jon gruden was the head coach of the raiders.
jon gruden was the head coach of the raiders.
who is the head coach of the raiders?
jon gruden
raiders' owner al davis hired the 31 year-old kiffin on january 23, 2007, making him the youngest head coach in oakland raiders history, and the youngest head coach in the nfl's "modern era" (since 1946), and signed kiffin to a two-year contract worth about $4 million with a team option for 2009. pro football hall of fame coach john madden was 32 when he was elevated to the head post by davis in 1969. davis had been known to select young, up-and-coming coaches in their thirties; those hires who fared well include john madden, mike shanahan, and jon gruden. all have won super bowls, though madden is the only one of the three to win a championship with the raiders. age 31 at the time of his hiring by the raiders (32 when he coached his first game), kiffin became the youngest head coach in modern nfl history; he also surpassed the new york jets' eric mangini and the pittsburgh steelers' mike tomlin as the youngest head coach since the afl–nfl merger in 1970.
lane kiffin
in 1957, texas tech was admitted to the southwest conference (swc), in which it experienced similar success as it had in the border conference. in the regular season, the red raiders won four conference championships and three conference co-championships. at the end of the 1976 regular season, the swc began an annual conference tournament known as the swc classic. texas tech won five swc classic titles in their six appearances in the conference tournament championship game; three under gerald myers and two under james dickey. the university remained in the swc until the conference ceased operations in 1996, when dickey's 1995–96 team ended the season ranked eighth in both the associated press poll and coaches' poll and won the conference's final regular season and swc classic titles. following the dissolution of the swc, the university became a charter member in the south division of the big 12 conference. since joining the big 12 conference, the red raiders did not receive a bid to postseason play until 2002, when hall of fame coach bob knight was hired. during knight's six-year tenure, texas tech received five postseason bids, participating in four ncaa tournaments and one national invitation tournament (nit). the red raiders won the third place playoff in the 2003 nit tournament, the farthest a red raiders men's basketball team has advanced in postseason play. during the 2007–08 season, bob knight resigned as head coach and his son, then assistant head coach, pat knight became texas tech's 13th head coach. in the 2009-10 season, pat knight led the red raiders to the (nit) where they were defeated in the quarterfinals. after failing to make the ncaa tournament, and compiling a 16-42 big 12 conference record over his three and a half seasons as head coach, texas tech terminated pat knight's position has head coach. on march 20, 2011, texas tech hired billy clyde gillispie, former head coach of the kentucky wildcats, texas a&m aggies, and utep miners, as the 14th head coach of the texas tech men's basketball program.
list of texas tech red raiders head basketball coaches