- Greg Davis (American football)
College coach infobox
Name = Greg Davis
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Title =Offensive coordinator
College = Texas
Sport = Football
Conference = Big 12
DateOfBirth = birthdate|1951|04|25
Birthplace = Groves, TX
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OverallRecord = 14–31
Contract = $425,000 [http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/longhorns/01/24/0124texfoot.html "Austin American-Statesman:" Davis to make $425,000, matching pay of Muschamp] ]
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Years = 1970-1972
Team = McNeese State
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Coach = Y
CoachYears = 1973-1974
1975-1977
1978-1984
1985-1987
1988-1991
1992-1993
1994-1995
1996-1997
1998-"present"
CoachTeams = Barbe HS (Assist.)
PNG HS (Assist.)
Texas A&M (QB)
Tulane (WR)
Tulane
Arkansas (OC)
Georgia (OC)
UNC (OC)
Texas (OC)
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BBallHOF =Greg Davis (born
April 25 ,1951 inGroves, Texas )Lane (1982), p. 22.] is acollege football coach. He is currently theoffensive coordinator andquarterback s coach for theUniversity of Texas Longhorns. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigiousBroyles Award for the nation's top assistant coach for the 2005 season which included a national championship victory for the Horns. [cite web | url=http://www.broylesaward.com/html/winner2005.html | title=Broyles Award | accessdate=2007-01-17] Davis is sometimes criticized by UT fans for being overly conservative and for not achieving the full potential of his talented players. [cite news |url=http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/longhorns/11/03/3bohls.html | title=It's time to give credit to Greg Davis - Longhorns have best offensive coordinator in Big 12 | publisher=Austin American-Statesman | author=Bohls, Kirk | date=November 3 2006 | accessdate=2007-01-17]Playing career
Davis attended
Port Neches-Groves High School and then playedquarterback atMcNeese State University , where he first metR. C. Slocum . [cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EA0781DCC745A20&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D | title=Aggie friend and foe | publisher=Austin American-Statesman | author=Halliburton, Suzanne | date=November 27 1998 | accessdate=2007-12-02] He played in theGrantland Rice Bowl in 1971, losing toTennessee State 26–23. He graduated from McNeese State in 1973.Lane (1982), p. 23.]Coaching career
Davis started his coaching career as a quarterbacks/receivers coach at Barbe High School in
Lake Charles, Louisiana . He served two seasons there, and then went on to become the quarterbacks coach for two seasons atPort Neches-Groves High School , which was close to his hometown. He began his college coaching career as thequarterback s coach under Tom Wilson andJackie Sherrill atTexas A&M University . He was a part-time assistant at A&M in 1978, and then was named a full-time coach in 1979. He worked alongside Slocum, who then served as the defensive coordinator.Davis later became an assistant under
Mack Brown atTulane University , and succeeded Brown as Tulane head coach in 1988. Following stints at theUniversity of Georgia and theUniversity of Arkansas , Davis rejoined Brown's coaching staff at North Carolina, before following him to Texas in 1998.For the 2008 season, Davis' salary was raised to $425,000, making him the second highest-paid offensive coordinator in the nation, behind Florida State's
Jimbo Fisher .Head coaching record
CFB Yearly Record Subhead
name = Tulane Green Wave
startyear = 1988
conf = no
endyear = 1991CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1988
name = Tulane
overall = 5–6
conference = no
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ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1989
name = Tulane
overall = 4–8
conference = no
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ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1990
name = Tulane
overall = 4–7
conference = no
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ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1991
name = Tulane
overall = 1–10
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ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Tulane
overall = 14–31CFB Yearly Record End
overall = 14–31
bcs = no
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Notes
References
*citation|last=Lane|first=Oliver|title=The 1982 Maroon Book: Texas Aggie Football|publisher=Taylor Publishing Company|year=1982|location=Dallas, Texas|isbn=0878333282
External links
* [http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=32&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=593&change_well_id=2 Official Texas Longhorns bio]
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