Gary Etcheverry

Gary Etcheverry is an American football coach who has coached in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, German Football League, Canadian Junior Football League, CIS, and NCAA.

After graduating from USC in 1978, he began coaching at the University of San Diego where he was the offensive line and defensive line coach. His next job was as the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at the University of Redlands. In 1981 he was an offensive and defensive assistant at San Francisco State University. His offensive coordinator at SFSU was Mike Holmgren.

In 1982, Etcheverry began a 7 year tenure as Defensive coordinator at Occidental College. He coached with the Tigers from 1982-1987, leaving in 1988 to serve as a special assistant with the Los Angeles Rams. He returned to Occidental for one more season before accepting the head coaching possistion at Macalester College. He was fired after a 0-10 1993 season. In his four seasons with the Fighting Scots, he had a 2-37 overall record.

In 1994 he moved to the German Football League where he was the Defensive Coordinator of the Hamburg Blue Devils before becoming head coach of the Stuttgart Scorpions in 1996.

In 1997 he returned to North America, this time as the defensive line coach of the Toronto Argonauts. In 1999 he was promoted to Defensive Co-ordinator by head coach Jim Barker. He left the team before the 2000 season after head coach John Huard chewed out the defense during a press conference, despite it being among the best in the league, leading in 12 of 25 statistical categories and coach Huard never seeing the team play a game. [http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam020123/col_fidlin-sun.html] After leaving the Argos, he was Danny Barrett's Defensive Co-ordinator with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and in 2001 was the Defensive coordinator of the BC Lions.

In 2002 he was hired by team President Pinball Clemons to serve as the Toronto Argonauts head coach. He was fired after a 4-8 start and replaced by Pinball Clemons.

In 2004 he replaced Kit Lathrop as defensive co-ordinator of the Ottawa Renegades. After one season in Ottawa, he was hired as special teams coordinator and assistant defensive coordinator for the UBC Thunderbirds. In 2006 he was an assistant with the South Surrey Big Kahuna Rams as well as a guest coach at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers training camp.

On April 7, 2008, Etcheverry joined the Saskatchewan Roughriders as their defensive assistant coach. [http://www.cfl.ca/index.php?module=newser&func=display&nid=23415]

CFL Coaching Record

External links

* [http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=2708772 Argos finally name their man]
* [http://www.universitysport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?id=4700 UBC welcomes Etcheverry into football fold]
* [http://www.bcjuniorfootball.ca/Content/Media/Rams%20Media%20Releases/06%20Etcheverry%20Joins%20Big%20Kahuna%20Rams%20Staff.asp Etcheverry Joins Big Kahuna Rams Staff]
* [http://www.canoe.ca/Argos/News/2004/04/02/406414.html Argos name Etcheverry head coach]