Background
Kevin Sumlin was born in Brewton, Alabama on August 3, 1964.
Kevin Sumlin was born in Brewton, Alabama on August 3, 1964.
He later attended Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis, where he played football, basketball, and hockey. Following his prep career. Sumlin attended Purdue University and was a starting linebacker for his entire college career.
He was a member of the 1984 Peach Bowl team and finished in the Top Ten in total tackles (375) (191 solo, 184 assisted) and in the Top Twenty (191) in solo tackles.
Previously, Sumlin was the head football coach at the University of Houston from 2007 to 2011. He led the team in tackles his freshman season (1983) with 91 total tackles, (50 solo and 41 assisted). He was a teammate of players such as Jim Everett, Hall of Famer Rod Woodson, fellow linebacker Fred Strickland and long-time NFL players Mel Gray and Cris Dishman.
Sumlin served as an assistant with Washington State, Wyoming, Minnesota and Purdue (with the common denominator of all these coaching stops, except for Minnesota, being Joe Tiller).
Served as assistant head coach at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical for two years under Roman Catholic Slocum. And for five years at Oklahoma under Bob Stoops, serving the last 2 years as co-offensive coordinator.
In addition to Stoops and Slocum, he has served as an assistant under Dennis Erickson and Mike Price at Washington State and Joe Tiller at Purdue. While at Purdue he and offensive coordinator Jim Chaney aided Tiller in implementing the then-uncommonly used spread offense, and the Boilermakers, with Drew Brees as starting quarterback, broke a string of Big Ten passing records and made a surprise run to the 2001 Rose Bowl, Purdue"s first Rose Bowl in three decades.
He left for Texas Agricultural and Mechanical and served as offensive coordinator and assistant head coach for two seasons before joining the University of Oklahoma.
In his final year with the Sooners, his offense was one of the best in the country, averaging 44 points per game. In 2011, Sumlin coached Houston to a 12–0 start before losing the Conference United States of America Championship Game to the Southern Mission Golden Eagles. On December 10, 2011, Sumlin told his players that he was leaving Houston, effective immediately, in order to accept a job at another school.
KRIV in Houston and Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s Joe Schad both reported that Sumlin was to become the new coach at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical. Special teams coordinator Tony Levine coached Houston in the 2012 TicketCity Bowl.
In 2012, Sumlin named quarterback Johnny Manziel his starter. The Aggies finished the 2012 season ranked in the top 5 of both the Coaches Poll and the Associated Press Poll for the first time since 1956.
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical would also lead the Securities and Exchange Commission in total offense, total scoring offense, total rushing yds, and led the nation in third down conversion percentage. Kevin Sumlin and the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Aggies would become the first Securities and Exchange Commission team in history to amass over 7,000 yds in total offense.
On November 30, 2013, Sumlin agreed to a new 6-year contract as head coach at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical.