The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Davis wins Broyles Award
01.17.2006 | Football
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Texas offensive coordinator Greg Davis was named winner of the 2005 Broyles Award, honoring the nation's top assistant coach, by the Downtown Rotary Club of Little Rock at a luncheon on Tuesday.
"It's very humbling to be here with this group of assistant coaches," Davis said. "To win an award named after Coach Broyles and to have Wilson Matthews be a part of that, and having coached in this state, this football-crazy area, it makes it all very special. It's a credit to the Coach Brown, the entire staff and all the players, and they should all take part in this."
Also in attendance was UT co-defensive coordinator Gene Chizik, who won the award in 2004 after helping Auburn to a 13-0 record. The Longhorns now have the past two winners of the award on staff.
"I just know what an awesome feeling it is for him," Chizik said. "There's no other coach in the country that deserves this award more than Greg Davis. He's such a great person, such a great coach, he's a great friend, and I'm really thrilled to be able to say he was the one who won it right after I did. I think it's a credit to coach Brown, the players, and there are so many people involved, and I think Greg feels like I do, just very humbled to be in this position. It couldn't happen to a better guy."
The other finalists for the award included Gary Crowton of Oregon, Bud Foster of Virginia Tech, Joe Kines of Alabama, Norm Parker of Iowa and Jim Svoboda of UCLA.
In 2005, Davis, who was also named a finalist for the Broyles Award in 1999, led a National Championship Texas offense that set an NCAA record for points scored in a season with 652 and set a school record for yards with 6,657. It ranked first in the nation in scoring (50.2 ppg), second in rushing offense (274.9 ypg), and third in total offense (512.1 ypg). With Davis serving as quarterbacks coach, the Longhorns also led the nation in passing efficiency (161.0), and Vince Young was honored as the winner of both the Davey O'Brien Award and the Manning Award, which are given to the nation's top quarterback. Young also won the Maxwell Award as the nation's top player.
Their average of 50.2 points per game marks only the fifth time in NCAA history a team has finished the season averaging over 50 points per game. The other teams include 1944 Army (56.0), 1983 Nebraska (52.0), 1989 Houston (53.5) and 1995 Nebraska (52.4).
Texas reached the 40-point mark 12 times in 13 games this season, including the last 11 in a row, coming up short only at No. 4 Ohio State. No other team in the nation reached it more than nine times. UT also broke the 50-point plateau seven times, scored more than 60 points on four occasions and added an exclamation with 70 points in two and a half quarters in the Big 12 Championship.
The Broyles Award is named in honor of longtime University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles, who developed a reputation during a stellar coaching career of producing top-notch assistants. Former Broyles assistant coaches have combined to win almost 15 percent of all Super Bowl titles, four national collegiate championships, more than 40 conference titles and more than 2,000 games.
