TDs (15). (193.1 ypg) and posted the fifth-highest rushing chart (2,664 yards) and fourth on

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assistant strength and conditioning the DAVIS file coach with the Miami Dolphins under Hometown______Magee, Miss. Nick Saban. High school______Magee (Magee, Miss.) prior to his stint with the College______LSU ’93 Dolphins, Davis spent four years Year in coaching______17th (2002-05) as an assistant strength Wife______Omeika and conditioning coach at LSU under Children______Beau, Jackson, Juliana Saban and current Tigers head coach Les Miles. LSU went to four straight bowls in that span, winning two of Coaching Assignments them, including the 2004 Sugar Bowl 2011-______Defensive Tackles ______Texas for the 2003 National Championship, 2007-10______Defensive Line______Alabama while posting a 41-11 (.788) record. 2006______Defensive Line/Strength and Conditioning______Miami Dolphins Davis joined the LSU strength 2002-05______Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach______LSU and conditioning staff as assistant 1998-2001_____Assistant Coach______North Shore HS (Texas) coordinator in June 2002. He came 1995-97______Strength and Conditioning Graduate Assistant______LSU to the Tigers from North Shore High School in Galena Park, Texas, where o Davis joined the Texas coach- College Bowl Experience he served as an assistant coach from ing staff as defensive tackles 1997-2002 and coached former coach in January 2011. He 2011______Capital One Bowl______Alabama Longhorns All-American and current spentB eight of the last nine years as 2010______BCS National Championship______Alabama^ Baltimore Ravens DT Cory Redding. a member of Nick Saban’s staffs at 2009______Sugar Bowl______Alabama Davis earned second team All- Alabama, LSU and with the Miami 2007______Indepdence Bowl______Alabama SEC honors as a senior nose guard Dolphins. 2005______Peach Bowl______LSU at LSU in 1992 after starting all 11 he comes to Texas after spending 2005______Capital One Bowl______LSU games, recording 66 tackles, includ- four seasons with the Crimson Tide 2004______Sugar Bowl______LSU^ ing four tackles for loss. He lettered as defensive line coach where he was 2003______Cotton Bowl______LSU for the Tigers from 1990-92 and 1997______Independence Bowl______LSU a part of defenses that consistently finished his college career with 90 1996______Peach Bowl______LSU led the Southeastern Conference and 1995______Independence Bowl______LSU tackles, one sack and one fumble ranked in the Top 10 in the nation in recovery. most of the major statistical catego- ^National Champions a native of Magee, Miss., Davis ries. graduated from LSU in 1993 and then alabama posted a record of 42-10 sive lineman Marcell Dareus earned in 2008, Alabama ranked sec- served as a graduate assistant with (.808) during Davis’ four-year stretch, second-team All-America and first- ond nationally in rushing defense, the LSU strength and conditioning including a mark of 35-4 (.897) in team All-SEC honors. allowing just 74.1 yards per game on program from 1995-1997. the last three seasons. The Tide also Davis’ 2009 defensive line was the ground. UA also ranked third in Davis and his wife, Omeika, have won three of its four bowls in that again key in setting the tone for a the country in total defense (263.5 two sons, Beau and Jackson, and a span and the 2009 BCS National defense that ranked second nationally ypg) and seventh in scoring defense daughter, Juliana. Championship. and led the SEC in the same four cat- (14.3 ppg). Davis added Cody to the alabama has finished in the top egories - rushing defense (78.1 ypg), starting lineup at nose guard and the 10 in each of the last three seasons, pass efficiency defense (87.7), total junior was named All-America in his ranking No. 10 in 2010 following a defense (244.1) and scoring defense first season. 49-7 win over No. 7 Michigan State in (11.7 ppg). Nose guard Terrence Cody Under Davis’ watch in 2007, the Capital One Bowl, No. 1 in 2009 earned consensus All-America hon- senior defensive end Wallace Gilberry and No. 6 in 2008. ors for the second straight season and put together one of the finest sea- in 2010, Davis helped guide a was a finalist for the Lombardi Award, sons by an end in Alabama history. defense that ranked fourth in the Nagurski Trophy and Bednarik Gilberry earned first team All-SEC nation in scoring defense (13.5 ppg), Award. Lorenzo Washington and status, leading the league in tackles fifth in total defense (286.4 ypg), Brandon Deaderick anchored the for loss (27) and finishing second in ninth in rushing defense (110.2 ypg) defensive end positions while Dareus sacks (10). and seventh in pass efficiency defense emerged as a pass-rusher and led the Davis joined the Crimson Tide (103.5), while leading the SEC in all team with 6.5 sacks. staff after serving the 2006 season as four categories. Under Davis, defen- an assistant defensive line coach and

92 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Oscar Giles Defensive Ends

the giles file of the Year honors. Orakpo was also named Defensive Freshman of the Hometown______Palacios, Texas Year by The Sporting News. High school______Palacios (Palacios, Texas) giles spent the previous two College______Texas ‘91 seasons as an assistant coach at the Year in coaching______14th University of Houston, where he Wife______Kim worked with the Cougars’ defensive Children______Olivia, Kourtney line. He joined the Houston staff prior to the 2003 season after spending Coaching Assignments three seasons at SMU. Giles helped the Cougars to a 7-6 mark and a spot in 2005-______Defensive Ends______Texas the Hawaii Bowl in 2003, the first bowl 2003-04______Defensive Line______Houston appearance for UH in eight seasons. 2000-02______Defensive Line______SMU after joining the SMU staff in the 1999______Graduate Assistant______Texas spring of 2000, Giles tutored a defen- 1998______Defensive Line______Southwest Texas sive line that developed into a unit that led the Western Athletic Conference College Bowl Experience and ranked 22nd nationally in total scar Giles is in his seventh sea- defense (320.1 yards per game) in son as defensive ends coach at 2010______BCS National Championship______Texas 2001. He was kept on by new Mustang 2009______Fiesta Bowl______Texas The University of Texas. This coach Phil Bennett and remained at 2007______Holiday Bowl______Texas Ois Giles’ second coaching stint with the SMU for the 2002 season. 2006______Alamo Bowl______Texas Longhorns after serving as a graduate 2006______Rose Bowl______Texas^ giles was a graduate assis- assistant in 1999. He also was an all- 2003______Hawaii Bowl______Houston tant coach at Texas in 1999, where conference player at Texas. 2000______Cotton Bowl______Texas he assisted with defensive backs and Last season under Giles, senior 1991______Cotton Bowl______Texas* helped the Longhorns earn a Big 12 DE Sam Acho became one of the most 1987______Bluebonnet Bowl______Texas* South Division Championship, a spot decorated players in UT history. Acho in the Big 12 Championship game and won the William V. Campbell Trophy, ^National Champions / *as a player a Cotton Bowl berth. the Wuerffel Trophy and the ARA prior to accepting a graduate assis- Sportsmanship Award, along with pressures en route to first-team All- in the fourth round. tant position at UT, Giles coached the becoming UT’s seventh two-time America honors. Junior Sam Acho led in 2007, Giles led a group that defensive line and served as a strength Academic All-American, a second- the team with 10 sacks and was named helped Texas rank sixth in the nation and conditioning coach at Southwest team All-America selection by the a semifinalist for the Lott Trophy. against the run (93.4 ypg). Seeking Texas State (now Texas State) in 1998. WCFF, a member of the AFCA Good Jones contributed five sacks and seven to replace NFL draftees Tim Crowder a four-year letterwinner at Texas Works team and a Lott Trophy final- TFL to a unit that helped the defense (second round, Broncos) and Brian (1987-90), Giles played defensive end ist, while recording 59 tackles, 17 TFL, rank first in rushing defense, third in Robison (fourth round, Vikings), vet- and linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons nine sacks, 18 pressures, five forced total defense, 12th in scoring defense, erans Orakpo and Aaron Lewis began and went on to play in the Canadian fumbles and five fumble recoveries. along with being in the top eight in the season as starters, but both missed Football League from 1994-97 and His five fumble recoveries led the both sacks and TFL. Alex Okafor also significant time due to injury. Despite helped the Toronto Argonauts win the nation and tied the UT single-sea- earned Freshman All-Big 12 honors. missing more than four games, Orakpo Grey Cup Championship in 1996. son record. Acho finished his career Under Giles’ guidance, the 2008 led the team in sacks, while sophomore a three-year starter at UT, Giles ranked second in UT history in fumble season saw Brian Orakpo become Lamarr Houston stepped in to lead the earned AP All-SWC honors as a recoveries with nine, and 10th in sacks one of the most dominant players in team in TFL and pressures. senior when he helped the Longhorns with 23.5, and was chosen in the fourth college football and one of the most the 2006 season saw Giles’ defen- to the 1990 SWC Championship and round of the 2011 Draft by the Arizona honored in UT history. An eventual sive ends produce Texas’ first 10-sack an appearance in the 1991 Cotton Cardinals. Senior Eddie Jones was an first round pick of the Washington season since 1998. Crowder, who Bowl. Texas was 10-2 and finished honorable mention All-Big 12 selec- Redskins, Orakpo became Texas’ 19th earned second-team All-America hon- the year ranked 12th that year. Giles tion and notched 52 tackles (32 solo), unanimous All-American and won ors, was a finalist for the Hendricks also helped the 1987 Longhorns to a six sacks, 10 TFL, 14 pressures and the Nagurski Trophy (nation’s top Award and led the team with 10.5 No. 19 final ranking and a victory in one forced fumble. His six sacks and defensive player), Lombardi Award sacks. Robison also pitched in with the Bluebonnet Bowl. He led Texas 14 pressures both ranked second on (nation’s top lineman) and Hendricks 5.5 sacks and 15 pressures on his way in sacks in 1988 (6.5) and 1989 (7.0) the team behind Acho. True freshman Award (nation’s top defensive end). to second-team All-Big 12 honors. and finished with 22 in his career Jackson Jeffcoat also emerged to earn He was also the Big 12 Defensive Brian Orakpo added 4.5 sacks and 11 (T-No. 10 on the UT all-time list). A Big 12 Honorable Mention Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist for pressures. Overall, the defensive ends semifinalist for the Outland Trophy Freshman of the Year honors and con- the Lott Trophy (nation’s top defen- produced 24.5 sacks, 44 TFL and 59 and two-time GTE Academic All-SWC tributed six TFL, 2.5 sacks and seven sive IMPACT player). Orakpo helped pressures. selection, his nine career fumble recov- pressures despite playing in only eight the Texas defense lead the nation in in his first season with Texas, eries are tied for second on the UT games due to injury. sacks, finishing the season with 11.5 Giles aided in the Longhorns No. 10 all-time chart. Giles was awarded UT’s in 2009, Giles helped mold senior sacks for minus-100 yards, 19 TFL, ranking in total defense (302.9 ypg) Tenacity Award twice during his col- DE/LB Sergio Kindle into the first 30 pressures and four forced fumbles. and a No. 8 ranking in scoring defense legiate career. player in college football history to Giles also helped senior Henry Melton (16.4 ppg). Three of the defensive a native of Palacios, Texas, Giles be a finalist for both the Hendricks make a successful transition from RB ends earned conference honors with earned his Bachelor of Science degree Award (nation’s top DE) and Butkus to a starting role at DE where he regis- Crowder and Robison being named in speech communications from Texas Award (nation’s top LB). Kindle led tered four sacks and 10 TFL and went honorable mention All-Big 12, while in 1991. Giles and his wife, Kim, have the Longhorns with 22 TFL and 36 on to be drafted by the Chicago Bears Orakpo earned Defensive Freshman two daughters, Olivia and Kourtney.

www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com 93 Stacy Searels Offensive Line

in Searels first season at LSU, the the SEARELS file Tigers went 13-1 and won the 2003 Hometown______Trion, Ga. National Championship with a 21-14 High school______Trion (Trion, Ga.) win over Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. College______Auburn ’90 The offense finished the season ranked Year in coaching______20th 19th in the nation in scoring offense Wife______Patricia (33.9 ppg), 27th in rushing offense Children______Taylor, Savannah (185.7 ypg), 31st in total offense (418.4 ypg) and 11th in pass efficiency (149.0). Coaching Assignments searels joined the staff at LSU after a two-year stint as offensive line coach 2011-______Offensive Line______Texas at Cincinnati. While with the Bearcats, 2010______Running Game Coordinator/Offensive Line______Georgia Cincinnati played in two bowl games, 2007-09______Offensive Line______Georgia as well as winning the school’s first 2003-06______Offensive Line______LSU conference title since 1964 by captur- 2001-02______Offensive Line______Cincinnati ing the 2002 Conference USA crown. 1994-2000_____Offensive Line______Appalachian State prior to joining Cincinnati, 1992-93______Graduate Assistant______Auburn Searels served as an assistant coach at Appalachian State from 1994-2000, tacy Searels, the former offensive helping the I-AA Mountaineers to line coach at Georgia and LSU, College Bowl Experience five playoff appearances and a pair of and an All-America offensive 2010______Liberty Bowl______Georgia Southern Conference titles. Slineman as a player at Auburn, was 2009______Independence Bowl______Georgia while at Appalachian State, named offensive line coach at Texas in 2009______Capital One Bowl______Georgia Searels was presented with the NCAA January 2011. 2008______Sugar Bowl______Georgia Award of Valor, recognizing him for searels joined the Longhorns after 2007______Sugar Bowl______LSU his act of courage following a head- coaching the offensive line at Georgia 2005______Peach Bowl______LSU on collision involving a van carrying for four seasons beginning in 2007. 2005______Capital One Bowl______LSU members of the Mountaineers football He added the duties of running game 2004______Sugar Bowl______LSU^ team and support staff on Sept. 30, coordinator in 2009. During his time 2002______New Orleans Bowl______Cincinnati 2000. in Athens, the Bulldogs ranked in the 2001______Motor City Bowl______Cincinnati searels got his start in coaching Top 25 in the nation in fewest sacks 1988______Sugar Bowl______Auburn* as a graduate assistant at Auburn in allowed three times, including ranking 1987______Citrus Bowl______Auburn* 1992, working with a Tigers squad that sixth and leading the SEC in 2009 with 1986______Cotton Bowl______Auburn* posted a perfect 11-0 mark in 1993. just 12. 1984______Liberty Bowl______Auburn* a three-year starter on the offen- in 2010, Georgia finished the sea- 1984______Sugar Bowl______Auburn* sive line at Auburn, Searels earned son ranked 30th in the nation in scor- ^National Champions / *as a player first-team All-America honors from ing offense with an average of 32.1 ppg. both the Associated Press and Football That included a seven-game stretch to Football Coaches Association and LSU’s offensive unit in 2006 fin- News as a senior in 1987. He blocked end the regular season where the offen- become a finalist for the Doak Walker ished first in the SEC in total offense for Heisman Trophy winner Bo sive line helped the team average 41.0 Award, while averaging 107.7 rushing (417.5 ypg/11th NCAA) and scoring Jackson in 1985 and All-America Brent ppg. During that time, the Bulldogs yards per game. Georgia finished the offense (33.7 ppg/ninth NCAA), sec- Fullwood in 1986. scored no fewer than 31 points and season 10-3 and ranked No. 13/10 after ond in rushing offense (165.8/31st searels was a first-team All-SEC topped the 40-point mark five times. defeating Michigan State in the Capital NCAA) and third in passing offense selection as both a junior and senior, Senior Clint Boling led the line and One Bowl. (251.7/18th NCAA) and fewest sacks and he was honored with the team’s was named to the Pro Football Weekly in his first season at Georgia, as allowed (19/24th NCAA). The Tigers Ken Rice Award as the school’s best All-America Team, along with being a in 2008, Searels was faced with start- closed that season ranked third in both blocking lineman in 1987. He played first-team All-SEC selection. ing three freshmen, one of whom was polls with an 11-2 record. in both the Japan Bowl and the Senior Boling also earned first-team All- Boling, whom he helped tutor into searels made a habit of produc- Bowl before becoming a fourth-round SEC honors in 2008 and 2009 under Freshman All-America honors in 2007. ing All-America linemen for LSU. He draft pick by the San Diego Chargers in Searels. In 2009, Georgia completed He also guided C Fernando Velasco coached two first-team All-Americans 1988. He played two seasons with the an 8-5 season with a win over Texas into becoming a second-team All-SEC in Stephen Peterman and Rimington Chargers before moving to the Miami A&M in the Independence Bowl. The selection. Behind that line, Moreno Award winner Ben Wilkerson and a Dolphins in 1990. He ended his pro- Bulldogs averaged 161.0 rushing yards earned first-team All-SEC honors and second-team All-America selection in fessional career in 1991 with the New per game and ranked sixth in the the Bulldogs completed an 11-2 cam- Andrew Whitworth. Five of his Tigers York/New Jersey Knights of the World nation in fewest sacks allowed. paign that ended in a Sugar Bowl win linemen earned spots on NFL rosters. League of American Football. in 2008, Searels took a line that over Hawaii and a final ranking of No. in addition, during that four-year a native of Trion, Ga., Searels was led by Boling, but also featured 2/3. The offense averaged 177.2 rushing stretch, LSU’s offensive line produced graduated from Auburn with a degree three freshman starters, and the unit yards per game, while ranking 34th in a pair of first-team Academic All- in marketing and transportation in ranked among the best in the nation in the nation in scoring offense (32.6 ppg) Americans in Rodney Reed and Rudy 1990. He followed that with a master’s fewest sacks allowed, giving up just 17 and 13th in fewest sacks allowed (15). Niswanger. LSU had an offensive line- degree in higher education administra- (21st NCAA). The offense also ranked searels arrived at Georgia in man named first-team Academic All- tion from Auburn in 1995. 22nd in total offense (426.0 ypg), 29th January 2007, after serving four years America in four straight years. searels is married to the for- in scoring offense (31.5 ppg) and 16th coaching the offensive line at LSU from niswanger became one of the most mer Patricia Hale, and they have two in passing offense (277.7 ypg). 2003-06. During that time, the Tigers decorated student-athletes in school daughters, Taylor and Savannah. even while blocking for a high- won a National Championship (2003), history in 2005, winning the Draddy powered passing attack, the line helped a SEC Championship (2003), and two Trophy as college football’s top scholar- RB Knowshon Moreno garner All- SEC West titles (2003 and 2005), while athlete, as well as being the inaugural America honors from the American compiling a 44-8 record. recipient of the Wuerffel Trophy. 94 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Darrell Wyatt Co-Recruiting Coordinator/Wide Receivers

the WYATT file Before coaching in Minnesota, Wyatt spent four seasons at Hometown______Killeen, Texas Oklahoma. He helped the Sooners to High school______Killeen (Killeen, Texas) four bowl games as the wide receiv- College______Kansas State ’88 ers coach and was the passing game Year in coaching______23rd coordinator in his final year. In 2004, Wife______Cindy he coached three receivers who were Children______Desmond, Charese first-day picks in the 2005 NFL Draft, and who started professionally as Coaching Assignments rookies. wyatt spent the 2001 season at 2011-______Co-Recruiting Coordinator/Wide Receivers______Texas 2010______Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers ______Kansas Oklahoma State as passing game coor- 2008-09_____ Assoc. Head Coach/Off. Coord./WRs ______Southern Mississippi dinator and wide receivers coach. At 2007______Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers______Arizona OSU, he guided WR Rashaun Woods, 2006______Wide Receivers______Minnesota Vikings who ranked seventh in the nation 2005______Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers______Oklahoma in receptions that year and went on 2002-04_____ Wide Receivers ______Oklahoma to become a first-round selection in 2001______Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers______Oklahoma State the 2004 NFL draft. He joined the arrell Wyatt was named wide 2000______Assoc. Head Coach/Off. Coord./Wide Receivers______Kansas Cowboys following his first stint at receivers coach/co-recruit- 1998-99_____ Assistant Head Coach/Wide Receivers______Kansas Kansas, where he spent four seasons, ing coordinator at Texas in 1997______Wide Receivers______Kansas the last of which was as offensive DJanuary 2011. 1996______Wide Receivers______Baylor coordinator in 2000. prior to joining the Longhorns, 1995______Wide Receivers______Wyoming wyatt started his coaching Wyatt spent 2010 as co-offensive 1992-94_____ Wide Receivers______Sam Houston State career at Trinity Valley CC (1989- coordinator/wide receivers coach 1989-91_____ Wide Receivers/Defensive Backs______Trinity Valley CC 91) in Athens, Texas, before continu- at Kansas. Under new head coach ing at Sam Houston State (1992-94), Turner Gill, the Jayhawks were tran- College Bowl Experience Wyoming (1995) and Baylor (1996). sitioning from an offense that lost one 2009______New Orleans Bowl______Southern Mississippi he started his collegiate playing of the nation’s top quarterbacks in 2008______New Orleans Bowl______Southern Mississippi career as a wide receiver at Trinity Todd Reesing and two of the nation’s 2005______Holiday Bowl______Oklahoma Valley CC before playing two seasons top 10 wide receivers in Dezmon 2005______Orange Bowl______Oklahoma at Kansas State (1987-88). He gradu- Briscoe and Kerry Meier. Despite 2004______Sugar Bowl______Oklahoma ated from KSU with a degree in soci- that, Wyatt helped guide junior WR 2003______Rose Bowl______Oklahoma ology in 1989. Daymond Patterson to 60 receptions. wyatt is a native of Killeen, in 2008-09, Wyatt was the asso- leader in all-purpose yards (6,253) per game, which led the conference Texas, and earned All-Central Texas ciate head coach/offensive coordina- and rushing yards (5,302) and was and ranked 17th nationally. QB honors in football at Killeen High tor/wide receivers coach at Southern a second-team All-Conference USA Austin Davis also ranked 17th in the School. He and his wife Cindy have Mississippi. In two seasons with the selection along with Brown and TE nation in total offense with 279.7 ypg. two children, Desmond and Charese. Golden Eagles, Wyatt’s offenses were Leroy Banks, while OL Ryan Hebert wyatt spent the 2007 season as among the nation’s best. earned first-team honors. passing game coordinator and wide the 2009 season saw USM pro- in 2008, USM broke 36 offen- receivers coach at the University of duce the nation’s 18th-ranked scor- sive school records en route to pro- Arizona. The Wildcats ranked 10th in ing offense (32.9 ppg) and rank ducing 5,636 yards of total offense the nation in passing at 308.5 yards 31st in total offense (416.4 ypg). and 433.5 ypg (20th NCAA), which per game, led by junior WR Mike The offense’s 428 points that season were both school USM records. The Thomas, who ranked 17th nationally were a school record. Wyatt guided offense ranked in the top 40 nation- in receptions after pulling in 83 for a balanced attack that ranked 33rd ally in both rushing offense (192.5 1,038 yards and 11 TDs and earned in rushing offense (181.4 ypg) and ypg) and passing offense (241.1 ypg), first-team All-Pac 10 honors. Thomas 43rd in passing offense (235.0 ypg), while averaging 30.6 ppg, which was ended his career as Arizona’s all-time with an even higher ranking pass 31st nationally. Many of the season’s leading receiver and was selected by efficiency offense that was 13th in records included Brown, who was a the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2009 the nation with a 147.3 rating. RB freshman in 2008 and set the school NFL Draft. Eight players on the Damion Fletcher and WR DeAndre single-season receptions record with Arizona roster had at least 20 recep- Brown both ranked in the top 50 in 67 to go along with 1,117 receiv- tions and 200 receiving yards, while the nation in rushing and receptions, ing yards. His 85.9 receiving yards five players had at least 35 receptions respectively, while QB Martevious per game ranked 22nd in the nation, and 400 receiving yards. Young was in the top 20 in pass and he was named first-team fresh- wyatt gained NFL expereince efficiency. Fletcher finished his career man All-America, Conference USA in 2006 as wide receivers coach with as one of a handful of backs, along Freshman of the Year and first-team the Minnesota Vikings. Five differ- with Texas’ Cedric Benson to rush for All-Conference USA. Meanwhile ent receivers finished the season over 1,000 yards in all four seasons. Fletcher was also named first-team with 20-plus catches, led by Travis He also finished as USM’s all-time All-CUSA and rushed for 109.4 yards Taylor’s 57.

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the madden file in psychology and secondary educa- tion and a stint in the USFL, he served Hometown______Cleveland, Ohio as both a graduate assistant football High school______St. Joseph’s (Cleveland, Ohio) and strength & conditioning coach at College______Vanderbilt ’83 the University of Cincinnati in 1983. Wife______Brenda he began his career in strength Children______Brandon, Bryan training and conditioning at Rice in 1984 and moved to Colorado in Coaching Assignments 1989. As assistant athletics director 1998-______Assistant AD/Strength & Conditioning______Texas at CU, he coordinated strength and 1993-97______Assoc. AD/Student-Athlete Development______North Carolina conditioning programs for all 15 of 1989-92______Assistant AD/Strength & Conditioning______Colorado the Buffaloes’ intercollegiate sports. 1984-88______Strength & Conditioning Coach______Rice Madden then joined the athletics staff 1983______Graduate Assistant Football Coach/______Cincinnati at North Carolina following the 1992 ______Strength & Conditioning Coach______season. included among his students College Bowl Experience are two Heisman Trophy winners -- eff Madden, who has been hon- Rashaan Saalam of Colorado (1994) ored by his peers as one of the 2010______BCS National Championship______Texas 2009______Fiesta Bowl______Texas and Ricky Williams of Texas (1998), nation’s leading authorities on 2007______Holiday Bowl______Texas along with two runners up in Vince Jphysical development, is in his 14th 2006______Alamo Bowl______Texas Young (2005) and Colt McCoy (2008), year as the assistant athletics direc- 2006______Rose Bowl______Texas^ who was also a finalist in 2009. tor for strength and conditioning 2005______Rose Bowl______Texas He has worked with three Walter at The University of Texas. He was 2003______Holiday Bowl______Texas Camp Football Foundation Players 2003______Cotton Bowl______Texas inducted into the USA Strength and of the Year, two Nagurski Trophy 2001______Holiday Bowl______Texas Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame winners, which honors the nation’s in June 2003, and in May 2009, he 2000______Holiday Bowl______Texas 2000______Cotton Bowl______Texas top defensive player, two Thorpe was elected president of the Collegiate 1999______Cotton Bowl______Texas Award winners, which recognizes the Strength and Conditioning Coaches 1998______Gator Bowl______North Carolina nation’s outstanding defensive back, Association. Among his other honors, 1997______Gator Bowl______North Carolina two Butkus Award winners, which he has also been named the 2004 1995______Carquest Bowl______North Carolina salutes the nation’s top linebacker, National Collegiate Strength and 1994______Sun Bowl______North Carolina two Doak Walker Award winners for 1993______Gator Bowl______North Carolina Conditioning Coach of the Year by the nation’s top running back, along 1993______Fiesta Bowl______Colorado the Professional Football Strength with winners of the Lombardi Award and Conditioning Coaches Society 1992______Blockbuster Bowl______Colorado 1991______Orange Bowl______Colorado^ (nation’s top lineman), Hendricks and the 2005 College Strength and 1990______Orange Bowl______Colorado Award (nation’s top defensive end), Conditioning Coach of the Year by 1982______Hall of Fame Bowl______Vanderbilt* Manning Award, Davey O’Brien Samson Equipment. Award and Unitas Golden Arm ^National Champions / *as a player Madden, who is currently Award for the nation’s top quarter- the President of the Collegiate athletics director for student-athlete creation of some of the nation’s lead- back. Strength and Conditioning Coaches development. At Carolina, Madden ing collegiate strength and condition- Madden is a member of the board Association (CSCCA) was one of was responsible for 28 intercollegiate ing facilities. The Nassar Al-Rashid of directors of Peak Performance just 10 coaches nationally to receive varsity sports and more than 750 weight room is Madden’s fourth USA, is on the editorial advisory the title of Master Strength and student-athletes. facility, and it contains state-of-the- board of Sports Speed magazine and Conditioning Coach at the Collegiate Recognized worldwide as art, cutting-edge equipment that is is a certified expert by the National Strength and Conditioning Coaches an authority on explosive power user-friendly and second-to-none in Association of Speed and Explosion. Association convention in 2001. The training, Madden was named the design implementation. He also has a 602-pound bench press honor represents what the association National Strength and Conditioning Madden, who oversees strength to his credit, making him one of the says “is the highest honor that can Specialist of the Year in 1996 by training and conditioning for men’s top bench pressers in the world. be achieved as a strength and condi- the International Sports Sciences and women’s intercollegiate sports at Madden was certified in May tioning coach and represents profes- Association. He also was recog- UT, has worked with more than 200 1991 by the International Sports sionalism, knowledge, experience and nized as a Master Elite Strength and NFL players (including 34 first-round Sciences Association (ISSA), recog- expertise.” Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate picks) and 16 Olympians during his nizing him as one of the world leaders he also was honored with the Strength and Conditioning Coaches 29-year career at Rice, Colorado, in the profession of sports develop- Culligan Holiday Bowl’s Admiral U.S. Association in 2000. North Carolina and Texas. ment. He also was a unanimous selec- Grant Sharp Trophy in 2000, which in 1988, Madden was certified by a three-year letterwinner and tion to the ISSA Board of Directors. was voted on by the Longhorns team the National Association of Speed and 1983 graduate of Vanderbilt, Madden Madden and his wife, Brenda, and is bestowed upon an individual Explosion (NASE). The Longhorns was a high school All-American in his have two sons, Brandon and Bryan. that is dedicated to team success. strength and conditioning coach has hometown of Cleveland. After earn- Madden came to UT from North played a critical role in the design and ing a degree in sociology with a minor Carolina, where he served as associate

96 2011 Texas Football Guide • Coaches & Staff Bennie Wylie Strength & Conditioning Head Coach for Football

the WYLIE file ing with the Cowboys, Wylie also spent the spring seasons heading the Hometown______Mexia, Texas strength and conditioning program High school______Mexia (Mexia, Texas) for the Dallas Desperados arena foot- College______Sam Houston State ’99 ball team, a property of the Dallas Wife______Jennifer Cowboys. The Cowboys had nine Pro Children______Braden, Caden Bowl selections during Wylie’s four seasons in Dallas. Coaching Assignments wylie is a member of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning 2011-______Strength & Conditioning Head Coach for Football______Texas Coaches Association and the Titleist 2010______Football Head Strength & Conditioning Coach______Tennessee 2003-09______Football Head Strength & Conditioning Coach______Texas Tech Performance Institute. 2002______Head Strength & Conditioning Coach______Dallas Desperados the Mexia, Texas native grad- 1999-2002_____Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach______Dallas Cowboys uated from Sam Houston State 1998______Interim Head Strength & Conditioning Coach_ Sam Houston State University, where he was a four-year letterman in football from 1994-97. College Bowl Experience He was an All-Southland Conference exas native Bennie Wylie running back as a senior in 1997 2010______Music City Bowl______Tennessee joined the Longhorns staff in after averaging 4.8 yards per carry 2009______Alamo Bowl______Texas Tech January 2011 as strength and and leading the Bearkats in rushing. conditioningT head coach for football. 2009______Cotton Bowl______Texas Tech 2008______Gator Bowl______Texas Tech In 1994, he was named the Bearkats wylie came to Texas from 2006______Insight Bowl______Texas Tech Freshman of the Year. He received a Tennessee where he spent one season 2006______Cotton Bowl______Texas Tech degree in kinesiology in 1999. as football head strength coach after 2003______Holiday Bowl______Texas Tech wylie and his wife, the former serving the previous seven seasons at Jennifer Small of Plano, Texas, have wylie guided the develop- AT&T All-America Player of the Texas Tech. twin sons, 5-year-olds Braden and ment of 14 NFL draft picks while at Year, won the Unitas Golden Arm During his time in Lubbock, Caden. Wylie established himself as one of Texas Tech, including WR Michael Award as the nation’s top senior QB, the top strength coaches in the coun- Crabtree, who was selected 10th and finished fourth in the Heisman try. His last five seasons helped the overall in the 2009 draft. That draft Trophy balloting. Red Raiders produce a 46-18 overall featured four Red Raiders selected prior to his position at Texas record that was third-best in the Big in the first four rounds. Crabtree Tech, Wylie was an assistant strength 12, including an 11-2 season in 2008. also won back-to-back Biletnikoff and conditioning coach with the The Red Raiders also posted a 5-2 Awards as the nation’s top receiver Dallas Cowboys for four seasons, record in bowls during his seven- in 2007 and 2008. In addition in helping implement rehabilitation for year span. 2008, QB Graham Harrell was named injured players. In addition to work-

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