LaVell Edwards
Edwards in 2010
Biographical details
Born	(1930-10-11) October 11, 1930 (age 81) Orem, Utah
Playing career
1949–1951	Utah State
Position(s)	Offensive lineman
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1954–1961 1962–1971 1972–2000	Granite HS (UT) Brigham Young (assistant) Brigham Young
Head coaching record
Overall	257–101–3 (college)
Bowls	7–14–1
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 1 National (1984) 18 WAC (1974, 1976–1985, 1989–1993, 1995–1996) 1 MWC (1999)
Awards Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (1979) AFCA Coach of the Year (1984) Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1984) Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (2003)
College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2004 (profile)

R. LaVell Edwards (born October 11, 1930) is a former American football coach of Brigham Young University (BYU). With 257 career victories, he ranks as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. Among his many notable accomplishments, Edwards guided BYU to a national championship in 1984 and coached Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer in 1990.

Edwards played football for Utah State University and earned a Masters degree at the University of Utah prior to coaching at BYU. While head football coach at BYU, Edwards also earned a doctorate. He and his wife served an 18-month mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York City during 2002–2003.^[1]

LaVell serves as a National Advisor to ASCEND: A Humanitarian Alliance. This non-profit organization plans expeditions to African and South American countries to provide life skills mentoring with sustainable solutions in education, enterprise, health and simple technology.^[2]

Coaching career[link]

Edwards was BYU's head football coach from 1972 to 2000. His offensive scheme was passing-dominated. He started coaching in an era when college football offenses were dominated by strong running attacks. His quarterbacks threw over 11,000 passes for more than 100,000 yards and 635 touchdowns. He got the idea to switch to a pass oriented team by looking at BYU's history. The BYU football program had been a dismal failure before Edwards with the notable exception of one conference championship that resulted from the aerial attack of Virgil Carter. This past success encouraged Edwards to open up the BYU offense.

Edwards coached prominent quarterbacks such as Gary Scheide, Gifford Nielsen, Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Robbie Bosco, Ty Detmer, Steve Sarkisian, and Brandon Doman.

Awards won by his players include a Heisman Trophy, a Doak Walker Award, a Maxwell Award, two Outland Trophies, four Davey O'Brien Awards, seven Sammy Baugh Awards, and 31 All-America citations, including 11 consensus All-Americans. In 1984, he was named National Coach of the Year after BYU finished the season 13–0 and won the National Championship. Edwards retired after the 2000 season with a 257–101–3 record for a .717 winning percentage.

Prior to Edwards' final game, the football stadium at Brigham Young University was renamed LaVell Edwards Stadium in his honor. At the time of his retirement, he ranked sixth in all-time victories. Edwards received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award, presented by the American Football Coaches Association, in 2003.

In the 1980 Holiday Bowl, BYU rallied from a 45–25 deficit with only 4 minutes to play to defeat Southern Methodist University (SMU). Trailing 45–39 with seconds to go, Quarterback Jim McMahon, completed a game winning touchdown pass to Clay Brown.

Following the 1984 national championship, Edwards was offered the head coaching positions with the Detroit Lions as well as the University of Texas at Austin.^{[citation needed]}

Edwards remains a prominent leader and speaker for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is affiliated with BYU.

Accomplishments[link]

Edwards carrying the Olympic Torch in 2002

• 6th on NCAA all-time list for coaching victories (257)
• Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Coached 6 all-American quarterbacks
• His teams led the nation in passing offense 8 times
• His teams led the nation in total offense 5 times
• His teams led the nation in scoring offense 3 times

Coaching tree[link]

• Dick Felt, former BYU assistant athletic director/assistant head coach/defensive coordinator/defensive backfield coach (BYU defensive back/running back/punter)
• Mike Holmgren, former Seattle Seahawks Coach & Cleveland Browns President of Operations (BYU quarterbacks coach)
• Steve Sarkisian, University of Washington head coach (BYU quarterback)
• Hal Mumme, New Mexico State coach
• Norm Chow, Hawaii head coach (BYU offensive coordinator)
• Dave Kragthorpe, former Oregon State head coach, (father of Steve Kragthorpe) (BYU offensive line coach)
• Kyle Whittingham, Utah head coach (BYU linebacker)
• Fred Whittingham, longtime NFL and college assistant coach (BYU Defensive Coordinator)
• Robert Anae University of Arizona offensive coordinator (BYU offensive Lineman)
• Brian Billick, former NFL head coach (BYU tight end/graduate assistant)
• Ted Tollner, former USC head coach (BYU offensive coordinator)
• Doug Scovil, former SDSU head coach (BYU offensive coordinator)
• Brandon Doman, BYU offensive coordinator (BYU quarterback)
• Tom Holmoe, BYU athletic director & former Cal head coach (BYU Defensive Back)
• Andy Reid, Philadelphia Eagles head coach (BYU lineman/graduate assistant)
• Charlie Stubbs, Louisville offensive coordinator (BYU graduate assistant)

Head coaching record[link]

See also[link]

• Legends Poll
• List of presidents of the American Football Coaches Association
• List of college football coaches with 200 wins

References[link]

External links[link]

• LaVell Edwards at the College Football Hall of Fame
• LaVell Edwards at the College Football Data Warehouse

Ron McBride (born October 14, 1939) is a retired football coach. Most recently, he was the head coach of Weber State University's football team. Coach "Mac" coached for over 40 years, including 13 years as head coach at the University of Utah.

A native of Los Angeles, California, McBride was an all-city football and baseball standout at South Gate High School. He graduated from San Jose State where he played for the Spartans from 1959–62 and served as team captain his senior year. He later played professionally with the San Jose Apaches of the USA League.

Coaching history[link]

McBride began his career at San Jose State in 1965, serving as the freshman coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. He then spent two years as an assistant coach at Piedmont Hills High School (1966–68) and as an assistant at Gavilan Junior College (1969–71), before returning to the NCAA collegiate ranks. From 1972-73, he served as an assistant coach at UC-Riverside, where he was in charge of the offensive line and served as offensive coordinator. He then served in the same capacities at Long Beach State from 1974-76.

McBride first came to Utah in 1977 to serve as the offensive line coach and offensive coordinator under Coach Wayne Howard at Utah. In 1983, he accepted a position as the offensive line coach at Wisconsin, where he served two seasons before returning to Salt Lake City, coaching the offensive line from 1985-86 under head coach Jim Fassel.

In 1987, he left the Utes to join Dick Tomey's staff at Arizona. He served two years as the offensive line coach and was elevated to assistant head coach during the 1989 season. Following that season he became the head coach at Utah.

Head coach at Utah[link]

McBride inherited a program that had only had five winning seasons in the previous 16 years, and had not posted a winning season in Western Athletic Conference play since 1985. He didn't take long to turn the program around. In 1991, his second season, he posted a 7-5 record, but a blowout loss to rival BYU kept them out of a bowl. A year later, he led the Utes to the 1992 Copper Bowl, the program's first bowl appearance in 28 years. He took the Utes to six bowl games during his tenure, a noteworthy feat considering the Utes had played in just three bowl games in the previous 97 years. His teams posted bowl wins over USC, Arizona and Fresno State. During his tenure at Utah, McBride posted an overall record of 88-63 (.582), the second most wins by a coach in the history of Utah football.

His best season came in 1994 when the Utes won a then-record 10 games and attained the highest post-season ranking, at the time, in school history climbing to No. 8 in the USA Today/ESPN poll and No. 10 in the AP poll. In conference games, he guided the Utes to a 58-42 record and won a share of two conference championships (1995 in the WAC and 1999 in the Mountain West). McBride excelled in the rivalry games within the state of Utah. His Utes dominated Utah State (11-2), and held their own against perennial power BYU. Utah won six of their last 11 against the Cougars after losing 16 of the previous 18 before he took over. In 1998, he was a serious candidate to take over the moribund program at Hawaii, a position that eventually went to June Jones.^[3]

McBride's tenure at Utah began to falter in 2000. The Utes, Conference Co-Champions the previous year, had been picked to win the Mountain West Conference, but lost their first four games en route to a 4-7 record, their first losing record since McBride's arrival. Season-ticket sales fell 15% as a result, problematic given the costly rebuilding of Rice-Eccles Stadium, and pressure rose to fire McBride.^[4] The Utes rebounded in 2001, achieving a winning record and scoring an upset win in the 2001 Las Vegas Bowl over the USC Trojans in Pete Carroll's first season. With the Utes slipping again into a losing season, McBride was fired by Utah after the 2002 season and replaced by Urban Meyer.^[2] Despite the inglorious end to McBride's tenure, he is credited with laying the foundation for Utah's rise to national prominence under Meyer and his former defensive coordinator, Kyle Whittingham.

After Utah[link]

After leaving Utah Coach McBride took over as the inside linebacker coach at Kentucky in 2002. He returned to the state of Utah in 2004, when he was named head coach of the Weber State Wildcats, a IAA team in the Big Sky conference.

Head coaching record[link]

Notable players gone to NFL[link]

(McBride has seen over 70 of his players go to the NFL)

• Jamal Anderson - All-Pro running back, played for the Atlanta Falcons
• Mike Anderson - 2000 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, played for the Denver Broncos
• Kevin Dyson - The first wide receiver taken in the 1998 NFL draft and a starter for the Tennessee Titans in the 2000 Super Bowl;
• Andre Dyson - Cornerback selected by the Tennessee Titans in 2nd round of the 2001 NFL Draft and brother to Kevin.
• Luther Ellis - All-Pro defensive lineman, played for the Detroit Lions
• Steve Smith - Led the NFL in kickoff returns in 2001 and the only rookie named to the Pro Bowl team, plays for Carolina Panthers
• Jordan Gross - The number eighth pick in the first round of the NFL draft and current starting offensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers.
• Pat McQuistan - Offensive Lineman selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 7th round of the 2006 NFL Draft (Weber State)
• Paul McQuistan - Offensive Lineman selected by the Oakland Raiders in the 3rd round of the 2006 NFL Draft (Weber State)
• David Hale - Offensive Lineman selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the 4th round of the 2008 NFL Draft (Weber State)
• J.D. Folsom - Linebacker selected by the Miami Dolphins in the 7th round of the 2009 NFL Draft (Weber State)
• Marcus Mailei - Fullback signed to Philadelphia Eagles practice squad in 2009, before signing with the Super Bowl-winning New Orleans Saints midseason. (Weber State)
• Tim Toone - Wide receiver, and Mr. Irrelevant of the 2010 NFL Draft. Selected by the Detroit Lions with the 255th pick in the 7th round.

References[link]

External links[link]

• College Football Data Warehouse - Ron McBride - head coaching records