Watson Brown

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Watson Brown
Title	Head Coach
College	Tennessee Tech University
Sport	Football
Team Record	0-0
Born	1950
Place of birth	Cookeville, TN
Career Highlights
Overall	94-151-1
Coaching Stats
College Football DataWarehouse
School as a player
1969-72	Vanderbilt
Position	Quarterback
Coaching positions
1979-80 1983 1984-85 1986-90 1995-2006 2007-	Austin Peay St. (TN) (I-AA) Cincinnati (OH) Rice Vanderbilt UAB Tennessee Tech University (I-AA)

Watson Brown is currently the head coach of the Tennessee Tech University college football team. Formerly, he also served as the head coach at UAB from 1995-2006 and as athletic 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 coach Mack Brown.

A native of Cookeville, Tennessee, Brown was a quarterback at Vanderbilt University from 1969-1972. Perhaps his greatest achievement with the Commodores was engineering a 14-10 upset over the Alabama 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 to Pat Dye, coaching quarterbacks and wide receivers. In 1976 and 1977, he served as the offensive coordinator at Jacksonville State University. The Gamecocks played for the Division 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 was 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 at Rice University. In two seasons with the Owls, he compiled a record of 4-18. From there he returned to his alma mater to take over the struggling Vanderbilt 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 the Hawaii Bowl in 2004.

Brown resigned from UAB to take over the head coaching responsibilities at Tennessee Tech University on December 9, 2006.

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Preceded by Mike Gottfried	Cincinnati Bearcats Head Football Coaches 1983	Succeeded by Dave Currey
Preceded by George MacIntyre	Vanderbilt Head Football Coaches 1986-1990	Succeeded by Gerry DiNardo
Preceded by Jim Hilyer	UAB Blazers Head Football Coaches 1995-2006	Succeeded by Neil Callaway