Rich Brooks
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| Rich Brooks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Head Coach | |
| College | Kentucky | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Team Record | 17-30 | |
| Born | August 20, 1941 (age 65) | |
| Place of birth | Forest, California | |
| Career Highlights | ||
| Overall | 106-141 | |
| Coaching Stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Awards | ||
| 1994 Paul "Bear" Bryant Award 1996 Home Depot Coach of the Year Award |
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| School as a player | ||
| 1961-63 | Oregon State | |
| Position | defensive back | |
| Coaching positions | ||
| 1977-93 2003-Present |
Oregon Kentucky |
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Rich Brooks (born August 20, 1941, Forest, California, United States) is an American football coach, who is currently the head football coach for the University of Kentucky.
Brooks graduated from Oregon State University in 1963, after playing as a defensive back for 3 years. He was an assistant coach for the Beavers from 1965-1970. Brooks is best known for spending 18 seasons at the University of Oregon, and winning the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award for national coach of the year after leading Oregon to the Rose Bowl in 1994.
After reviving Oregon's football program, Brooks spent a few years in the National Football League, highlighted by two years as head coach of the rebuilding St. Louis Rams, in which the team went 13-19. After leaving St. Louis, Brooks spent four years on Dan Reeves' staff in Atlanta, and served as interim head coach for the final two games of the 1998 season, in which the Falcons went 14-2.
After two years away from the game, Brooks was hired as head coach at the University of Kentucky prior to the 2003 season. There was some controversy surrounding Brooks' hiring, since he had been away from the game, and had worked with the Kentucky athletic director at Oregon. Brooks inherited a team that was 7-5 in 2002, but was yet to feel the full effect of NCAA probation imposed because of recruiting violations committed by a prior Kentucky coaching staff. In Brooks' first three seasons his squads posted records of 4-8, 2-9 and 3-8 (9-25 overall, 4-20 in Southeastern Conference games).
Brooks coached the 2006 Kentucky squad to a 7-5 regular season record. The Wildcats earned their first bowl bid since 1999, a date with Clemson University in the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee where Brooks' Wildcats defeated the Tigers 28-20 for Kentucky's first bowl victory since 1984. On December 23, 2006, Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart announced that the University and Brooks had agreed to a contract extension for four years, plus an additional year at the University's option. Brook's base pay will be $1 million per year plus other incentives [1].
[edit] Notes
- ^ New Contract Finalized for Coach Rich Brooks. UK Athletic Department (2007-01-30). Retrieved on February 11, 2007.
[edit] External links
- ESPN.com - Brooks to land Kentucky coaching post
- Rich Brooks Profile
- True Blue Believers
- FireRichBrooks.com
| Preceded by Don Read |
University of Oregon Head Football Coach 1977–1994 |
Succeeded by Mike Bellotti |
| Preceded by Chuck Knox |
St. Louis Rams Head Coach 1995–1996 |
Succeeded by Dick Vermeil |
| Preceded by Jim Bates |
Atlanta Falcons Defensive Coordinator 1997–2000 |
Succeeded by Don Blackmon |
| Preceded by Guy Morriss |
University of Kentucky Head Football Coach 2003– |
Succeeded by (current) |
| Preceded by Terry Bowden |
Paul "Bear" Bryant National Coach of the Year Award 1994 |
Succeeded by Gary Barnett |
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| Saint Louis Rams Head Coaches |
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| Bezdek • Lewis • Clark • Donelli • Walsh • Snyder • Shaughnessy • Stydahar • Pool • Gillman • Waterfield • Svare • Allen • Prothro • Knox • Malavasi • Robinson • Knox • Brooks • Vermeil • Martz • Vitt • Linehan |
| Current Head Football Coaches of the Southeastern Conference |
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Rich Brooks (Kentucky) | Sylvester Croom (Mississippi State) | Phillip Fulmer (Tennessee) | Bobby Johnson (Vanderbilt) | Urban Meyer (Florida) | Les Miles (LSU) | Houston Nutt (Arkansas) | Ed Orgeron (Ole Miss) | Mark Richt (Georgia) | Nick Saban (Alabama) | Steve Spurrier (South Carolina) | Tommy Tuberville (Auburn) | |
