| Art Briles | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Baylor | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Conference | Big 12 | |
| Team record | 8–16 | |
| Born | December 3, 1955 | |
| Place of birth | Rule, Texas, U.S. | |
| Annual salary | $1,200,000 | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 42–44 (College) 172–42–4 (High school) |
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| Bowls | 0–3 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
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| Playing career | ||
| 1974–1977 | Houston | |
| Position | WR | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1979 1980–1983 1984–1985 1986–1987 1988–1999 2000–2002 2003–2007 2008–present |
Sundown HS (Assist.) Sweetwater HS (Assist.) Hamlin HS Georgetown HS Stephenville HS Texas Tech (RB coach) Houston Baylor |
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Arthur Ray Briles (born December 3, 1955) is an American football coach, who is currently the head coach at Baylor University. Formerly, he was the head coach at the University of Houston.
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Playing career
A native of Rule, Texas, Briles attended Rule High School, where he was coached by his father. Playing quarterback and earning all-state honors, Briles accepted a scholarship offer by Bill Yeoman at the University of Houston. There Briles switched to wide receiver and played three seasons, including the 1977 Cotton Bowl Classic. His parents and aunt died in a car crash on their way to see him play in a game in October 1976. After finishing the 1976–77 academic year, Briles left Houston and transferred to Texas Tech to complete his bachelor's degree, which he earned in 1979.[1][2] He went on to earn a master's degree in education at Abilene Christian University before entering coaching.[1]
Coaching career
High school
| “ | I saw how [Briles] went from running a wishbone offense to a multiple offense that used the shotgun and different kinds of snaps. When he began running the spread in Stephenville, he really put defenses in a bind. | ” |
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—Larry Moorehead, who was an assistant under Briles for 11 years at Hamlin, Georgetown and Stephenville.[3] |
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Briles began his coaching career as an assistant at Sundown High School. From 1980 to 1983, he served as an assistant at Sweetwater High School. At age 28, he became head coach at 2A Hamlin High School, where he coached from 1984 to 1985. He guided the team to a 27–1–1 record including a 35-19 loss to Electra High School in the 1985 state semifinals. His instant success caught the attention of bigger schools, so Briles left Hamlin for 5A Georgetown High School in 1986, where he had a difficult two-year span in the school's first two seasons at the highest classification in Texas high school football. Briles left the school in 1987 with a 4–15–1 overall record.
In 1988, he took over head coaching duties at 4A Stephenville High School in Stephenville, Texas, a school that was playing in the same area as state powerhouse Brownwood High School and had not reached the playoffs in football since 1952. After a 4–5–1 season in 1989, Briles' Stephenville squads made the playoffs in 1990 and ever since. During Briles' tenure they won four state championships, including back-to-back titles in 1993 and 1994, and then again in 1998 and 1999. Coincidentally, in the 1993 and '94 state finals Briles' Stephenville squads faced La Marque, then coached by Briles' defensive coordinator at Houston, Alan Weddell.
Although Stephenville's offense was devastating throughout the 1990s, Briles shifted his offensive scheme from a running game in the early 90s to a passing game in the late 90s. Stephenville's first two state championship teams scored 89 touchdowns rushing in 1993, and 96 touchdowns rushing in 1994, which was second and third all-time in the nation, respectively, only behind Big Sandy's national record 114 touchdowns rushing from the 1975 season. In the late 90s, Briles adapted the spread offense and today is one of the coaches credited for introducing it to Texas high school football.[4] His 1998 team posted 8,664 yards of total offense, breaking the 73-year-old national record 8,588 yards originally established by Pine Bluff High School in 1925.
Briles was also known for developing quarterbacks, sending six of his former players to Division I colleges, including Branndon Stewart, Kevin Kolb, and his son Kendal Briles.
College
Briles left Stephenville after the 1999 season to join Mike Leach's staff at Texas Tech. While serving as running backs coach, Briles improved Texas Tech's rushing average every year from 66.4 yards a game in his first year to 99.6 yards a game in 2002. He also coached all-conference backs and later NFL players Ricky Antwan Williams, Shaud Williams, and Taurean Henderson.
In 2003, Briles was hired as head coach at the University of Houston, where he took over a program that had an 8–26 record under the previous coach, Dana Dimel. The Cougars went 0–11 just two years before Briles's arrival. In his first season, Briles led the Cougars to a 7–5 record, including a 48–54 triple overtime loss to Hawaiʻi, in the Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl.
After a 3–8 season in 2004, Briles guided the Cougars to a 6–6 season and another bowl game in 2005. In 2006, he led the Cougars to a 10–4 record and the Conference USA Championship that was played on December 1, 2006. The Cougars won the game 34-20 and it was the school's second C-USA Championship (the first came in 1996, in the school's inaugural season in the C-USA).
In 2007, the Cougars finished second in the Conference USA West Division to Todd Graham's Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Houston was invited to the Texas Bowl, which was played December 28, 2007 at Reliant Stadium.[5] It was Houston's fourth bowl appearance in five years. However, Briles chose not to fulfill his obligations to Houston and did not coach the game for the Cougars.
Briles interviewed for the Baylor head coach position on November 27, 2007, and was hired the next day.[6][7] At Baylor, Briles took over a program that has not had a winning season since 1995 and has gone 35–101 since joining the Big 12 Conference.
In his first season at Baylor, Briles led the Bears to a 4-8 record, 2-6 in Big 12 play. The season featured the emergence of freshman quarterback Robert Griffin (who had originally committed to play for Briles at Houston). The Bears finished 4-3 at home and played Missouri, Connecticut, Nebraska and Texas Tech close. They also easily defeated "Battle of the Brazos" rival Texas A&M for only the second time since 1985, the other win coming by one point in overtime.
In his second season at Baylor, the Bears again finished with a 4-8 record. However, they only went 1-7 in Big 12 conference play, partially due to the injury of Robert Griffin, who missed every conference game.
College head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | ||||
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| Houston Cougars (Conference USA) (2003–2007) | |||||||||
| 2003 | Houston | 7–6 | 4–4 | T–4th | L Hawaiʻi | ||||
| 2004 | Houston | 3–8 | 3–5 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2005 | Houston | 6–6 | 4–4 | T–3rd | L Fort Worth | ||||
| 2006 | Houston | 10–4 | 7–1 | 1st | L Liberty | ||||
| 2007 | Houston | 8–4* | 6–2 | 2nd (West) | |||||
| Houston: | 34–28 | 24–16 | *left before the bowl game. | ||||||
| Baylor Bears (Big 12) (2008–present) | |||||||||
| 2008 | Baylor | 4–8 | 2–6 | T–5th (South) | — | ||||
| 2009 | Baylor | 4–8 | 1–7 | 5th (South) | — | ||||
| Baylor: | 8–16 | 3–13 | |||||||
| Total: | 42–44 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
References
- ^ a b "Car crash puts things in perspective for Art Briles". ESPN. 2005-12-23. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls05/news/story?id=2268890. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
- ^ "Baylor coach Briles suffered loss of parents early". http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/01/27/0127briles.html.
- ^ Werner, John (2007-11-29). "Former Baylor coach Teaff among those praising Briles' hiring". Waco Tribune. http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/content/sports/college/2007/11/29/11292007wacbrilereax.html.
- ^ Osborne, Jeff (2007-11-30). "Briles built Stephenville into football powerhouse". Waco Tribune. http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/content/sports/college/2007/11/30/11302007wacSHSbriles.html.
- ^ "UH accepts bid to play in Texas Bowl". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5327194.html.
- ^ "Houston's Briles set to interview at Baylor". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/sports/5330659.html.
- ^ Davis, Brian (2007-11-29). "Briles the choice to bring Baylor football back". Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/112907dnspobaylorlede.49c68c4e.html.
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