Bill Blankenship was born on December 12,1956 and is an American football coach and former player.
16 Facts About Bill Blankenship
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Bill Blankenship is the current head high school football coach at Owasso High School in Owasso, OK.
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Bill Blankenship was the head coach of the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane from 2011 through 2014.
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Bill Blankenship was named to the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Bill Blankenship played for the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane beginning in 1975 and served two stints as starting quarterback, 1977 and 1979.
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Bill Blankenship served as the coach of Tulsa's Union High School for 14 years until 2005.
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On June 7,2016, it was announced that Bill Blankenship had accepted the vacant head coaching position at Fayetteville, a Class 7A program in Arkansas.
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On January 6,2017, it was announced that Bill Blankenship had accepted the vacant head coaching position at Owasso High School, a Class 6A-I program in Owasso, Oklahoma.
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In December 2023, Bill Blankenship announced his decision to retire from coaching after seven seasons with Owasso.
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In December of 2024, after a season away from Owasso High School, it was announced that Bill Blankenship will be returning as the school's head high school football coach.
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In 2005 Bill Blankenship decided that he wanted to pursue seriously his goal of coaching at the college level.
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At the time, Bill Blankenship said that he was resigning, in part, because otherwise potential employers would not believe he would be willing to leave his successful position at Union.
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Bill Blankenship spent the following year out of coaching, and then accepted Tulsa Golden Hurricane head coach Todd Graham's offer to become receivers coach at Tulsa.
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Josh Bill Blankenship played quarterback at Tulsa before transferring to Eastern Washington, where he was a second-team Division I-AA All-American.
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Bill Blankenship later played arena football, including three years as quarterback of the Tulsa Talons; after working as an assistant coach at Union and elsewhere, in December 2010 he was named head coach at Muskogee High School.
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Adam Bill Blankenship played at Nebraska and Illinois State, was an assistant coach at Union, and in 2011 joined his father's new coaching staff at Tulsa.