Greg Davis (football coach)
Greg Davis (born April 25, 1951 in Groves , Jefferson County , Texas ) is a retired American football coach .
He was the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach of the University of Iowa football team , the Iowa Hawkeyes, until he announced his resignation on January 6, 2017. In the 2005 season he was offensive coordinator of the Texas Longhorns, the football team at the University of Texas at Austin , and received the Broyles Award for his achievements as "best national assistant coach" (engl. Nation's top assistant coach) bestowed.
Career
Davis attended Port Neches-Groves High School and then played from 1970 to 1972 as quarterback college football with the McNeese State Cowboys in Lake Charles . During the Grantland Rice Bowl in 1971, the team lost to Tennessee State University by 26-23. Davis graduated from the university in 1973.
Davis began his coaching career as a quarterback and receiver coach at Barbe High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana . After two seasons he was - for another two seasons - quarterback coach at Port Neches-Groves High School, his former school.
He began his career as a quarterback coach in college football under Tom Wilson (1944-2016) and Jackie Sherrill (* 1943) at Texas A&M University in College Station . In 1978 he worked as an assistant coach at Texas A&M University, and in 1979 he was finally appointed full-time coach. At the time, he was working alongside RC Slocum, who was serving as defensive coordinator and whom he had known since his time with the McNeese State Cowboys.
Davis later became an assistant to Mack Brown (* 1951) at Tulane University and succeeded him in 1988 as Tulane's head coach. After further positions at the University of Georgia and the University of Arkansas , Davis later moved to Brown's coaching staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , before he followed him to Texas in 1998.
In the 2008 playing season, Davis's salary was raised to $ 425,000, making him the nation's second highest paid offensive coordinator after Jimbo Fisher (born 1965), the head coach of Florida State University .
On December 6, 2010, after the worst season of the Mack Brown era at the University of Texas, Greg Davis resigned as offensive coordinator for the Texas Longhorns. The 2010 season was the first season after 13 years in which the Longhorns could not play a bowl game; after nine successful seasons, the Longhorns did not achieve ten wins in 2010.
After a year hiatus, he was hired by the University of Iowa in 2012 and replaced Ken O'Keefe as offensive coordinator for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Everett Withers was assistant coach under Greg Davis. He later became NCAA Head Coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2011), the James Madison Dukes (2014-2015) and the Texas State Bobcats (2016-2018).
literature
- Oliver Lane: The 1982 Maroon Book: Texas Aggie Football . Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas 1982, ISBN 0-87833-328-2 (English).
Web links
- Iowa profile. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lane (1982), pp. 22-23.
- ^ Broyles Award . Archived from the original on December 6, 2006. Retrieved January 17, 2007.
- ↑ Bohls, Kirk: It's time to give credit to Greg Davis - Longhorns have best offensive coordinator in Big 12 . Austin American-Statesman. November 3, 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
- ^ Suzanne Halliburton: Aggie friend and foe , Austin American-Statesman. November 27, 1998. Retrieved December 2, 2007.
- ^ Austin American-Statesman: Davis to make $ 425,000, matching pay of Muschamp . Archived from the original on January 27, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davis, Greg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groves , Jefferson County , Texas |