Dick Bumpas

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Dick Bumpas
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Bumpas from 1969 "Razorback"
Biographical details
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)
1989Arkansas (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

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.

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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:

Additionally, 22 different TCU defenders earned 1st Team All-Conference honors under Bumpas:

Conference titles

Over the course of his coaching career, Bumpas won eight conference titles with four different programs and in five different leagues:

YearTeamConferenceHead CoachOverall RecordConference Record
1985 Tennessee SEC Johnny Majors 9–1-25–1
1989 Arkansas SWC Ken Hatfield 10-27-1
1993 Utah State Big West Charlie Weatherbie 7–55–1
2005 TCU Mountain West Gary Patterson 11-18-0
2009 TCUMountain WestGary Patterson12-18-0
2010 TCUMountain WestGary Patterson13-08-0
2011 TCUMountain WestGary Patterson11-27-0
2014 TCU Big 12 Gary Patterson12-18-1

Bowl games

Bumpas coached in 19 bowl games at 7 different programs, with his teams amassing a record of 14-5 in those games:

SeasonTeamBowlOpponentResultScoreHead coach
1977 Arkansas Orange Bowl Oklahoma Win31–6 Lou Holtz
1982 Kansas State Independence Bowl Wisconsin Loss14–3 Jim Dickey
1985 Tennessee Sugar Bowl Miami Win35–7 Johnny Majors
1986 Tennessee Liberty Bowl Minnesota Win21–14Johnny Majors
1987 Tennessee Peach Bowl Indiana Win27–22Johnny Majors
1989 Arkansas Cotton Bowl Tennessee Loss31-27 Ken Hatfield
1990 Notre Dame Orange Bowl Colorado Loss10-9Lou Holtz
1991 Notre Dame Sugar Bowl Florida Win39-28Lou Holtz
1991 Utah State Las Vegas Bowl Ball State Win42-33 Charlie Weatherbie
1996 Navy Aloha Bowl Ball State Win43-38Charlie Weatherbie
2005 TCU Houston Bowl Iowa State Win27-24 Gary Patterson
2006 TCU Poinsettia Bowl Northern Illinois Win37-7Gary Patterson
2007 TCU Texas Bowl Houston Win20-13Gary Patterson
2008 TCU Poinsettia Bowl Broncos Win17-16Gary Patterson
2009 TCU Fiesta Bowl Broncos Loss17-10Gary Patterson
2010 TCU Rose Bowl Wisconsin Win21-19Gary Patterson
2011 TCU Poinsettia Bowl Louisiana Tech Win31-24Gary Patterson
2012 TCU Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl Michigan State Loss17-16Gary Patterson
2014 TCU Peach Bowl Ole Miss Win42-3Gary Patterson

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.

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