Dick Bumpas
![]() Bumpas from 1969 "Razorback" | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1949-12-19) December 19, 1949 (age 74) |
Playing career | |
1967-1970 | Arkansas |
1974 | BC Lions (CFL) |
1974-1976 | Memphis Southmen (WFL) |
Position(s) | Defensive tackle, Defensive end, Tight end |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1977 | Arkansas (GA) |
1978 | Army (DL) |
1979-1980 | Air Force (DL) |
1981-1982 | Kansas State (DL) |
1983–1984 | Tennessee Tech (DC) |
1985–1988 | Tennessee (LB/ST) |
1989 | Arkansas (DL) |
1990–1991 | Notre Dame (DL) |
1992-1994 | Utah State (DC) |
1995–1998 | Navy (DC) |
1999–2002 | Houston (Co-DC) |
2003 | Western Michigan (DC) |
2004–2014 | TCU (DC) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1978 | |
Awards | |
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Dick G. Bumpas (born December 19, 1949) is a retired American football coach and former player. He was an All-American defensive tackle at Arkansas and an assistant football coach at several college football programs, most notably an 11-year stint as the defensive coordinator at TCU.
Early life and playing career
Bumpas grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he graduated from Southside High School in 1967 before enrolling at the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship.[1]
Playing for Coach Frank Broyles at Arkansas, he helped the Razorbacks win a Southwest Conference title in 1968 before defeating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, 1969.[2] While his junior season was remembered most for Arkansas' loss to Texas in the Game of the Century, Bumpas earned All-SWC honors and became a Consensus All-American as a senior in 1970.[3]
After graduating from Arkansas, Bumpas played professional football for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and the Memphis Southmen of the World Football League.[4]
Coaching career
Early years
Bumpas began his coaching career when Broyles hired him as a graduate assistant at Arkansas in 1977[5] The next year, he took his first full-time job coaching defensive linemen at West Point. That season began a stretch of 26 in which Bumpas coached at 11 different schools. This stretch included stints working under coaches including Fisher DeBerry, Johnny Majors and Lou Holtz - and made him one of the few men to have coached at all three service academies.[6]
TCU
During the journeyman phase of his career, Bumpas' time at Kansas State coincided with Wildcat safety Gary Patterson concluding his playing career in 1981 and beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant under head coach Jim Dickey in 1982.[7] This was the first of three times he would cross paths with Patterson as fellow assistants - along with their corresponding stints at Tennessee Tech, Utah State and Navy.[8]
Patterson hired Bumpas to be his defensive coordinator at TCU in 2004,[9] where they built the Frogs into a perennial defensive powerhouse running Patterson's 4-2-5 scheme.[10] Bumpas' time in Fort Worth saw TCU jump from Conference USA to the Mountain West to the Big 12, winning five conference titles along the way.
Under Bumpas' leadership, three Horned Frogs earned AP 1st Team All-American honors on defense:
- Jerry Hughes - 2009[11]
- Tejay Johnson - 2010
- Paul Dawson - 2014
Additionally, 22 different TCU defenders earned 1st Team All-Conference honors under Bumpas:
- Marvin Godbolt - 2004[12]
- Tommy Blake - 2005, 2006
- Chase Ortiz - 2005, 2006, 2007
- Quincy Butler - 2005[13]
- Jason Phillips - 2006, 2007
- Marvin White - 2006[14]
- Jerry Hughes - 2008, 2009
- Robert Henson - 2008
- Stephen Hodge - 2008[15]
- Daryl Washington - 2009
- Rafael Priest - 2009
- Nick Sanders - 2009[16]
- Wayne Daniels - 2010
- Tank Carder - 2010, 2011
- Tejay Johnson - 2010
- Tanner Brock - 2010[17]
- Greg McCoy - 2011
- Stansly Maponga - 2011, 2012[18]
- Devonte Fields - 2012
- Jason Verrett - 2012, 2013[19]
- Paul Dawson - 2014
- Chris Hackett - 2014[20]
Conference titles
Over the course of his coaching career, Bumpas won eight conference titles with four different programs and in five different leagues:
Year | Team | Conference | Head Coach | Overall Record | Conference Record |
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1985 | Tennessee | SEC | Johnny Majors | 9–1-2 | 5–1 |
1989 | Arkansas | SWC | Ken Hatfield | 10-2 | 7-1 |
1993 | Utah State | Big West | Charlie Weatherbie | 7–5 | 5–1 |
2005 | TCU | Mountain West | Gary Patterson | 11-1 | 8-0 |
2009 | TCU | Mountain West | Gary Patterson | 12-1 | 8-0 |
2010 | TCU | Mountain West | Gary Patterson | 13-0 | 8-0 |
2011 | TCU | Mountain West | Gary Patterson | 11-2 | 7-0 |
2014 | TCU | Big 12 | Gary Patterson | 12-1 | 8-1 |
Bowl games
Bumpas coached in 19 bowl games at 7 different programs, with his teams amassing a record of 14-5 in those games:
Retirement
Bumpas announced his retirement from coaching on February 3, 2015.[21] He was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in while still coaching at TCU in 2011[22] and into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in 2017.[23] He currently resides in Garfield, Arkansas with his wife, Gloria.
References
- ^ "Former Rebel player Bumpas turns Grizzly" (PDF). The Rebel. October 18, 2012.
- ^ "35th Annual Sugar Bowl Classic". AllStateSugarBowl.org. Archived from the original on August 6, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
- ^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
- ^ "2014 TCU Football Fact Book". Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- ^ "Bumpas to serve as honorary captain". ArkansasRazorbacks.com. September 16, 2015.
- ^ "TCU Fact Book". Dick Bumpas. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- ^ "Possible candidates to replace Bill Snyder as K-State football coach". Wichita Eagle. December 2, 2018.
- ^ "TCU's Dick Bumpas retiring". ESPN.com. February 4, 2015.
- ^ "Quotes from Gary Patterson's Media Luncheon". GoFrogs.com. August 27, 2004.
- ^ "The Key to TCU's dominant defense". Sports on Earth. November 9, 2017.
- ^ "Hughes adds to All-American honors". GoFrogs.com. December 10, 2009.
- ^ "Frogs put three on All-CUSA squad". GoFrogs.com. December 7, 2004.
- ^ "TCU sets pace on All-MWC teams". GoFrogs.com. December 5, 2005.
- ^ "Thirteen Frogs named to All-MWC teams". GoFrogs.com. December 5, 2006.
- ^ "Frogs place 18 on All-MWC teams". GoFrogs.com. December 3, 2008.
- ^ "Frogs dominate All-MWC teams". GoFrogs.com. December 1, 2009.
- ^ "Mountain West All-Conference teams". Mountain West Conference. December 1, 2018.
- ^ "Carder and McCoy highlight TCU's All-MWC selections". GoFrogs.com. December 6, 2011.
- ^ "Frogs prominent on All-Big 12 team". GoFrogs.com. December 5, 2012.
- ^ "2014 All-Big 12 Awards Announced". Big12Sports.com. December 10, 2014.
- ^ "TCU defensive coordinator Bumpas calls it a career after coaching nearly 40 years". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. February 4, 2015.
- ^ "Bumpas receives Hall of Fame Honor". GoFrogs.com. February 27, 2010.
- ^ "Bumpas Selected for SWC Hall of Fame". NWHomePage.com. August 25, 2017.
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