- Watson Brown
College coach infobox
Name = Watson Brown
Caption =
DateOfBirth = 1950
Birthplace = Cookeville, TN
DateOfDeath =
Sport = Football
College =Tennessee Tech University
Title = Head Coach
CurrentRecord = 4-7
OverallRecord = 98-157-1
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CFbDWID = 266
Player = Y
Years = 1969-72
Team = Vanderbilt
Position =Quarterback
Coach = Y
CoachYears = 1979-80
1983
1984-85
1986-90
1995-2006
2007-
CoachTeams = Austin Peay St. (TN)
Cincinnati (OH)
Rice
Vanderbilt
UAB
Tennessee Tech
FootballHOF =
BBallHOF =Lester Watson Brown is currently the
head coach of theTennessee Tech University college football team. Formerly, he also served as the head coach at UAB from 1995-2006 and asathletic director between 2002-2005. He has also been the head coach for Austin Peay, Cincinnati, Rice, and Vanderbilt. He is the older brother of University of Texas head coachMack Brown .A native of
Cookeville, Tennessee , Brown was aquarterback atVanderbilt University from 1969-1972. Perhaps his greatest achievement with the Commodores was engineering a 14-10 upset over theAlabama Crimson Tide in 1969; it was Vanderbilt’s first victory over Alabama since 1956.After graduating from Vanderbilt, Brown spent the 1973 season as a graduate assistant at Vanderbilt. From there, he went to
East Carolina University , where he spent two seasons as an assistant toPat Dye , coaching quarterbacks andwide receivers . In 1976 and 1977, he served as theoffensive coordinator atJacksonville State University . The Gamecocks played for theDivision II national championship in 1977.Brown spent the 1978 season as an assistant at Texas Tech before landing his first head coaching position a year later. At age 29, he began a two-year stint as the head coach at
Austin Peay State University . The Governors had a record of 14-8 under Brown.In 1981, Brown returned to Vanderbilt to become the school’s offensive coordinator. Two seasons later, he took his first major college head coaching job, taking over the program at the
University of Cincinnati . In one season with the Bearcats, he had a record of 4-6-1.In 1984, Brown was named head football coach and
athletic director atRice University . In two seasons with the Owls, he compiled a record of 4-18. From there he returned to hisalma mater to take over the strugglingVanderbilt University football program. Brown’s five-year stint with the Commodores from 1986-1990 produced a record of 10-45.After leaving Vanderbilt, Brown spent the 1991 and 1992 seasons as the offensive coordinator at
Mississippi State University , then the 1993 and 1994 seasons with the same responsibilities at the University of Oklahoma.In 1995, Brown was hired by UAB to lead the fledgling program as it prepared to move from
Division I-AA to Division I-A. In twelve seasons as the Blazers’ head coach he compiled a record of 62-74, and led the team to its first bowl appearance in theHawaii Bowl in 2004.Brown resigned from UAB to take over the head coaching responsibilities at Tennessee Tech University on December 9, 2006. He is known affectionately on the BlazerTalk.com fansite as "Coach Zero".
Head Coaching Record
CFB Yearly Record Entry
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