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Jerry Gray Candidate for Memphis Job

Posted by srr50 on November 24th, 2009 under Football

The former UT All-American and All-Pro defensive back is one of two leading candidates for the Head Coaching vacancy.

Gray is currently in his fourth season as the Redskins secondary-cornerbacks Also on staff – as the defensive quality control coach – is Arthur Smith, son of the FedEx founder and CEO. Fred Smith is a prominent Memphis booster who is also a minority owner in the Redskins. His youngest son, Cannon, is a quarterback for the Tiger football team. He is sitting out this year after transferring from Miami.

Larry Porter, a former Memphis running back is also in contention. He is the running backs coach/chief recruiter for Les Miles at LSU. Rivals has twice named him recruiter of the year.

Gray,a member of the University of Texas’s All-Time Team, was a two-time consensus All-America and two-time Southwest Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a safety at Texas in 1983 and ’84 and was a first-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Rams in 1985.

Gray spent a couple of years in the mid-90’s as the defensive backs coach at SMU.

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  1. So you’re saying he’s not going to be our next defensive coordinator?

  2. espn.com is reporting that he has gotten the job but memphis is waiting until after they have played their last game to make an announcement.

    http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4687627

  3. Redskins Park is a wonderful place to be right now.

  4. My mom taught him in 2nd or 3rd grade in Lubbock. She should have failed the traitor.

  5. Is he a traitor because he went to Texas or a traitor because you are a Cowboys fan?

  6. magnusbleuveigner said:

    November 25th, 2009 at 7:28 am

    Man fuck this. Doesn’t Porter recruit Houston? Get him the hell out of here.

  7. I guess both. She said he was a good kid.

  8. Switzer wanted Gray to run the Wishbone for OU, but even in HS Jerry understood that his future was as a DB.

  9. Doesn’t sound like that good a situation. Memphis seems like a coaching graveyard.

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