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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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9 Responses

  1. HenryJames said:

    November 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

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

  2. Ronald said:

    November 24th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    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. Sugarpants said:

    November 24th, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    Redskins Park is a wonderful place to be right now.

  4. dedfischer said:

    November 25th, 2009 at 6:24 am

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

  5. t1climb1 said:

    November 25th, 2009 at 6:54 am

    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. dedfischer said:

    November 25th, 2009 at 7:41 am

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

  8. srr50 said:

    November 25th, 2009 at 8:01 am

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

  9. j.r.69 said:

    November 25th, 2009 at 8:14 am

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

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