Greg Davis (American football coach)

Greg Davis

Sport(s)	Football
Current position
Title	Offensive coordinator
Team	Iowa
Conference	Big Ten
Annual salary	$1,000,000
Biographical details
Born	April 25, 1951 Groves, Texas
Playing career
1970–1972	McNeese State
Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1973–1974	Barbe HS (LA) (Assistant)
1975–1977	PNG HS (TX) (Assistant)
1978–1984	Texas A&M (QB)
1985–1987	Tulane (AHC/WR)
1988–1991	Tulane
1992–1993	Arkansas (OC/QB)
1994–1995	Georgia (PGC)
1996–1997	North Carolina (OC/QB)
1998–2010	Texas (OC/QB)
2012–present	Iowa (OC/QB)
Head coaching record
Overall	14–31
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Broyles Award (2005)

Greg Davis (born April 25, 1951)^[1] is an American college football coach. He currently serves as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football team. He served as offensive coordinator for the 2005 Texas Longhorns national championship, where he was awarded the Broyles Award for the nation's top assistant coach for the 2005 season.^[2][3]

Playing career

Davis attended Port Neches–Groves High School and then played quarterback at McNeese State University, where he first met R. C. Slocum.^[4] He played in the Grantland Rice Bowl in 1971, losing to Tennessee State 26–23. He graduated from McNeese State in 1973.^[1]

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 at Port Neches-Groves High School, his high school alma mater. He began his college coaching career as the quarterbacks coach under Tom Wilson and Jackie Sherrill at Texas 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 at Tulane University, and succeeded Brown as Tulane head coach in 1988. Following stints at the University of Georgia and the University of Arkansas, Davis rejoined Brown's coaching staff at North Carolina, before following him to Texas in 1998.

For the 2008 season, Davis's salary was raised to $425,000, making him the second highest-paid offensive coordinator in the nation, behind Florida State's Jimbo Fisher.^[5]

However, on December 6, 2010, after the worst season in the Mack Brown era at the University of Texas, Greg Davis resigned as offensive coordinator of the Longhorns. The 2010 season was the first season in 13 years the Longhorns failed to make a bowl game, and the first in nine seasons the Longhorns failed to reach 10 wins on the season.

After a year out of football, Davis was hired by the University of Iowa for the 2012 season. Greg Davis replaced Ken O'Keefe as the offensive coordinator for the Iowa Hawkeyes in 2012.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Tulane Green Wave (NCAA Division I-A independent) (1988–1991)
1988	Tulane	5–6
1989	Tulane	4–8
1990	Tulane	4–7
1991	Tulane	1–10
Tulane:		14–31
Total:		14–31

References

1. Lane (1982), p. 22.
2. "Broyles Award". Archived from the original on 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
3. Bohls, Kirk (November 3, 2006). "It's time to give credit to Greg Davis - Longhorns have best offensive coordinator in Big 12" (PDF). Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
4. Halliburton, Suzanne (November 27, 1998). "Aggie friend and foe". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
5. Austin American-Statesman: Davis to make $425,000, matching pay of Muschamp

Sources

• Lane, Oliver (1982). The 1982 Maroon Book: Texas Aggie Football. Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87833-328-2.

External links

• Iowa profile
• Greg Davis at the College Football Data Warehouse