African American Coaches at the University of Arkansas

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For the past 30 plus years, the Department of Men’s Athletics has maintained an impressive roster of black coaches and assistant coaches in basketball, football, and track.

Basketball:

First African-American assistant coach: Bill Brown (1981-1985)

Andy Stoglin (1986-1988)

Mike Anderson (1986 as volunteer assistant coach), (1987-2000 as assistant coach), (2001-2002 as assistant head coach)

Nolan Richardson III (1991-1992 as volunteer assistant coach), (1993-1999 as assistant coach)

Ernie Murry (1992 as student assistant)

Byron Boudreaux (2003)

Oronde Taliaferro (2003-Present)

Ronny Thompson (2004-2006)

Nolan Richardson (1986-2002 head coach)

Stan Heath (2003-present head coach)

Glenn Cyprien (2006 assistant coach)

Football:

First African American assistant coach: Frank Falks (defensive ends, 1973-1976)

John Mitchell (defensive ends, 1977-1982)

Harvey Hampton (part-time assistant coach, 1979-1980), (defensive ends, 1983)

Richard Richardson (student assistant coach, 1983)

George Stewart (student assistant coach, 1983)

Larry Brinson (running backs, 1984-1989)

Richard Wilson (wide receivers, 1989)

Fitz Hill (graduate assistant coach, 1989-1990), (volunteer assistant coach, 1991), (secondary and linebackers, 1992), (wide receivers, 1993-1999), (assistant head coach/wide receivers, 2000)

Ken Rucker (running backs, 1990-1992)

Andre Haley (graduate assistant coach, 1990)

Theo Young (graduate assistant coach, 1990-1991)

Tommie Robinson (graduate assistant coach, 1991)

David Mitchell (running backs, 1994-1996)

Dennis Winston (outside linebackers, 1997)

Clifton Ealy (bandits/rovers, 1998-1999), (tight ends, 2003-2005)

Chris Vaughn (graduate assistant coach, 1999), (bandits/rovers, 2000), (outside linebackers, 2001), (outside linebackers & strong safeties, 2002-2003), (outside linebackers, 2004), (safeties, 2005)

Maurice Pollard (graduate assistant coach, 2000)

George Pugh (receivers, 2001), (tight ends, 2002)

Kacy Rodgers (defensive line, 2002)

Tracy Rocker (defensive line, 2003-present)

Monte Henderson (graduate assistant coach, 2003-2004)

Alex Wood (quarterbacks, 2005)

Track:

First African American assistant coach: Shifton Baker (1978)

Doc King (graduate assistant coach, 1980-1982)

Paul Jones (graduate assistant coach, 1983)

Stanley Redwine (graduate assistant coach, 1984-1985), (assistant coach, 1986-1994)

Mike Conley (assistant coach, 1986-1993),

Richard Cooper (volunteer assistant coach, 1990)

James Karanu (volunteer assistant coach, 2002)