art briles

Art Briles
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Art Briles
Title Head coach
College Houston
Sport Football
Conference C-USA
Team record 34-28
Born December 3, 1955 (1955-12-03) (age 51)
Place of birth Rule, Texas
Annual salary $975,000
Career highlights
Overall 34-28
Bowls 0-3
Coaching stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Playing career
1974-1977 Houston
Position WR
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979
1980-1983
1984-1985
1986-1987
1988-1999
2000-2002
2003-present Sundown HS (Assist.)
Sweetwater HS (Assist.)
Hamlin HS
Georgetown HS
Stephenville HS
Texas Tech (RB coach)
Houston
Art Briles (born December 3, 1955) is an American football coach, who is currently the head coach at the University of Houston.

Contents
1 High school coaching career
2 College coaching career
3 Head coaching record
4 References
5 External links



[edit] High school coaching career
After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1979, 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 then became head coach at Hamlin High School, where he coached from 1984 to 1985. From 1986 to 1987, he coached at Georgetown High School.

In 1988 he took over head coaching duties at Stephenville High School in Stephenville, Texas. The Stephenville Yellow Jackets did not make the playoffs in football from 1952-1989, but during Briles' tenure they won four state championships, including back-to-back titles in 1993 and 1994, and then again in 1998 and 1999. His 1998 team posted a then national record 8,650 yards of total offense and still holds the third and fourth positions on the national all-time list.

Ironically, in the 1993 and '94 state finals Briles' Stephenville squads faced La Marque, then coached by current Houston defensive coordinator Alan Weddell.


[edit] College coaching career
From 2000 to 2002, Briles served as running backs coach under Mike Leach at Texas Tech.

In 2003, he was hired as head coach at the University of Houston. In his first season, he led the Cougars to a 7-5 record, including a 48-54 triple overtime loss to Hawaiʻi, in the Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl.

In 2006, Briles led the Cougars to a 10-3 regular season 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 inaugal season in the C-USA).

In 2007, Houston was invited to the Texas Bowl, which will be played December 28 at Reliant Stadium.[1] It is Houston's fourth bowl appearance in five years.

Briles is rumored to be the top candidate for Mike Leach's replacement at Texas Tech University, if Leach leaves for UCLA.[2] He is also a candidate for Baylor, and interviewed for that job on November 27, 2007.[3]

Art Briles flew to Dallas Tuesday to discuss the vacant head coaching position at Baylor University.

According to University of Houston athletics director Dave Maggard, who spoke with Briles after his meeting with Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw, no formal offer had been made and no real contract details were discussed.

"I spoke with Art (early Tuesday afternoon) and he indicated that he had met with the Baylor people and that he had not been offered," Maggard said. "He thought that they would have the hiring resolved within the next couple of days."

Briles has four years remaining on a contract extension he signed last year; a deal that is worth $900,000 per year and could exceed $1 million with incentives. That contract has a $300,000 buyout that would allow Briles, 51, to accept another job.

Baylor is seeking a replacement for Guy Morriss, who was fired Nov. 18, one day after the Bears completed a 3-9 season, their 12th straight losing season, and went 0-8 in the Big 12. In five years under Morriss the Bears went 18-40 overall and 7-33 in Big 12 games.

Briles has coached at the University of Houston for five years, compiling a 34-28 record and taking the Cougars to four bowl games, including the 2007 Texas Bowl, which will be played on Dec. 28 at Reliant Stadium.

The Cougars, who accepted the Texas Bowl invitation after finishing 8-4 this season, have not won a bowl game since 1980.

Briles was traveling and unavailable for comment.