- Darrell Royal
Darrell K. Royal (born July 6, 1924 in Hollis, Oklahoma), is a College Football Hall of Fame member, and is the most successful football coach, in terms of wins, in University of Texas Longhorn history. Darrell Royal has a middle initial but no middle name. The "K" is in honor of his mother, Katy, who died when he was an infant. She died of cancer, but because of the taboo surrounding the disease at that time, …
- Mack Brown
William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. During the 2005 season, Coach Brown led the Longhorns to a Rose Bowl victory and a National Championship. With the 2006 season, Brown led his team to win 10 games or more for six straight years, which is the best current ten-win streak in the NCAA. Prior to coaching at Texas, Brown coached at Appalachian State, Tulane, and North Carolina.
- Gene Chizik
Gene Chizik (born December 28, 1961 in Clearwater, Florida) is the current head football coach at Iowa State University. Chizik played linebacker for the University of Florida during the 1981 season, competing in the Peach Bowl. He graduated from Florida in 1985. He began his coaching career at Seminole High School in Saint Petersburg, FL, serving as their defensive coordinator and inside linebacker coach from 1986-1988.
- Dick Tomey
Dick Tomey (born June 20 1938, in Bloomington, Indiana) is a football coach. He is currently the head coach at San Jose State University.
- Gary Darnell
Gary Darnell (born October 15, 1948) is currently the defensive coordinator of the Texas A&M Aggies football team. A long-time defensive coordinator, Darnell was previously the head coach at Western Michigan University and Tennessee Technological University, and interim head coach at the University of Florida. Gary Darnell attended Oklahoma State University as a personal management major and linebacker for the Cowboys football team.
- Duane Akina
Duane Akina is the co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach for the University of Texas Longhorn football team. Although he shares the defensive coordinator position with Larry Mac Duff, it is believed that Akina will be calling the defensive plays for the 2007-08 season. In 28 years of coaching football, Akina has coached 3 Thorpe Award winners in Darryll Lewis (1990), Michael Huff (2005), and Aaron Ross (2006), as well as five finalists for the award.
- Dana X. Bible
Dana Xenophon Bible (October 8, 1891 to January 19, 1980) was a highly successful college football head coach. He is most well known for his excellent coaching at Texas A&M, Nebraska, and Texas. Throughout his career he compiled a 198-72-23 (.715) record. 30 out of his 33 seasons were winning seasons. He twice won 10 games in a season. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Bible's 1919 football team at Texas A&M University, …
- John Mackovic
John Mackovic is the head coach of the U.S.'s first American Football World Cup team. The former college and professional American football head coach, is preparing the U.S. team to compete in the 3rd American Football World Cup tournament. Previously, Mackovic had served as the head coach in college football for Wake Forest University (1978-1980), the University of Illinois (1988-1991), the University of Texas (1992-1998), and the University of Arizona (2001-2003).
- Les Koenning Jr.
Les Koenning, Jr. (born February 10, 1959) is currently the offensive coordinator of the Texas A&M Aggies football team.
- Greg Davis
Greg Davis is a college football coach. He is currently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the University of Texas Longhorns. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Broyles Award for the nation's top assistant coach for the 2005 season which included a national championship victory for the Horns. Davis is consistently criticized by UT fans for being overly conservative and for not achieving the full potential of his talented players.
- Larry Mac Duff
Larry Mac Duff is an American football coach. He currently serves as co-defensive coordinator for the Texas Longhorns, alongside Duane Akina. He was hired on January 7, 2007, to replace Gene Chizik, who left Texas after two seasons to become the head coach at Iowa State University. Mac Duff and Akina were responsible for the so-called “Desert Swarm” defense at University of Arizona, which led the nation in scoring defense in 1992, allowing only 8.9 points per game, …
- Rex Norris
Rex Norris (born December 10, 1939 in Tipton, Indiana) is a former college linebacker who has coached college football and NFL teams during the past 40 years. <BR><BR> Norris has a long history of coaching football teams. After playing the position of linebacker himself, Norris moved on to coaching college football. In 1972 already, he was coaching Texas A&M. One year later he moved on to take up the position of assistant coach for Barry Switzer at Oklahoma.
- David McWilliams
David McWilliams was an assistant and head coach for the Texas Longhorns football team and also spent one year as the head football coach for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Raised in Cleburne, Texas, McWilliams long tenure with the Longhorn football program started from 1961-1963, when he helped the team compile a record of 30-2-1. During that time, the squad won a national championship, …
- Greg Robinson
Greg Robinson(b. in Los Angeles, California) is the current head coach of the Syracuse University football team. Robinson was awarded the job in January 2005 after the firing of coach Paul Pasqualoni, who had been head coach since 1991. Robinson had been the co-defensive coordinator at Texas during the 2004 season. Prior to that he was defensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs under Dick Vermeil.
- Mac McWhorter
Mac McWhorter is the offensive line coach for the Texas Longhorns and was the interim head coach for Georgia Tech's football team in 2001, and only coached for one game, the Seattle Bowl against No. 11-ranked Stanford. The team won, 24 to 14, technically giving McWhorter the highest win percentage of any Georgia Tech football coach. McWhorter is currently in his sixth year with the Longhorns.
- E. J. Stewart
E. J. Stewart was a collegiate football, baseball, and basketball coach. From 1911 to 1916 he coached the Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team, in 1912 he coached the Oregon State Beavers baseball team, and from 1913 to 1916 he coached the Oregon State Beavers football team. In football he compiled a 15-5-5 record. From 1916 to 1917, he coached at the University of Nebraska posting an 11-4 record.
- Spike Dykes
William Taylor "Spike" Dykes (born March 14, 1938) was the head football coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders from 1987 to 1999. He compiled a 82-67-1 record. He was the first coach in school history to lead the team to seven straight bowl-eligible seasons and to coach the team in seven bowl games. He was also the school's first coach to defeat the Texas Longhorns in five different seasons.
- Fred Akers
Fred Akers was the football coach of The University of Texas Longhorns from 1977 to 1986. His notable accomplishments include a Heisman Trophy for Earl Campbell in the 1977 season and national title chances in the 1978 and 1984 Cotton Bowls. In both of those years Texas went undefeated in the regular season only to lose in their bowl game. Akers received criticism because he failed to live up to the standard set by previous head coach Darrell Royal.
- Emory Bellard
Emory Bellard (born December 27, 1927, in Luling, Texas) is a former college football coach. He was head coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985. Bellard is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
- Eugene van Gent
Conrad Eugene Van Gent was a college football and college basketball head coach at the University of Missouri, The University of Texas, and Stanford University. During his two seasons as basketball head coach at Missouri (1914-16), Van Gent led to the Tigers to a 21-9 overall record. Texas hired Van Gent as both football and basketball head coach in 1916; he coached for one season in each sport before joining the military to fight in the First World War.
- Frank Crawford
Frank Crawford was a college football coach at Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Texas. In 1891, he (with Mike Murphy) coached the Michigan team to a 4-5 record; this was the first year the Michigan team had coaches. In 1892, he coached at Wisconsin, and compiled a 4-3 record. From 1893 to 1894 he served as the head football coach at Nebraska, where he compiled a 10-2-1 record. In 1895, he served as the head coach at Texas, where he posted a 5-0 record.
- Ralph Hutchinson
Ralph Hutchinson was a college football coach at Idaho, Idaho State, and Texas. From 1903 to 1905, he coached at Texas, where he compiled a 16-7-2 record. In 1919, he coached at Idaho, where he compiled a 2-3 record. From 1920 to 1927, he coached at Idaho State, where he compiled a 25-22-2 record. His overall record stands at 43-34-4. He played quarterback at Princeton.
- Ed Price
Ed Price was a football coach at the University of Texas. During his tenure there, he went 33-27-1.
- Jeff Madden
Jeff "Mad Dog" Madden is the strength and conditioning coach for the college football team of The University of Texas, the Texas Longhorns. He helped the team win the 2005 National Championship. Included among his students are two Heisman Trophy winners: Rashaan Salaam and Ricky Williams.
- Clyde Littlefield
Clyde Littlefield (October 6, 1892 to May 20, 1981) was the head football coach at The University of Texas from 1927 to 1933. During his seven-year tenure, he compiled a 44-18-6 record and won two Southwest Conference championships. Littlefield graduated from South Park High School in Beaumont. From 1912 to 1916, he attended The University of Texas, where he earned twelve letters in football, basketball, and track.
- William Juneau
William B. Juneau was a college football coach. From 1906 to 1908, he coached at South Dakota State where he compiled a 11-6-1 record. From 1912 to 1915, he coached at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he compiled an 18-8-2 record. From 1917 to 1920, he coached at the University of Texas where he compiled a 19-17 record. From 1920 to 1922, he coached at the University of Kentucky where he compiled a 13-10-2 record.
- Alan Lowry
Alan Lowry is the special-teams coordinator for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. He completed his 25th season in the NFL, the last 11 with the Titans.
- Ray Willsey
Ray Willsey was the head football coach at the University of California from 1964 to 1971. During his tenure he compiled a 40-42-1 record. He was also a coach for the Saint Louis Cardinals football team in 1961, where he went 2-0. He was also an assistant coach at the University of Texas. In 1988, he served as head coach of the Los Angeles Cobras during that team's only year of existence in the Arena Football League, in which his team compiled a 5-6-1 record.
- Blair Cherry
Johnson Blair Cherry (August 7, 1901 - September 10, 1966) was a baseball and football coach for The University of Texas, and is a member of the Longhorn Hall of Honor and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.