Longtime Assistant Coach Greg Davis to Receive the AFCA’s 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award
October 3, 2023
Greg Davis, a longtime assistant coach at Texas A&M, Tulane, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Iowa, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 AFCA Outstanding Achievement Award. The AFCA Board of Trustees created the Outstanding Achievement Award to recognize AFCA members, past and present, who have achieved outstanding success while coaching football. Davis will be honored at the AFCA Awards Luncheon on Monday, January 8, 2024, during the annual AFCA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
Davis began his coaching career at the high school level in 1973 before joining the world of college football in 1978. He ended up spending 43 years in the profession, retiring in 2016. Davis started as an assistant coach at Barbe High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana, then returned to his high school alma mater at Port Neches-Groves High School (Tex.) in 1975. He was an assistant with the Indians for three seasons, helping them to the Texas 4A state title in 1975.
Davis moved to Texas A&M in 1978 where he landed his first job in college football as a part-time assistant. In 1979, he was hired on full-time, coaching quarterbacks with the Aggies for seven seasons. Davis left Texas A&M and joined Mack Brown at Tulane in 1985 as assistant head coach and wide receivers coach for three years. He took over as head coach of the Green Wave in 1988 when Brown left to be head coach at North Carolina. After four years as Tulane’s head coach, Davis went on to serve as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas from 1992-93, then Georgia’s passing game coordinator from 1994-95, before rejoining Mack Brown at North Carolina for two years (1996-97).
Davis followed Brown to Texas in 1998, where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He spent 13 years with the Longhorns, producing five Big 12 Offensive Players of the Year and three NFL quarterbacks in Vince Young, Chris Simms, and Colt McCoy. Davis helped Texas win eight bowl games during his tenure, including the 2005 BCS national championship.
Davis left Texas after the 2010 season and took a year off from coaching. He was hired in 2012 as the offensive coordinator at Iowa, where he coached until 2016. During his five seasons, the Hawkeyes won 39 games, appeared in four January bowl games, and won the Big Ten West Division in 2015 with a school-record 12 victories.
Considered by many as one of the best assistant coaches in college football, Davis was a finalist for the Broyles Award in 1999 and won it in 2005 after helping Texas to the national title that season. Throughout his 38 years in college football, Davis coached in 22 bowl games and two BCS national title games.
Davis and his wife, Patsy, have two children and five grandchildren. A native of Groves, Texas, Davis earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McNeese State University where he played quarterback.
Past Outstanding Achievement Award winners include: Tim Marcum, Tampa Bay Storm (2003); Joe Moore, Pittsburgh, Temple, Notre Dame (2005); Homer Smith, Davidson, Pacific, Army (2006); Ted Kempski, Delaware (2007); Ken Donahue, Alabama, Tennessee, Memphis, Mississippi State (2008); Roland Christensen, Wisconsin-La Crosse, Winona State (2009); Bill Hickey, Notre Dame, Coast Guard, Swarthmore, Princeton (2012); Joe Kines, Jacksonville State, Clemson, Florida, Alabama, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida State, Texas A&M (2013); Woody McCorvey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi State, Clemson (2014); Mike Terwilliger, East Stroudsburg (2015); Randy Hart, Tampa, Iowa State, Purdue, Ohio State, Washington, Notre Dame, Stanford (2016); George Belu, Marshall, Denison, Miami (Ohio), Colorado, NC State, LSU, Indiana, Wake Forest, Ohio State, Arizona Cardinals, Ohio Dominican (2017); Joe Whitt, Sr., Auburn (2018); Jerry Brown, Northwestern (2019); Bill Faircloth, Wake Forest (2021) and Ken Browning, North Carolina (2022).
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Greg Davis, a longtime assistant coach at Texas A&M, Tulane, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Iowa, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 AFCA Outstanding Achievement Award. The AFCA Board of Trustees created the Outstanding Achievement Award to recognize AFCA members, past and present, who have achieved outstanding success while coaching football. Davis will be honored at the AFCA Awards Luncheon on Monday, January 8, 2024, during the annual AFCA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
Davis began his coaching career at the high school level in 1973 before joining the world of college football in 1978. He ended up spending 43 years in the profession, retiring in 2016. Davis started as an assistant coach at Barbe High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana, then returned to his high school alma mater at Port Neches-Groves High School (Tex.) in 1975. He was an assistant with the Indians for three seasons, helping them to the Texas 4A state title in 1975.
Davis moved to Texas A&M in 1978 where he landed his first job in college football as a part-time assistant. In 1979, he was hired on full-time, coaching quarterbacks with the Aggies for seven seasons. Davis left Texas A&M and joined Mack Brown at Tulane in 1985 as assistant head coach and wide receivers coach for three years. He took over as head coach of the Green Wave in 1988 when Brown left to be head coach at North Carolina. After four years as Tulane’s head coach, Davis went on to serve as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas from 1992-93, then Georgia’s passing game coordinator from 1994-95, before rejoining Mack Brown at North Carolina for two years (1996-97).
Davis followed Brown to Texas in 1998, where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He spent 13 years with the Longhorns, producing five Big 12 Offensive Players of the Year and three NFL quarterbacks in Vince Young, Chris Simms, and Colt McCoy. Davis helped Texas win eight bowl games during his tenure, including the 2005 BCS national championship.
Davis left Texas after the 2010 season and took a year off from coaching. He was hired in 2012 as the offensive coordinator at Iowa, where he coached until 2016. During his five seasons, the Hawkeyes won 39 games, appeared in four January bowl games, and won the Big Ten West Division in 2015 with a school-record 12 victories.
Considered by many as one of the best assistant coaches in college football, Davis was a finalist for the Broyles Award in 1999 and won it in 2005 after helping Texas to the national title that season. Throughout his 38 years in college football, Davis coached in 22 bowl games and two BCS national title games.
Davis and his wife, Patsy, have two children and five grandchildren. A native of Groves, Texas, Davis earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McNeese State University where he played quarterback.
Past Outstanding Achievement Award winners include: Tim Marcum, Tampa Bay Storm (2003); Joe Moore, Pittsburgh, Temple, Notre Dame (2005); Homer Smith, Davidson, Pacific, Army (2006); Ted Kempski, Delaware (2007); Ken Donahue, Alabama, Tennessee, Memphis, Mississippi State (2008); Roland Christensen, Wisconsin-La Crosse, Winona State (2009); Bill Hickey, Notre Dame, Coast Guard, Swarthmore, Princeton (2012); Joe Kines, Jacksonville State, Clemson, Florida, Alabama, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida State, Texas A&M (2013); Woody McCorvey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi State, Clemson (2014); Mike Terwilliger, East Stroudsburg (2015); Randy Hart, Tampa, Iowa State, Purdue, Ohio State, Washington, Notre Dame, Stanford (2016); George Belu, Marshall, Denison, Miami (Ohio), Colorado, NC State, LSU, Indiana, Wake Forest, Ohio State, Arizona Cardinals, Ohio Dominican (2017); Joe Whitt, Sr., Auburn (2018); Jerry Brown, Northwestern (2019); Bill Faircloth, Wake Forest (2021) and Ken Browning, North Carolina (2022).
For more information about the AFCA, visit www.AFCA.com. For more interesting articles, check out The Insider and subscribe to our weekly email.
If you are interested in more in-depth articles and videos, please become an AFCA member. You can find out more information about membership and specific member benefits on the AFCA Membership Overview page. If you are ready to join, please fill out the AFCA Membership Application.
