Fred Akers -- Football

Lettered in football at Arkansas in 1958 and '59.
Wyoming in 1975 (2-9) and 1976 (8-4).
Coached Texas from 1977-86 and led them to an 86-31-2 record in 10 seasons. Texas went to nine bowl games under Akers.
AFCA Regional Coach of the Year at Wyoming in 1976 & Texas 1977.
Coached Purdue from 1987-90 and led them to a 12-31-1 record. Yearly records.

Laura Alford -- Associate Head Women's Volleyball Coach, University of California - Irvine

(as of volleyball season 2003) Laura Alford is in her second season (2001) as the associate head coach for the UCI women's volleyball program. Alford came to UCI after serving as the head coach at the University of Cincinnati from 1997-99. In 1999, Alford guided Cincinnati to a 28-7 overall record, the Conference USA title and the Bearcats' first NCAA tournament appearance since 1981. While at Cincinnati, Alford coached the Bearcats to three 20-win seasons.
Alford, a Santa Ana, Calif., native, served as assistant coach at Arkansas for two seasons before becoming the Bearcats' head coach. She is a 1990 graduate of the University of Hawaii, where she was a member of the national runner-up team in 1988. Following graduation, Alford served as a graduate assistant for the Rainbow Wahine from 1991-93. She returned to Southern California as assistant coach at Cal State Northridge for the 1993 season.
She played one season at Golden West College, where she was an All-American and conference MVP in 1987. She began her collegiate career at Rhode Island in 1986. The graduate of Foothill High School played and coached with Charlie Brande at the Orange County Volleyball Club. She served as one of the club's head coaches from 1987-91 and 1993.

Gary Anderson -- Head Coach, Arkansas Twisters (AFL2)

*Fired on May 1, 2005

(as of football season 2005) Gary Anderson is the Head Coach of the Arkansas Twisters. Anderson took over the head coaching duties after spending 2001 season as an assistant coach for the Twisters in charge of special teams and running backs. Anderson starred at running back and wide receiver for the University of Arkansas from 1979-82 and is regarded as one of the best athletes to ever play for the Razorbacks. He finished his college career with 392 rushes for 1,999 yards and 94 receptions for 1,075 yards. Anderson was voted as a member of the Razorback's All-Decade team for the 1980's. In 1983, Anderson was a first-round draft pick in both the NFL and USFL draft. He played for the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL his first three seasons as a professional and gained over 1,000 yards two of the three years. After the demise of the USFL in 1985, Gary moved on to play for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL from 1985-90. In his five seasons with the Chargers, Gary gained 3,409 yards on 321 carries and had 302 receptions for 2,999 yards. He was named the Chargers MVP twice and was selected to the NFL All-Pro team once during his stay in San Diego. Gary returned to Tampa Bay in 1991, this time with the NFL's Buccaneers. From 1991 to 1993, he carried the ball 321 times for 1,159 yards. He finished his NFL career in 1993 with the Detroit Lions.

Year	Team	Wins	Losses
2001	Arkansas Twisters	6	10
2002	Arkansas Twisters	11	6
2003	Arkansas Twisters	11	8
2004	Arkansas Twisters	4	12
2005	Arkansas Twisters	0	4
5 yrs	AF2 Totals	32	40

Derick Atchley -- Assistant Football Coach, Ranger (TX) Community College

(as of football season 2002) Derick Atchley comes to Ranger from the University of Arkansas, where he spent one season as graduate assistant strength coach and volunteer with the Razorback athletic programs.
He was an all-conference linebacker for Kilgore Junior College in 1992-93, then went on to Murray State University in Murray, Ky., where he earned a bachelor of science in exercise physiology and played on the 1995 Ohio Valley Conference championship football team.
From there, he earned a master of science degree at Mississippi State while working as a graduate assistant strength coach. Atchley is from Haleyville, Ala.

Denise Baez -- Assistant Volleyball Coach, Purdue Boilermakers

(as of volleyball season 2002) Denise Baez enters her first year (2001) as assistant coach for Purdue volleyball. Baez's responsibilities include in-state recruiting, organizing player appearances and team compliance issues.

Baez got to know Leaton very well at Arkansas. Leaton served as the Razorbacks' assistant coach while Baez was an outside hitter.

Baez's professional career also started in her Arkansas days. While a student-athlete at Arkansas, Baez coached at numerous camps, including Central Arkansas, Aracadiana Area and Arkansas.

Upon graduating, she coached Sports Express, a junior volleyball team, in Mason, Ohio. While in Ohio, she also served as an assistant at Cincinnati.

Baez's next job placed her in an assistant coaching position on Don Hardin's staff at Illinois. Jeff Hulsmeyer was also an Illini assistant at that time.

Bill Barnes -- Football

Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Bill Barnes played football at Central High School where he was named All-Southern his senior year.
Upon graduation Barnes was recruited by many of the top schools in the SEC, but then Major Robert R. Neyland, Athletic Director and Head Football coach at the University of Tennessee, made sure Barnes found his way to Knoxville.
During the three years Bill Barnes played for Tennessee the team lost only three regular season games. His junior year UT won 11 games before losing to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. The next year, Barnes senior season, the 1939 Tennessee team was undefeated and unscored upon in regular season play.
Following graduation and a brief stint in high school coaching, Barnes entered World War II and was assigned to the South Pacific. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star prior to his discharge in 1946 with the rank of Major.
His first college coaching position was at the University of Arkansas where he remained until 1949 when he joined Coach Red Sanders at UCLA. He served as assistant on the UCLA staff until 1958 when he was named head coach of the Bruins and served in that position until 1964. He had a record of 31-34-3 at UCLA.
He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Yearly records.

John Barnhill -- Football / Athletic Director

John Henry Barnhill was born on February 21, 1903 in the Walkertown community of Hardin County, TN. He was the youngest son of James Monroe Barnhill Jr. and Margaret Alice Bryan. He married Katherine Peeler and had one daughter, Nancy. John attended school in Hardin County and graduated in 1923 from what was then called the Savannah Institute. After graduation he moved to Memphis where he attended the West Tennessee State Normal School which was later known as Memphis State University and presently known as The University of Memphis. It was at the West Tennessee State Normal School that he became known for his football talents. John played center on the school's team.  
After one year Barnhill transferred to Knoxville to play football for the University of Tennessee under Robert Neyland. In 1927 he was named Captain of the team who produced Neyland's first undefeated season. At UT Knoxville John not only excelled on the football field but also played basketball and ran track. Between 1925-1927 while he was at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Barnhill was awarded nine letters and was twice named "Volunteer Athlete of the Year". During the 1926-27 school year he was named All-Southern guard. He was chosen to play in the Los Angeles All-Star game in 1927.  
After graduation Barnhill began his coaching career on the high school level in Bristol, Tennessee . It was in Bristol where he coached University of Tennessee standout Beattie Feathers who later became a Hall of Famer and All-American.   
In 1931 John returned to his alma mater to serve as freshman coach under Robert Neyland. In 1934 he was promoted to line coach. During World War II Coach Neyland was recalled to active military duty and this gave Barnhill the opportunity to step into the position of head coach. This new position provided Barnhill with the chance to establish himself as one of the outstanding young coaches in the nation. During the four years he served at UT his winning percentage was 84.6. Between 1941-1945 the football team under the leadership of John Barnhill produced a 32-5-2 record. In 1943 UT did not field a team because of the massive buildup for World War II. In 1944 Barnhill was named the Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year.  
In 1946 Robert Neyland returned to his coaching duties at UT and Barnhill decided to leave UT and look for his own head coaching job. After receiving several offers John decided on the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He assumed the head Razorback post in 1949.  
Barnhill coached at the University of Arkansas for four years with a modest record of 22-17-3.  John had received many honors as a player and a coach at UT but it was in his next position as Athletic Director at the University of Arkansas that he made his most noteworthy accomplishments. Under his direction the University of Arkansas became a powerhouse in the Southwestern Conference and the nation. Barnhill has been regarded as person who made the University of Arkansas athletic program of today.  While athletic director Arkansas became a national powerhouse in football, track, basketball, and golf. Under his leadership the Arkansas football team won eight Southwest Conference titles, a national championship and was ranked in the top ten on nine occasions.  
As a tribute to the successful career of John Barnhill the University of Arkansas constructed and named their gymnasium Barnhill Arena. The Bud Walton Arena has since replaced this arena. He was named to both the Tennessee and Arkansas Halls of Fame. In 1972 John Barnhill was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the National Association of Athletic Directors.   
It is even more remarkable that Barnhill was able to achieve the successes in his career when you consider that he suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years.  When he lost the use of his right side in the 1950s he simply learned to write left-handed and remained active until his retirement in 1970. Yearly records.
John Barnhill died on October 21, 1973 at the age of seventy. 

Augrista Belford -- Assistant Softball Coach, Palomar College

(as of softball season 2004) 1996 Community College Player of the Year Augrista Belford returned to her alma mater in 1999 to serve as an assistant coach. She was a two-time JC All-American and two-time All-California State selection in 1995 and 1996 and holds 10 Palomar records.
Belford attended the University of Arkansas where she was named to the All-Southeastern Conference team as a junior and received her B.A. degree in Psychology from Cal State University Northridge, where she played as a member of a Big West Conference championship team.

Mike Bender -- Football

Bender, a native of Strong, Ark., attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville on a football scholarship. As a Razorback, Bender started on the national championship team, was selected to the All-Southwest Conference Team, was team captain his senior year and played in two Cotton Bowls and the Sugar Bowl.
With his name secure in the history books on the collegiate level, Bender moved on to the pros where he played for the Atlanta Falcons during the team's inaugural season in 1966.
Bender's career as a pro was shortened by shoulder injuries after two years.
Bender moved on to what would be a long and successful career of coaching. He paid his dues coaching in the high school ranks for eight years before landing a job as Offensive Tackle Coach at the University of Arkansas under head coach Lou Holtz.
He also coached for the University of New Mexico, the University of South Carolina, Rice University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas before coaching professionally for the Sacramento Gold Miners and the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League. He took over at United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS) in 2000 and coached there until 2002. Bender became the Athletic Director at Forrest City (AR) High School on March 25, 2002. He moved on to become the AD at El Dorado (AR) High School in 2007. He coached at El Dorado high school from 1974-78, compiling an 18-33-2 record.

Raymond E. Berry -- Football

b. Feb. 27, 1933, Corpus Christi, TX

Career Statistics
Hard work finally made Berry a star, but not until his third season of professional football. As an end at Southern Methodist University, he caught only 33 passes and scored 1 touchdown in 3 seasons. When he joined the Baltimore Colts in 1955, he was given little chance to make the team. However, coach "Weeb" Ewbank was impressed with Berry's practice habits and his good hands and kept him as a part-time player.
In 1957, Berry became a starting end and led the NFL in reception yardage with 800 on 47 catches, scoring 6 touchdowns. When the Colts won the league's championship in 1958, Berry led in receptions with 56 and in touchdown receptions with 9, gaining 794 yards. He had an additional 12 catches for 194 yards and 1 touchdown in the Colts' celebrated 23-17 overtime victory over the New York Giants in the NFL title game.
Berry led the league in 1959 with 74 receptions, 959 yards, and 14 touchdowns, and led in receptions with 74 and yards with 1,298 the following season before undergoing knee surgery. Because of the operation, he was used primarily as a possession receiver for the rest of his career. In 1961, he caught 75 passes, his career high, but gained only 873 yards and didn't score.
Berry retired after catching only 11 passes in 1967. He held NFL records, since broken, with 631 receptions and 9,275 yards. He caught 68 touchdown passes.
Berry took over as head coach of the New England Patriots in 1984. The Patriots got into the playoffs as a wild-card team in 1985 and won three games on the road to reach the Super Bowl, where they were demolished 46-10 by the Chicago Bears. They won the AFC Eastern Division title in 1986 but lost to the Denver Broncos in the first round of the playoffs. Berry resigned during the 1989 season with a 51-41 record.

Formed exceptional pass-catch team with Johnny Unitas ... Caught then-record 631 passes for 9,275 yards, 68 touchdowns ... All-NFL in 1958, 1959, 1960 ... Played in five Pro Bowl games ... Set NFL title game mark with 12 catches for 178 yards in 1958 overtime game.

High School: Paris (TX) ... Drafted: 20th round (232nd overall) by Baltimore Colts in 1954.

Assistant coach at Arkansas from 1970-71.

SMU, Football, '55; Inducted into SMU HOF: '93

*Graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in business administration, 1955.

*Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1973.

Clifford Blackburn -- Football

Clifford Blackburn lettered at Arkansas in 1923 & 1924 and was an All-SWC End in '24. He went on to become an assistant coach at Hendrix from 1925-29 before moving to North Little Rock (AR) High School as athletic director from 1929-34. He left coaching in 1934 to become superintendent of schools at Paragould (AR).
Mr. Blackburn passed away in October 1978.

Brandan Blew -- Running Backs Coach, Tennessee State University

(as of football season 2004) Brandan Blew spent the 2004 season at Tennessee State University. He decided to enter the coaching profession after working at the Houston Nutt Summer Camps at the University of Arkansas. He spent three seasons season (2001-03) as a graduate assistant on the San José State University staff working with the defensive unit.
Blew spent 2000 as an administrative assistant for the University of Arkansas football staff. He helped the quarterbacks coach and special teams coordinator with off-the-field duties.
The graduate of the University of Arkansas received his bachelor's degree in 1998 majoring in Exercise Science. He earned his master's degree in 2000 in sports administration.

Byron Boudreaux -- Assistant Basketball Coach, Utah Snowbears (ABA)

(as of basketball season 2004-05) Byron Boudreaux joined the Utah Snowbears of the ABA after one season on Stan Heath's staff at the University of Arkansas as an assistant coach (March 17, 2002 to May 8, 2003).
Boudreaux spent seven seasons in Seattle after working the 1994 and 1995 seasons as an assistant at Oral Roberts. He was the associate head coach at Washington in 2001 and 2002.
Boudreaux, a native of Lafayette, La., who earned his bachelor's in physical education from the University of Tulsa in 1987, began his coaching career as an assistant at Queens College in Charlotte, N.C., from 1991-93. Boudreaux played four years at Tulsa, lettering from 1984-87, and is the school's all-time career assists leader with 457.
At Washington, Boudreaux served as the recruiting coordinator and helped supervise the academic progress of the players. In his seven seasons, the Huskies advanced to post-season play four times, playing in the NIT in 1996 and 1997, and the NCAA Tournament in 1998 and 1999.
The 1996 NIT appearance was the first post-season appearance for Washington in nine seasons. The 1998 team was the first Huskie squad to reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament since 1984.
At Arkansas, Boudreaux worked with the post players and monitored the academic progress of the Razorbacks.
As a player, Boudreaux led the Golden Hurricane with 4.9 assists and 1.3 steals while scoring 9.7 points a game in leading UT to the 1986 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament title and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. In 1987, he led the team with 5.9 assists and 1.3 steals while scoring 6.4 points in helping Tulsa win the MVC regular season title and earn another trip to the NCAA Tournament. He averaged 1.7 points and 1.4 assists as a freshman and 4.6 points and 2.7 assists as a sophomore.
In his four years at Tulsa, his teams were 27-4, 23-8, 23-9 and 22-8, respectively. Boudreaux played for former Arkansas head coach Nolan Richardson in 1984 and 1985, and for J.D. Barnett in 1986 and 1987.

Pat Bradley -- Assistant Coach, Arkansas RimRockers (NBADL)

(as of basketball season 2006-07) Named an assistant coach for the Arkansas RimRockers (NBADL) in the middle of the 2005-06 season. He was the Director of Player Personnel prior to being named an assistant coach.

Jesse Branch -- Head Coach, Henderson State University Reddies

*Resigned after the 2004 season

(as of football season 2004) A native of Pine Bluff, Branch graduated from Watson Chapel High School in 1959. He attended college at the University of Arkansas, where he won two letters as an offensive and defensive back. He earned All-Southwest Conference honors as a senior in 1963 and graduated in 1964. Branch played two seasons for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, leading the league in punt returns in 1964.
In 1966, he took his first coaching position, serving as running backs coach at Mississippi State. After one season in Starkville, he went to Kansas State and was the Wildcats' secondary coach from 1967-72. He then spent the 1972 season as the defensive coordinator at the University of Oregon before moving to offensive coordinator in 1973.
He returned to Kansas State for the 1974 season, serving as assistant head coach and defensive line coach. In 1975, Branch went back to Fayetteville and spent the next 11 seasons working with everything from wide receivers to running backs to defensive backs to quarterbacks. He worked under Frank Broyles, Lou Holtz and Ken Hatfield during his tenure as an assistant coach at Arkansas, and the Razorbacks made nine bowl appearances during that time.
Branch left the University of Arkansas in 1986 to become the head coach at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. In his nine seasons at SMS, Branch compiled an overall record of 55-44-1. He is the only head coach in school history to win two conference titles and have five consecutive winning seasons. He was the Gateway Conference and Kodak Regional coach of the year in 1989 and 1990, leading the Bears to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs in both of those seasons.
Branch left the coaching profession in 1995 to return to his alma mater. His duties as the Razorbacks' associate athletic director included serving as the compliance coordinator, working with the Razorback Foundation and serving as the administrative supervisor for academic support and student life.
Branch retired from that position on Sept. 15, 2000. He and his wife, Lee Ann, moved back to Springfield, but it did not take long for Branch to realize that he wanted to get back into collegiate athletics. More specifically, he wanted to coach again. He applied for the vacant job at Henderson State and was hired as the Reddies' 17th head coach on May 22, 2001. Yearly coaching records.

Tommy Brasher -- Defensive Line Coach, Philadelphia Eagles

*Retired after the 2005 season

(as of football season 2005) Tommy Brasher (pronounced BRAY-zure) is in his second tour of duty with the Eagles after being named the club's defensive line coach on 1/22/99. Brasher served in the same capacity with the Birds in 1985 as a member of then-head coach Marion Campbell's staff.
Under Brasher's guidance in 2000, the defensive line became one of the strengths as the unit accounted for 41 of the team's 50 sacks (6th in the NFL). DE Hugh Douglas earned a starting nod in the Pro Bowl with a career-high 15 sacks, while first round draft pick DT Corey Simon exploded onto the scene in the NFL with a rookie club record 9.5 sacks.
Prior to joining the Birds, Brasher enjoyed a successful seven-year stint as the Seattle Seahawks' defensive line coach.
During his tenure in Seattle, Brasher saw two of his lineman - defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy and defensive end Michael Sinclair - earn multiple Pro Bowl appearances. Kennedy was selected following the 1992-96 and 1998 seasons, while Sinclair was voted in after the 1996-98 seasons. Kennedy was also named defensive player of the year in 1992.
In addition to serving as the Eagles' defensive line coach in 1985, Brasher also held identical posts at New England (1982-84), Atlanta (1986-89), and Tampa Bay (1990). In his one season with the Eagles, two of his defensive ends notched 13 sacks apiece - Greg Brown and a rookie named Reggie White.
An all-conference selection himself as a linebacker at Arkansas from 1962-63, Brasher was a college teammate of Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones and former Dolphins and Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson.
After beginning his coaching career with a six-year stint on the high school level, Brasher's alma mater provided him with his first collegiate coaching assignment when he became the Razorbacks defensive assistant in 1970. He sandwiched stops at Virginia Tech (1971), NE Louisiana (1974, 1976), and Southern Methodist (1977-81) around a one-year stint as the defensive coordinator of the World Football League's Shreveport Steamer in 1975.
Born on 12/30/40, Brasher attended El Dorado High in his hometown and birthplace of El Dorado, AR.

Ron Brewer -- Head Basketball Coach, Arkansas ArchAngels (WBA)

(as of basketball season 2005) Ron was named the inaugural head coach for the Arkansas ArchAngels of the World Basketball Association on March 11, 2005 and led them to a 16-9 record. Previously Brewer was hired as head coach of the Fresno Heatwave (ABA) on September 2, 2004 and led his team to a 4-9 record before it folded. Ron attended and played basketball at the University of Arkansas where he was inducted into the Hall of Fame and was the first two time All-American before being drafted. Ron played for 9 years in the NBA with San Antonio, Portland, Cleveland and Golden State and was a 1st round draft pick by the Trailblazers in 1978. After his NBA career, he returned and received his BA in Technology Education. Ron has been dedicated to coaching boys and girls AAU basketball in Arkansas.

Earl Buckingham -- Assistant Offensive Line Coach / Tight Ends, San Jose St. University Spartans

(as of football season 2004) Coach Buckingham has been in the coaching profession for 21 years and is in his fourth season ('04) at San Jose State. For the first time in 12 seasons, he is back on the offensive side of the ball coaching the tight ends and assisting with the offensive line.
After the 2003 season, Buckingham was one of 20 ethnic minority football coaches selected to participate in the first NCAA Advanced Coaching Program, a component of the recently created NCAA Coaches Academy. The Coaches Academy is a NCAA initiative that addresses the critical shortage of ethnic minorities in head coaching positions in the sport of football.
Buckingham played his college football at the University of Arkansas. He was an All-Southwest Conference defensive lineman for the Razorbacks in 1982. Arkansas played in a bowl game every year he was on the team.
A marketing major, he was the only football player in his class to earn a bachelor's degree in four years. Buckingham went on to complete his master's degree in student personnel at Northwestern State University in 1991.

Daryl Byrd -- Assistant Baseball Coach, McNeese State University Cowboys

(as of baseball season 2004) Daryl Byrd spent one year (2003) as an assistant on the Hutchinson (KS.) Community College Blue Dragon Baseball staff before moving to McNeese State. He comes to HCC after serving as the volunteer coach at the University of Arkansas.  He will work with Blue Dragon hitters, outfielders and catchers. He will also be in charge of the base running and will coach first base. Coach Byrd also oversees the strength and conditioning program for the baseball program.
At the University of Arkansas, Coach Byrd was in charge of the outfield and base running. He also served as the first base coach for the Razorbacks. Arkansas reached post-season play for the first time since 1999 during Coach Byrd's first season.  They won the Mid-West Regional in Wichita and competed in the Super-Regionals at Clemson University. The Razorbacks fell one game short of Omaha, as they lost to Clemson on consecutive days after winning the first game of the series, 9-6.
Coach Byrd played college baseball at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated in May of 2000, with a BS in Physical Education.  Coach Byrd lettered four years for the Bulldogs, and was a three-year starter as outfielder and catcher.  During his four year career the Bulldogs won 2 Southern Conference Regular season championships and 3 Southern Conference titles. He competed in 3 regionals during his four year career, which is the first time that happened at The Citadel.

George "Bad News" Cafego -- Football / Baseball

After one year at the University of Georgia, Cafego transferred to Tennessee in 1937. The 1938 UT team finished 11-0 and Cafego was SEC Player of the Year. He became a three-year starter at tailback and an All-American in 1939. During his last two seasons, Tennessee won all 20 of its regular season games, beat Oklahoma 17-0 in the 1939 Orange Bowl, and lost 14-0 to Southern California in the 1940 Rose Bowl, when Cafego was injured.
The 5-foot-10, 183-pound Cafego combined breakaway speed with a high knee action that made him very difficult to tackle. He was also an excellent passer and punter and a strong defensive player. During his career at UT, Cafego rushed 259 times for 1,589 yards, a 6.1 average; completed 49 of 105 passes for 550 yards; returned 64 punts for 883 yards, a 13.8 average; ran back 12 kickoffs for 391 yards, a 32.6 average; punted 115 times for a 38.3 average; and had 5 interceptions.
Cafego then was the first pick of the 1940 NFL Draft, taken by the Chicago Cardinals. After playing for the NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940, Cafego spent two seasons in the Army. He was with the Dodgers and the Washington Redskins in 1943 and he finished his playing career with the Boston Yanks in 1944 and 1945. NFL Stats.
Cafego became an assistant coach at Furman University in 1948 and later assisted at Wyoming, Arkansas (1953-54), and Tennessee. He was also head baseball coach at Tennessee from 1955 through 1961 and an assistant with the football team from 1955-85.
He was elected to the Tennessee Hall of Fame in 1966 and the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 1973.
He was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969 and the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame in 1985.
George died in February of 1998 at UT Hospital at the age of 82. Yearly college baseball coaching records.

Heather Cato -- Assistant Soccer Coach, University of Arkansas - Little Rock

(as of soccer season 2002) Heather Cato is in her first season as assistant coach at UALR after a playing career at the University of Arkansas. Cato has also played in the national-level Olympic Development Program.
Cato played at the forward spot for the Razorbacks from 1996-2000. She was among the top three scorers on the team her entire career, and was the school's leading scorer her senior year.
Prior to playing in college, Cato competed on the Washington Soccer Club premier team and in the ODP program. From 1990-96, she was a member of the Washington state and regional ODP teams, and was captain of the state team for three years. In 1996, she was named to the national ODP under-20 team and was Region IV team captain that same year.
At Mountain View (Wash.) High School, Cato was an all-conference player for three years and named conference player of the year twice. 
Cato, 23, is a native of Vancouver, Wash. She is currently pursuing her master's in criminal justice at UALR.

Shannon Clancy -- Assistant Women's Soccer Coach, Virginia Military Institute

(as of soccer season 2003) Clancy is the first assistant coach in the history of the program.
Clancy played for Julie Davis for three seasons at the University of Arkansas where Davis served as the top assistant. In four seasons at Arkansas, Clancy started 62 of the 70 games that she played on the Lady Razorback defense.
Since her graduation in June of 2002, the Katy, Texas native has coached several youth teams in her home state.

Bert Clark -- Football

Former Washington State football coach Bert Clark passed away at the age of 74 on December 13, 2004 in Katy, Texas.
Clark served as the Cougars' head coach from 1964-67 and was best known as the leader of the "Cardiac Kids," WSU's 1965 team that defeated three Big Ten teams on the road en route to a 7-3 record.
As a player at the University of Oklahoma, Clark was twice an All-Big 8 linebacker under Bud Wilkinson from 1948-52, and helped the Sooners capture the 1950 national title.
The Wichita Falls, Texas, native played one season with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League before beginning his coaching career as an assistant at the University of Arkansas in 1956. The following season he went to Washington as an assistant coach.
After leaving the Palouse, he spent time as an assistant at New Mexico and with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL. Yearly records.

Charlie Coffey -- Football

Was an assistant coach at Arkansas from 1966 through 1970.
Coached Virginia Tech from 1971-73 and led them to a 12-20-1 record. Yearly records.

George Cole -- Football / Baseball / Athletic Director

In 1924 Cole attended the University of Arkansas, where he participated in both football and baseball. He became the first team quarterback in 1925 and held that position throughout the 1926 and 1927 seasons. In 1927 he was selected to the All-Southwest-Conference. That year he broke the single season scoring record that stood until 1965.
In three years Cole scored a total of 185 points by making 22 touchdowns, 32 extra points and seven field goals.
After college Cole coached Warren High School's basketball team, which reached the finals of the national high school tournament. After two years at Warren, Coach Cole accepted the head coach and athletic director's job at College of the Ozarks. In 1934 he returned to the University of Arkansas as head freshman football coach.
In 1942 he became the head football coach at the Arkansas, but at the season's end he joined the armed services to help in the World War II effort. In 1946 he returned to the U of A as an assistant coach and worked for four different football coaches. In 1957 he was hired as the assistant athletics director under Coach John Barnhill and in 1970 he was promoted to the director's post, a position he held until his retirement.
Coach Cole's numerous honors included his 1963 election into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, his 1974 induction into the Collegiate Athletic Directors Hall of Fame, the 1975 renaming of the Razorback Baseball Field to George Cole Field and his 2006 induction into the Bauxite (AR) High School Sports Hall of Fame. Yearly records.

Bob Cope -- Football

A football coach for 32 years. He served as the assistant coach at the University of the Pacific (1972-75) and head coach (1983-88) and was an assistant at Southern California (1991-93), Baylor (defensive coordinator in 1994, assistant head coach in 1995) and Kansas State (1989-90, 1996). During his career, he coached 23 nationally-ranked defenses and participated in eight bowl games.
Cope began his coaching career in 1964 at Vanderbilt, and had positions at Southern Methodist (1976), Arkansas (1977-80), Mississippi (1981) and Purdue (1982) before his first stop at K-State.
Bob Cope, defensive coordinator at Kansas State, died August 3, 1997 in Manhattan, Kansas. He was 58. Cope was diagnosed with cancer September of 1996. He was in his second stint with the Wildcats, also serving as defensive coordinator and associate head coach in 1989 and 1990. Yearly records.

Pete Cordelli -- Assistant Coach / Running Backs, Western Michigan University Broncos

(as of football season 2003) Pete Cordelli, Jr., an experienced assistant in the collegiate ranks and former head coach at Kent State University, was named running backs coach at WMU on March 20, 2002.
Cordelli is no stranger to the Mid-American Conference, having served three seasons (1991-93) as head coach at Kent State. During his time with the Golden Flashes, Cordelli mentored nine all-conference players and the 1991 Freshman of the Year in linebacker Morrey Norris.
A native of Blakely, Pa., (DOB: 9/14/53) Cordelli has worked as an assistant coach at the University of Notre Dame (1986-90), the University of Minnesota (1984-85), the University of Arkansas (1983), Memphis State University (1980-81) and TCU (1979).
While at Notre Dame, Cordelli oversaw quarterbacks and receivers, which included Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown (1987) and runner-up Raghib "Rocket" Ismail (1990). He was also a member of the Irish's 1988 national championship team and worked alongside Darnell during the 1990 season.
In between collegiate jobs, Cordelli worked in the NFL, assisting in the personnel department of the Cleveland Browns (1994) and as a personnel scout for the Dallas Cowboys (1982).
Most recently, Cordelli coached on the staff at Christian Brothers High School in Memphis. At the same time, he worked in the media, co-hosting a sports call-in show on WHBQ 560 AM and providing color for the University of Mississippi radio network.
Cordelli received a bachelor's degree in education from North Carolina State in 1977 after playing three seasons with the Wolfpack. Cordelli's college playing career began in Ithaca, N.Y., where he played a season at Cornell University before transferring to N.C. State. Yearly coaching records.

Jen Kennedy Croft -- Head Women's Soccer Coach, Utah State University

*Announced her resignation on November 14, 2002

On Jan. 12, 2001, Jen Kennedy Croft was named the second head soccer coach at Utah State since the inception of the program in 1996.
Croft was an assistant at Utah State for two seasons under Stacy Enos, and has 12 years of collegiate coaching experience. Prior to arriving at USU, she served as an assistant at Connecticut (1989), Maine (1990-91), Princeton (1991), Rhode Island (1992) and Arkansas (1992-93).
Croft was the head coach at Seattle University from 1994-96 before joining the Utah State staff in 1999. At Seattle, she guided the program to a 34-19-7 record in three years while leading the team to three NAIA Regional Tournament appearances. In three years at the helm, Croft's teams were 8-5-6 in her inaugural season, 9-11-1 in her second year and 17-3-0 in her final campaign.
In 2001, her first season as head coach at Utah State, she guided the Aggies to a 6-11-1 record, their second-best year in the program's six seasons. Additionally, USU handed then-undefeated Big West champion Cal State Fullerton its only conference loss on the season.
As a player at Connecticut from 1984-77, Croft earned four letters as a defender and was named the team's Most Valuable Player in 1987.

Years	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties
1994	Seattle U.	8	5	6
1995	Seattle U.	9	11	1
1996	Seattle U.	17	3	0
2001	Utah State	6	11	1
2002	Utah State	8	9	3
5 yrs	Totals	40	39	11

Brandi Daily -- Assistant Women's Basketball Coach, Stephen F. Austin State University

*Resigned on May 13, 2004

(as of basketball season 2003-04) Daily came to Nacogdoches by way of Fayetteville, Ark., where she was a three-year member of the Lady Razorbacks basketball team, under former Ladyjack head coach Gary Blair. While at Arkansas, Daily was a key member of a Lady Razorback team that advanced to two Women's National Invitational Tournament Final Four appearances. In 2000, Daily captained the Lady Razorbacks to the WNIT title. Prior to the two trips to the WNIT, Daily was a member of the 1998 NCAA Championships Final Four squad, that was eliminated by eventual National Champion Tennessee. Daily also proved a success in the classroom being named to the 2000 Academic All-Southeastern Conference team.
Daily was captain for the 1996-97 Tyler Junior College basketball team. Daily earned all-conference and all-region honors during her two years at TJC.
Daily graduated from TJC with an associates of arts degree in 1997. She received a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and exercise physiology from Arkansas in 2000.

Doug Dickey -- Football / Athletic Director

*Retired as AD at the University of Tennessee in June of 2003

In 1997, he was selected as first recipient of the John H. Toner Award, bestowed on a top athletics director by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. The presentation took place at the organization's annual gathering at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
Then in 2000, the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, holding its winter banquet in Nashville, named Dickey Tennessean of the Year. The most recent addition to the bulging Dickey resume came last April when he received the Robert R. Neyland trophy for his work as head coach at Tennessee and Florida. The award was especially meaningful to Dickey because of the coach's unquenchable love for the sport of football.
Dickey, who as University of Tennessee athletics director has shepherded one of college sports' most successful programs for 17 years, joined such previous Neyland recipients as Paul (Bear) Bryant and Eddie Robinson.
His 104-58-6 overall coaching mark embraced two Southeastern Conference championship seasons at Tennessee and 19 All-America stars who played under his tutelage with the Vols or Gators.
As a player, assistant coach, head coach and administrator, Dickey has been involved with 29 bowl games beginning with the 1952 Gator Bowl in which he played quarterback for Florida.
Over a span of 37 years, Dickey has been the principal force in University of Tennessee sports, first as a coach and since 1985 directing a Vol athletic department that has been a model of consistent performance.
Keenly aware of a continuing goal to keep Tennessee in the forefront of collegiate competition, Dickey responds to the desire of fans for a strong presence on the national scene. In the most recent sports season, 2000-2001, UT's achievements were of storybook proportions: NCAA champions in track and field, College World Series in baseball, NCAA finalists in tennis, NCAA third place in swimming and diving and the Cotton Bowl in football. In addition both the basketball and golf teams participated in NCAA tournaments.
As athletic director, the 69-year-old coach-turned-administrator has been heavily involved in policy-making on the national level. For example, in a six-year term with the football rules committee, he served as chairman from 1992 through 1994. Since 1992, Dickey has been a member of the board of NOCSAE, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment. On the statewide level, Dickey has employed his administrative skills to play a key role in the building of a Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in a wing of the Nashville arena. He was the SEC representative to the NCAA's Football Issue's Committee. In addition he is on the Strategic Planning Committee of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
Dickey's service at UT encompasses responsibilities as head coach for six seasons (1964-69) and as athletics director since 1985. As coach, he put Tennessee back on the national football map with a string of productive seasons that included league championships and bowl appearances. As athletics director, he has overseen a huge facilities construction and renovation program.
Other honors have come Dickey's way in recognition of his continuing contributions to college athletics. He has been inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, the Gator Bowl Hall of Fame and the Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame.
When Dickey succeeded Woodruff as athletics director in 1985, he put a top priority on bringing UT's facilities to a level that would enable Vol coaches and athletes to compete on an even plane with their Southeastern Conference rivals. The multi-million dollar building program was a must on his agenda.
A college football coach for 22 years before moving onto the business world in 1980, Dickey became only the fourth athletic director in UT history when he was chosen to the job of overseeing Tennessee's success-oriented sports program.
Douglas Adair Dickey brought to the athletics director's job the qualities the university was searching for in a replacement for Woodruff. He had long-standing ties with Tennessee, he had been involved with college athletics for more than two decades, he had participated successfully in business and he enjoyed a reputation for total integrity.
Before taking the Tennessee post, Dickey had been for four years general manager of the Florida Tile Ceramic Centers, with headquarters in Lakeland, Fla. He previously had served the firm as its Southeast regional sales manager.
Six years after he came to Tennessee, a youthful head coach taking on the established greats of his fiercely competitive profession, Dickey left Knoxville. He answered a call from his alma mater, the University of Florida, and moved to Gainesville as head coach after the 1969 season. His nine-year record at Florida was 58-43-2, which combined with his six-year mark at Tennessee of 46-15-4, left him with overall totals of 104-58-6. Dickey closed out his coaching career by spending the 1979 season as assistant head coach at the University of Colorado.
It was Woodruff, then only a year into his athletic director's job at Tennessee, who brought Dickey, age 31 at the time, from an assistant's post at Arkansas to the demanding assignment as steward of the Big Orange football program before the 1964 season.
Woodruff had kept close tabs on Dickey from the time of the latter's undergraduate days at Florida, where Woodruff was the Gators' head coach. He detected in the lanky quarterback of his 1953 team traits that would prove invaluable if Doug were to pursue a coaching career. "Dickey was one of the brainiest quarterbacks I ever saw," Woodruff told newsmen when the announcement was made in December of 1963 that Dickey would replace Jim McDonald at the Tennessee helm.
Except for the five years he spent in business, Dickey has been around college campuses almost his entire life. He was born in Vermillion, S. D., where his father, the late Dallas Dickey, was a speech professor at the University of South Dakota. His father later was on the faculty at Louisiana State University and at the University of Florida.
Young Dickey, after playing high school football at Gainesville, accepted a scholarship to the University of Florida from Woodruff. After graduation he coached for a year at a high school in St. Petersburg, Fla., and coached at Fort Carson, Colo., while in the service. Then came an opportunity to join the staff of Frank Broyles at the University of Arkansas (1957-63). Over the next six years, Doug acquired a wealth of knowledge under Broyles, coaching defense four years and then serving as head offensive coach his final two seasons. Yearly records.

Otis Douglas -- Football

Douglas enjoyed a long and colorful career as a college and professional coach, starting at Akron U. in 1939 as aide to Tommy Dowler and in 1941 and 1942 as head coach of the Zips.
After wartime service in the U.S. Navy (1942-45) Douglas served the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League as assistant coach, player and trainer from 1946 through 1948, Drexel Institute as coach in 1949, University of Arkansas as head coach 1950 through 1952, the NFL Baltimore Colts as assistant coach in 1953, Villanova University as coach in 1954 and Calgary of the Canadian Football League as coach from 1955 through 1960. Douglas' last active role in organized pro athletics was as physical fitness consultant for the Cincinnati Reds in the Spring of 1961 and the team, then managed by Fred Hutchinson, won the National League pennant. He remained with the Reds for two years.
Led Akron to a 5-10-3 record, Arkansas to a 9-21 record and Calgary to a 22-38-2 record.
Graduated from William and Mary College.
Elected to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1979. Yearly records.

Frank Falks -- Tight Ends Coach, St. Louis Rams

(as of football season 2005) Falks, who most recently coached four seasons with the Detroit Lions (1997-00), coaches the Rams tight ends.
Falks took over as the Lions running backs coach in 1997 after three years (1994-96) as the tight ends/H-backs coach for the San Diego Chargers.
Prior to joining the Chargers, Falks spent 25 years in the college coaching ranks. Falks began his career at his alma mater, Parsons College, in Fairfield, Iowa, as offensive coordinator for two seasons (1968-69). He moved to Kansas State as offensive line coach from 1970-72, before tutoring defensive ends at Arkansas from 1973-77. He then spent two years as the defensive coordinator at Wyoming (1978-79), one season as defensive coordinator at San Diego State (1980), and two years as running backs coach at Oklahoma State (1981-82). Falks spent four seasons at USC from 1983-86, the first two as running backs coach, and the final two as assistant head coach before joining Arizona State as running backs coach for four seasons (1987-91). From 1992-93, Falks was the running backs coach at Ohio State University.
Falks, a native of Tampa, Florida, played linebacker at Joplin Junior College, in Joplin (Mo.), where he earned all-America honors in 1964. He was elected into Joplin's Hall of Fame in 1973. Falks continued his playing career at Parsons College, where he earned all-America honors in 1966.

Danny Ford -- Football

After graduating from Gadsden High School in 1966, Danny Lee Ford was an All-SEC selection on the field and off the field under Paul "Bear" Bryant at Alabama, where he played in three bowl games. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial arts in 1970 and later received a master's degree in special education in Tuscaloosa in 1971.
After nine years as an assistant coach, Ford had an auspicious beginning to his head coaching career. He debuted with a 17-15 win over Ohio State in the 1978 Gator Bowl.
In 1981, Ford helped Clemson reach the summit of college football by winning the National Championship, the first by any Clemson team. His Tigers, who were unranked in the preseason, downed three top-10 teams during the course of the 12-0 season that concluded with a 22-15 victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. Ford, National Coach of the Year in '81, is still the youngest coach to win a national championship on the gridiron. He also led Clemson to a 30-2-2 record between 1981-1983, best in the nation.
Clemson won three straight ACC titles under his guidance between 1986 and 1988. In '89, Clemson registered a 10-2 season and top-12 national ranking for the fourth straight season. Ford closed his career with a 27-7 win over West Virginia in the Gator Bowl. In the decade of the 1980s, Clemson had the nation's fifth-highest winning percentage.
Ford was an assistant ('77-'78) at Clemson before becoming the head coach. He compiled a 96-29-4  (.670) record in 11 seasons at Clemson, including a 12-0-0 record in 1981. Ford was fired in 1989.   
Danny took over at the University of Arkansas in 1993.  He began to build the Arkansas program; winning an SEC western division championship.  He was fired in 1997 after going 26-30-1 in five seasons. Yearly records.

Lance Franks -- Assistant Baseball Coach - Pitchers, Chico Outlaws (Golden Baseball League, Independent Baseball)

(as of baseball season 2005) Lance was named pitching coach for Chico on December 28, 2004. Franks, who also lives in Chico, takes on his first full-time coaching assignment after serving as a player/pitching coach in 2004 for the Quebec Les Capitales of the independent Northeast League.
The 2004 season marked the end of Lance's eight-year pro career, five of which were spent in the St. Louis Cardinals farm system. Franks enjoyed his biggest success during the Heat's 2002 WBL championship season, posting an 11-4 record and 2.98 earned run average, ranking among the league leaders in nearly every significant statistical pitching category. Player bio.

Hayden Fry -- Football

An All-State quarterback for Odessa High School's 1946 state championship team. After playing football at Baylor University (1947-50), Fry spent four years in the Marine Corps, coached high school football for four years (Odesa, TX HS, 1956-59), and served as an assistant college coach for two seasons (Baylor in 1960, Arkansas in 1961) before becoming head coach at Southern Methodist University in 1962.
Fry took SMU to three bowl games, but those were his only three winning seasons and he had a 50-68-1 record before being fired. He then had a 40-23-1 mark at North Texas State University from 1973 through 1978 and moved on to the University of Iowa.
Iowa went to the Rose Bowl three times under Fry's guidance, in 1982, 1986, and 1991, losing all three, but his teams have a 5-4-1 record in other bowl appearances. He ranked 10th on the all-time win list for Division I coaches when he retired.
Fry retired after the 1998 season with a record of 143-89-6 at Iowa and 232-178-10 overall (37 years).
During his coaching career, Fry was named the Southwest Conference Coach of the Year four time (while at SMU), the Big Ten Coach of the Year three times (1981, '90, & '91) and the Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year once (while at North Texas).  He was also named the National Coach of the Year by The Sporting News and ABC-TV. He was inducted into Texas H.S. Football Hall of Fame in 1997 and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003. Fry was selected as the 2005 recipient of the American Football Coaches Association's Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. More Info. Yearly records.

Joe Gibbs -- Head Coach / Team President, Washington Redskins

*Resigned on January 8, 2008

Throughout his Hall of Fame career head coach Joe Gibbs has faced adversity on numerous occasions and each time he has responded the only way he knows how: to work even harder.
On January 7, 2004, when team owner Daniel M. Snyder named Gibbs the Head Coach and Team President of the franchise, he welcomed back one of the most respected and successful figures in Washington Redskins and Washington sports history.
First coaching the team from 1981 to 1992, Gibbs turned the Redskins into an NFL dynasty. He led the Redskins to four Super Bowls--winning three titles--and accumulated a 124-60 record during regular-season play and an amazing 16-5 post-season record (.762 win percentage).
Gibbs took the helm of the Washington franchise as a rookie head coach in 1981 and it didn't take long to turn the Redskins into a winning machine.
After just his second season, he led his Redskins team to Super Bowl XVII, beating the Miami Dolphins 27-17. He returned to the Championship game in 1983 and was named NFL Coach of the Year. The Redskins went on to win Super Bowls XXII and XXVI under his watch, building a tradition of excellence that has remained unmatched to this day.
Four coaches have won three Super Bowls in NFL history. Only one, Joe Gibbs, has done it with three different quarterbacks, spread out over a nine-year period.
In all, Gibbs' Redskins recorded 11 winning seasons during his 12 years, taking the team to the playoffs eight times. In the history of the NFL, only Vince Lombardi and Bill Belichick have had better playoff winning percentages.
Gibbs began his coaching career at San Diego State, his alma mater, under Don Coryell. He joined the Aztecs staff in 1964 as a graduate assistant and coached the offensive line during a period when the team won 27 of 31 games, including an 11-0 mark in 1966.
In 1967, Gibbs joined Bill Peterson's staff at Florida State as offensive line coach and was part of a 15-4-1 record over two seasons. In 1969, John McKay brought Gibbs to USC and the Trojans went 15-4-1 over the next two years. The winning ways continued when Gibbs joined Frank Broyles' staff at Arkansas and the Razorbacks recorded a 14-8-1 mark over the 1971-72 seasons.
Gibbs and Coryell were reunited in 1973 when the latter named Gibbs offensive backfield coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. From 1973-77, the Cardinals were 42-27-1, earning two NFC East titles.
In 1978, Gibbs became Tampa Bay's offensive coordinator under McKay. After one season with the Buccaneers, Coryell called again in 1979 and tabbed him as offensive coordinator at San Diego.
His brilliant coaching career then caught the attention of Jack Kent Cooke, who named Gibbs the Washington Redskins' 17th head coach on January 13, 1981.
Gibbs took his rightful place among other NFL legends in 1996, when he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
His leadership skills have not been relegated to just the football playing field. In 1993, he left the Redskins and the NFL at the pinnacle of his career, looking to spend more time with his family and his NASCAR race team, established in 1991.

Danny Giles -- Graduate Assistant Baseball Coach, Union University

(as of baseball season 2002) Danny Giles is back for his second season (2002) as graduate assistant for the Bulldogs. Giles spent the 1999 and 2000 seasons at the starting second basemen for the Bulldogs. During his two seasons with Union, Giles hit .292 with 30 doubles, 11 homeruns, and 106 RBI's. He was selected second team All-Conference in 2000. Giles played his high school baseball at North Side High School as well as basketball and track. He was named Player of the Year at North Side during his junior and senior seasons. Giles was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 30th round on the 1996 Amateur Baseball draft. Danny attended the University of Arkansas where in 1997, he started 31 games as their shortstop. After his sophomore season, he transferred to Union to finish out his college career.

Harvey Hampton -- Football

Harvey graduated from Forrest City High School in 1972 after starting for the Mustangs for three years.
He was named to the All-State football team in 1971 and then went on to attend the University of Arkansas, playing for Coach Frank Broyles.
He started for the Hogs defensively all four years and earned the Crip Hall Homecoming Award as a senior in 1976.
Following college, Hampton coached at the college level at both Arkansas (1983) and at the University of Memphis.
Elected to the Forrest City Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.

Tom Hardin -- Track

Tom Hardin attended the University of Arkansas, where he lettered in track and cross-country.
In 1950 his team won the first Southwest Conference Championship. That year Hardin set a mile record, which was also the fastest mile run by any athlete in Arkansas. In June of 1951 he graduated from Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree.
In 1951 Hardin began his coaching career at Benton Junior High School, where he enjoyed successful seasons in football, basketball and track. He moved to coaching senior football and track in 1959 at Benton Senior High while also serving as athletic director. He had successful seasons from 1959 to 1964. His next stop was Fayetteville High School, where he coached football and track and performed athletic director duties.
In 1966 his football team was ranked fourth in the state, and in 1965 the track team won numerous championships, including state, setting 14 new state records. In 1967 Hardin was named the head track and cross-country coach at the University of Arkansas.
In 1970 he served as athletic director at Brevard County School District and in 1972 was named the assistant superintendent at Pulaski County Special School District. In July of 1978 he was named superintendent of that district.

Jamel Harris -- Graduate Assistant Football Coach - Defense, Tulsa Golden Hurricane

(as of football season 2002) Jamel Harris is in his first season (2002) as a graduate assistant coach for the Tulsa football program. He will assist with coaching the Hurricane defense.
Harris was a four-year letterwinner at the University of Arkansas (1996-99). A three-year starting linebacker, Harris was credited with 203 career tackles and had 77 stops his senior season. He played two years on the Razorback defense that was coached by coordinator Keith Burns.
As a prep running back, Harris was the Alabama Class 1A-3A Player of the Year his senior season. He was a four-year all-conference performer at Wicksburg High School while gaining 5,007 yards and 48 touchdowns during his career.
A native of Dothan, Alabama, Harris earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Arkansas in 2000.

Johnnie Harris -- Assistant Coach (Ladyback basketball)

(as of basketball season 2006-07) Former North Carolina State assistant Johnnie Harris returns to her home state to become an assistant women's basketball coach for the University of Arkansas starting in 2004-05.
Gardner sees as one of Harris' key strengths is her ability to relate to recruits. She also brings a new set of contacts across the nation from her time spent with N.C. State and before that with perennial junior college post-season power University of Arkansas-Fort Smith.
Harris brought the key players to UA-Fort Smith during her time with the junior college powerhouse that led to the school's most recent NJCAA Final Four appearance in 2004. Her first recruiting class at N.C. State was one of the best in the nation, a trend that Gardner thinks would have continued except for one phone call.
Harris joined the Arkansas staff in the early summer, and hit the recruiting trail immediately.
The Pine Bluff, Ark., native was with the Wolfpack last season as NC State returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time in two seasons. Posting a 17-15 overall record, Harris helped NC State sign one of the nation's top 20 recruiting classes, including the junior college player of the year. Harris spent two seasons as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for perennial junior college power-house Arkansas-Fort Smith, working with legendary coach Louis Whorton.
The Lady Lions went 34-8 during her two years at UAFS, including an impressive 26-2 record in 2002-03 and shared the Bi-State Conference title. Her past season at NC State gave her the chance to work with another coaching veteran, Kay Yow.
Harris began her coaching career as a graduate assistant with the University of Arkansas-Little Rock in 1998, earning a promotion to full-time assistant coach in 2000. Beginning her playing career with two seasons at UA-Pine Bluff, she transferred to Arkansas Baptist for her final two seasons.

Ken Hatfield -- Head Coach, Rice University Owls

(as of football season 2005) The national coach of the year in 1983 at Air Force, the native of Helena, Ark., has been successful at every coaching stop. He led the Air Force to successive bowl trips in 1982-83, then took Arkansas to dominance in the SWC with six bowl trips in his six seasons in Fayetteville. The Houston Post named Hatfield the SWCs coach of the decade in the 1980s. The Razorbacks were league champions in 1988 and 89 before he moved on to Clemson. By winning another title in his first season back in the league, Hatfield joined a short list of SWC coaches who won three straight titles.
Clemson remained one of the best programs in college football under Hatfield. His first team in 1990 compiled a 10-2 record, including a 30-0 win over Illinois in the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa, Fla. The 91 squad won the ACC championship, and the 93 team went 8-3 to win a berth in the Peach Bowl vs. Kentucky. All four of his Clemson teams spent time ranked among the nation's top 20 teams.
Hatfield's college playing career was a fitting prelude to his coaching prosperity. An academic all-America selection for Arkansas 1964 national champions, he led the nation in punt returns in both 1963 and 64 after a second-place finish as a sophomore in 1962. He remains the only college player to finish in the top two in punt returns for three straight seasons and his 16.2 yard average on 70 career returns still ranks 12th in NCAA history. He immediately went into coaching after graduation, first at the high school level and then as an assistant coach at Army, Tennessee, Florida and Air Force. In 13 seasons as an assistant, he helped teams to seven bowl games and was part of a SEC championship at Tennessee in 1969.
In 1978, he was named offensive coordinator at Air Force on Bill Parcells coaching staff. A year later, Parcells was wooed to the professional game and Hatfield had his first head coaching position.
The Falcons had not had a winning season since 1973, but by his fourth season Hatfield had led the Academy to an 8-5 record and a Hall of Fame Bowl win over Vanderbilt. In 1983, the Falcons went 10-2, including wins over Notre Dame, Navy and Mississippi in the Independence Bowl. Hatfield won the Bobby Dodd Award as the national coach of the year and was selected by the American Football Coaches Association as its national honoree.
Returning to Arkansas in 1984, the Razorbacks became the SWCs dominant team during his tenure. His Arkansas squads compiled a 55-17-1 record and appeared in the Liberty, Holiday, Orange and Cotton Bowls. The 1988-89 teams won SWC championships and he was the leagues coach of the year in 88.
An accounting major who earned his degree in 1965, Hatfield was the recipient of the Swartz Award, presented annually to Arkansas top student-athlete. The 1964 all-SWC pick was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and was a member of the Razorbacks' all-time team selected to celebrate the university's grid centennial in 1994. Yearly coaching records.

He was inducted in the UA Letterman's Hall of Honor in 1995.

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Lou Holtz -- Head Coach, University of South Carolina Gamecocks

*Announced his retirement on November 22, 2004

(as of football season 2004) Lou Holtz has established himself as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. He's taken three different programs to top 20 finishes, won a national championship and national coach of the year honors, and guided teams to 21 postseason bowl games, is the man entrusted with leading the University of South Carolina football program. After going 0-11 at South Carolina in 1999, Lou engineered one of the biggest turnarounds in College football history, leading the gamecocks to an 8-4 record, including an impressive victory over Ohio St. in the Outback Bowl. 2001 saw Lou lead USC to a 9-3 record and another victory over Ohio St. in the Outback Bowl.
Lou Holtz has been a builder of programs throughout his illustrious 27 years as a collegiate head football coach. First at William &Mary ... then at North Carolina State ... then at Arkansas ... then at Minnesota ... then at Notre Dame ... at all five universities, Holtz led those programs to a postseason bowl game by his second season at the helm and consistently produced winning teams that also recorded superlative graduation rates. He is one of only 15 coaches in the history of the sport to reach the coveted 200-victory plateau.
Holtz served as a college football analyst for CBS Sports. Most recently, he was head coach at Notre Dame for 11 seasons from 1986-96, where he rekindled the football fortunes at one of the country's most prestigious programs, claiming a national championship and leading the Fighting Irish to nine consecutive New Year's Day bowl games.
His teams reeled off 23 consecutive victories through the 1988 and '89 seasons to establish the longest winning streak in Notre Dame history. Holtz came to Notre Dame after rebuilding programs at Minnesota (1984-85), Arkansas (1977-83), North Carolina State (1972-75) and William & Mary (1969-71). He spent the 1976 season as head coach of the NFL's New York Jets.
Holtz's sterling seven-season mark of 60-21-2 (.735) at Arkansas included six straight bowl appearances after he arrived, the first time the Razorbacks had ever played in bowl games in more than four straight seasons. His first six Arkansas teams combined to average exactly nine victories per year. Four of his Razorback teams finished in the final top 10 poll, while five finished in the top 20.
Holtz quickly made a name for himself at Arkansas by taking his first Razorback team in 1977 to an 11-1 record, highlighted by a stunning 31-6 upset of second-ranked and once-beaten Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. That victory left Arkansas third in both of the final polls and came despite the fact Holtz had suspended, before the squad traveled to Miami, three players who had combined to score 78 percent of Arkansas' touchdowns in 1977. That season, Holtz was named National Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America and the Walter Camp Foundation. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Holtz's 1979 Arkansas team was co-champions of the Southwest Conference and his 1980 and 1982 squad claimed bowl victories. During his seven seasons at Arkansas, his teams played before sellout crowds at every home game. U of A Coaching Records. Yearly coaching records.

Harold Horton -- Football

Horton lettered in football at Arkansas in 1960 and 1961. He came to coach at UA in 1968 after coaching at Forrest City HS. Horton led the UCA football team to back-to-back NAIA championships (1984-85) and to seven straight AIC championships, earning the league's Coach of the Year honors five times. He was the NAIA Coach of the Year in 1983. Horton compiled a 74-12-5 record at UCA, the highest winning percentage in school history and had the most victories in school history. During his tenure, Horton coached 21 All-Americans and led the Bears to 38 straight regular-season wins. Horton was elected to Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. Yearly records.

Corky Houghton -- Assistant Head Coach / Offensive Line Coach, Louisiana College Wildcats

(as of football season 2005) Coach Houghton is originally from Overland Park, Kansas where he attended Shawnee Mission South High School. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Austin College in Sherman, TX where he was an Academic All-American and a 2 year letterman on the football team. He has coached at Austin College, Trinity Valley Community College, University of Arkansas, University of Texas at El Paso, Baytown Sterling High School, Austin High School, and Louisiana College.

Gary Howard -- Head Football Coach, University of Central Oklahoma

*Let go after the 2002 season

(as of football season 2002) At the helm of one of NCAA Division II's elite programs is veteran head coach Gary Howard, who is in his third decade as a member of the Central Oklahoma football staff.
UCO's all-time winningest football coach with a 162-105-6 career record that ranks among the best in Division II, Howard is in his 26th year as the Broncho skipper. UCO has established itself as a perennial national contender in the past nine years, having compiled an amazing 71-26-1 record in that span while qualifying for the playoffs three of the past five years.
Howard, who handles the on-field coaching of the offensive line, has led the Bronchos to three Lone Star Conference North Division titles and two overall league crowns in the past four years.
UCO has had 16 winning seasons under Howard, including 13 years with seven or more wins. The veteran coach has directed the Bronchos to seven of the school's nine playoff appearances, topped by an NAIA national championship effort in 1982.
Gary reached the 100-win plateau in 1994 when the Bronchos beat intrastate rival Langston 38-10, surpassed legendary C.W. Wantland as the school's all-time win leader in 1995 when UCO beat LU 30-26 and reached the 150-win mark last season.
Gary began his coaching career in 1964 as an offensive line coach at Arkansas, then spent two years as an assistant at Del City High School. He served as defensive coordinator for Northeastern Oklahoma A&M's national championship team in 1967 before coming to Edmond in 1968 as UCO's defensive coordinator.
He served in that capacity for nine years before taking over the head coaching job on March 17, 1977.
Howard was a high school standout at Tulsa Central and played collegiately at Arkansas, helping the Razorbacks to one Southwestern Conference championship.
Gary, a member of the American Football Coaches Association, received his bachelor's from Arkansas and later earned a master's from UCO. Yearly records.

Jim Lee Howell -- Football

Jim Howell lettered at Arkansas from 1933-35. In 1954 Howell became head coach of the NFL's New York Giants. With some help from a couple of future Hall of Fame assistant coach's and shrewd trading of draft picks for veterans, he rebuilt the squad to win the World Championship in 1956. The Giants first Championship since 1938. Coach Howell was the Ends Coach for the Giants from 1949-53. He was an assistant coach at Arkansas in 1936 and served as Head Coach at Wagner College from 1947-53. He led Wagner to a 24-30-3 record. He was instrumental in rebuilding a Wagner football program after the United States fought in World War II. Yearly college records.

C. W. 'Hootie' Ingram -- Football

Cecil 'Hootie' Ingram earned All-SEC honors as a sophomore after leading the nation in interceptions with 10. He holds the record for the longest punt return in Orange Bowl history-an 80-yarder for a touchdown that helped Alabama crush Syracuse 61-6. Ingram was an assistant coach at Arkansas, 1967-69, then head coach at Clemson, 1970-72, before moving to the Southeastern Conference as an assistant commissioner in 1973.  He was Florida State's director of athletics from 1989 until his retirement  in 1996. Yearly records.

Emily Janss -- Assistant Women's Soccer Coach, University of Maryland Terrapins

(as of soccer season 2004) Janss, a professional soccer player most recently with the WUSA's New York Power, came to the Terps after serving as an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas from 2002 to 2004. She was the recruiting coordinator for the Lady Razorbacks in addition to her coaching responsibilities. Janss has also worked as a youth club soccer coach in Arkansas.
A star from 1996-99 at Maryland, Janss was selected as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference's 50th Anniversary Team in 2002, one of five Terps on the prestigious squad. Janss, an All-ACC first team selection in 1999 and a second-team honoree in 1997 and 1998, led the Terps to NCAA bids between '96 and '99 while tallying 42 points on 17 goals and eight assists during her career. She is second all-time at Maryland in games played with 95 and earned All-America honors from Soccer Buzz in 1997. She was also a two-time ACC All-Tournament selection and four-time Soccer America Team of the Week honoree.

Pat Jones -- Outside Linebackers Coach, Oakland Raiders

(as of football season 2005) Pat Jones, who was Oklahoma State's head coach for 11 seasons, enters his second season on the Raiders coaching staff as outside linebackers coach. He was hired by Oakland in February of 2004 after eight seasons as the Miami Dolphins' tight ends coach. Spent 1995 with the Chicago Bears as a special assistant with the offensive line. Prior to joining the Bears, he spent 11 seasons as head coach at Oklahoma State University (1984-94) and 22 years at the collegiate level.
Jones led Oklahoma State to a 62-60-3 record during his tenure in Stillwater and was at the helm during the school's only 10-win seasons (1984, 1987 and 1988) in its football history. He led the Cowboys to four bowl games (1984 and 1985 Gator Bowl, 1987 Sun Bowl and 1988 Holiday Bowl) with three victories during his 11 seasons. Jones finished as the school's all-time winningest coach and 11th-most successful coach all-time in Big Eight history. He was twice named Big Eight Coach of the Year (1984 and 1992) and was National Coach of the Year by Football Yearbook in 1984.
Jones coached nine All-Americans at OSU, including current Dolphin running back Thurman Thomas, Hart Lee Dykes, Leslie O'Neal, and Barry Sanders. Dykes ended his career as the all-time leading receiver in Big Eight history, O'Neal was a Lombardi Award finalist in 1985, and Sanders won the Heisman Trophy in 1988.
Jones became Oklahoma State's head football coach when Jimmy Johnson left to become head coach at the University of Miami in 1984 and he was promoted from assistant head coach/defensive coordinator. Jones' inaugural season at OSU saw the Cowboys achieve its highest national ranking (second in the UPI poll and third in the AP ratings) prior to a regular-season finale against Oklahoma for the Big Eight title. The Cowboys finished the season with ten wins and a final ranking of fifth in UPI and sixth in AP. Jones' ten wins was just the third time in conference history that a rookie head coach had achieved that milestone, joining Oklahoma's Barry Switzer and Colorado's Chuck Fairbanks. In addition, his Cowboys teams finished three other seasons ranked in the Top 20 with finishes of 17th in 1985, 11th in 1987 and 11th in 1988. During his tenure at OSU, Jones also coached in the 1986 Japan Bowl, the 1988 Hula Bowl, and the 1992 Blue-Gray Game.
Jones began his coaching career in the Little Rock (Ark.) public schools in 1969 before moving on to the collegiate level as assistant defensive line coach at Arkansas under then-defensive coordinator Johnson (1974-75). He also made stops as defensive ends coach at Southern Methodist (1976-77), defensive ends coach at Pittsburgh with Johnson in 1978, and defensive ends coach/defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State (1979-83), before taking the head coaching position at OSU in 1984.
A native of Little Rock, Ark., Jones played collegiately at Arkansas Tech in 1965 before transferring to Arkansas for 1966-67 as a walk-on linebacker and nose guard. Yearly coaching records.

Dr. Jim Jordan -- Athletic Director, Delta State University

*Retired on July 1, 2003

(as of school year 2002-03) Since 1987, Delta State University Director of Athletics Dr. Jim Jordan's mission has been to strive to make Delta State a prominent force in Division II and the Gulf South Conference ranks. He has created a quality atmosphere for student-athletes in all walks of life, on the playing field and in the classroom.
Since being named Athletic Director in 1987, DSU has fielded a total of four National Championships and 27 Western Division and overall GSC Championships.
One of the many highlights came in the 2000 football season as the Statesmen were crowned the Division II National Champions before a national television audience on ESPN.
Over the years the women's basketball team has established a deep, rich tradition of success. The Lady Statesmen brought home National Championships in 1989, 1990, and 1992, bringing the school's overall total to seven. They have also won 12 GSC championships and 10 NCAA South Regional titles. The men's squad won GSC titles in 1993, 1997, and 1998.
Jordan has served on the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Selection Committee and the South Region Football Committee.
The Statesmen have competed in three College Baseball World Series and eight regionals since 1987. Dave "Boo" Ferris Field is noted as one of the finest in the nation, recently completing construction on chairback seating. In the spring of 2000, the new Bryce Griffis Baseball Practice Center was opened. The facility is located adjacent to Ferris Field and is equipped with state-of-the-art lighting and a NexTurf artificial surface. Two batting cages extend from the roof as well as portable pitching mounds.
Since Jordan's arrival, Men's and Women's Swimming has been competing on the national level and has won nine New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference Championships. The home of the DSU swim teams, the DSU Aquatics Center, was built in May 1999 giving the capability of hosting conference, regional and national events.
The DSU softball program is scheduled to undergo changes this season, including the addition of lights, a concessions stand, dressing rooms, grandstand seating, and a press box.
With a career that includes nearly 15 years of experience, Jordan is equally adept in dealing with the community on financial and everyday matters. While an associate professor in Health, Physical Education and Recreation, he remains in contact with the NCAA and the Gulf South Conference to insure the program is heading in the right direction.
Jordan rejoined the Delta State staff in 1987 after serving as developmental officer at the University of Arkansas for nearly two years. His initial stop at DSU was as the Assistant Director of the Foundation in 1981. He served the next four years as defensive coordinator under then head coach Jim "Red" Parker. Before joining the DSU staff, Jordan had many seasons of head coaching experience, including stints at Georgetown College, Maryville College, and Bowling Green High School. He was also head track coach at Austin Peay, assistant football coach at Davidson College, and assistant football coach at Carson Newman.
A 1964 graduate of the University of South Carolina, Jordan is a veteran of the United States Army.

Karyn Karlin -- Assistant Women's Basketball Coach, Liberty University

*Left after 02-03 season

(as of basketball season 2002-03) Karyn was named assistant coach at Liberty in June of 2002. The native of Fruitland, N.M. started her basketball success when she help lead Kirkland Central High School to four-consecutive 3-A New Mexico state championships. In addition, she was named New Mexico's high school Player of the Year her final three seasons before graduating in 1996.
Karlin earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Education from Arkansas in 2000. While with the Lady Razorbacks, Karlin was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year during the 1996-97 season and was named to the all-conference squad in her sophomore ('97-'98) and junior ('98-'99) seasons for head coach Gary Blair.
During the 1997-98 campaign she help lead Arkansas to the Final Four as the ninth-seeded Lady Razorbacks came out of the West Region to become the highest seeded women's basketball team to qualify for the Final Four. The following season Karlin helped Arkansas to a postseason WNIT title.
After graduating from Arkansas, Karlin played in Europe in Noika, Finland and Calais, France from December 2000 to May 2001. In each of the last two autumns, she has participated with Athletes in Action. This past winter she played in the NWBL with the Birmingham Power and since then was apart of the WNBA's Miami Sols training camp.

Gene Keady -- Assistant Basketball Coach, Toronto Raptors

*Contract was not renewed

(as of basketball season 2005-6) Keady retired from Purdue after the 2004-05 season, but took a job as an assistant coach for the NBA's Toronto Raptors in December of 2005.
Keady's six national coach of the year awards came in 1984, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2000. His most recent honors came in 2000 when he was selected national coach of the year by College Sports Magazine, Basketball Weekly, Chevrolet/CBS-TV Sports, Associated Press, United Press International and Sports Illustrated. He also received the Henry Iba Award (selected by the United States Basketball Writers Association).
Keady has led Purdue to six Big Ten Championships (1984, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995 and 1996) in 22 years, including three straight outright titles from 1994 to 1996. (Ohio State from 1960 to 1962 is the only other Big Ten school to accomplish that feat.)
Purdue has finished in the upper division of the Big Ten 17 times during Keady's tenure. The Boilermakers finished second in the league in 1983, 1990 and 1997.
He has been named Big Ten Coach of the Year a record seven times (1984, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000), tying former Indiana coach Bob Knight for the most all-time selections. Keady is also the only coach to win the award three straight years.
Under Keady, Purdue has made 20 postseason tournament appearances in 22 years (16 times in the NCAA Tournament). During the Keady Era, Purdue has averaged 21.3 wins per season.
Keady came to Purdue after a two-year stint as head coach at Western Kentucky. He led the Hilltoppers to a 38-19 record from 1979-80. They were co-champions of the Ohio Valley Conference his second season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Prior to taking the reigns at Western Kentucky, Keady was an assistant coach at Arkansas from 1975 to 1978. He helped Eddie Sutton mold the Razorback program into one of the nation's best. In doing so, Keady earned his reputation as a tireless, persevereant recruiter by proving instrumental in Arkansas' recruiting its famous "Triplets" of Ron Brewer, Marvin Delph and Sidney Moncrief. Arkansas went 94-24 in Keady's four seasons as an assistant and finished third in the NCAA Tournament his final campaign. Yearly coaching records.

Billy Kinard -- Football

Was an assistant coach at Arkansas in 1970.
In 1970, Billy Kinard became the first Ole Miss alumnus to head up the football program. The Rebels went 16-9 under Kinard until he was replaced in 1973. The Rebels were 10-2 in 1971 under Kinard.
Assistant with the Cleveland Browns 1976-77. Yearly records.

Bryan King -- Student Assistant - Baseball, University of Oklahoma Sooners

(as of baseball season 2002) Bryan King is entering his first season as an assistant coach for Oklahoma. A letter winner for Oklahoma in 2001, King was the team's starting left fielder last year before an injury ended his season. Prior to that, King was batting .333 with two home runs and 16 runs batted in.
King's junior season at the University of Arkansas was also stellar as he batted .274 with three round trippers and 23 runs batted in while making 41 starts.
Prior to Arkansas, King played at Connors (Okla.) State College where he earned all-region honors.
King is an honor student majoring in Sociology and also competed in Jayhawk League for the Liberal (Kan.) Beejays in the summer of 2000. The Beejays won the NBC World Series and he started and played in every game batting .333 in the wood bat league.

John Konstantinos -- Football / Athletic Director

(as of school year 2001-02) John Konstantinos was named Cleveland State's third Director of Athletics on July 1, 1990. In the ensuing decade, Konstantinos put the Vikings on a fast-forward track which propelled the department through the '90s and into the new millennium.
Under his direction, CSU athletics have enjoyed success both on and off the fields of play in the past 11 years. In addition, during his tenure, Cleveland State has hosted a pair of national championships -- the 1996 NCAA Division I Women?s Volleyball Championship and the 1998 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships -- as well as the first and second rounds of the 2000 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
Prior to coming to the shores of Lake Erie, Konstantinos worked for 10 years as an Associate Director of Athletics at neighboring Kent State University. From 1985 until his appointment at CSU, he served as KSU's Associate Director of Athletic Development and Sports Services, earning a reputation as a highly successful fundraiser and resourceful administrator. In addition to directing the Kent athletic fundraising program, he was responsible for administering the programs for 15 men's and women's sports.
A native Ohioan, the 65-year-old Konstantinos attended Yorkville High School, where he played varsity football, basketball and baseball. He went on to Morris Harvey College in West Virginia where he played football for three years before completing his eligibility at Kent State as a senior.
A five-year professional football career with the Cleveland, later Canton, Bulldogs of the United Football League and Philadelphia of the Continental Football League followed. During that time, he also launched a football coaching career, first at the high school, then on the college level.
That career carried him through assistant coaching stints at Temple (1968-69), William & Mary (1969-72), North Carolina State (1972-74) and Arkansas (1978-80). In addition, he served three seasons (1975-77) as t