Richard Kent Austin was born on June 25,1963 and is an American gridiron football coach and former player, who is currently a senior analyst under head coach Hugh Freeze at Auburn.
19 Facts About Kent Austin
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Kent Austin was the head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League in 2007 and CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2013 to 2017 and the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia from 2019 to 2022.
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Kent Austin was an Academic All-American in each of his four college seasons and is a member of the University of Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.
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Kent Austin played a single season in the NFL as the team's third-string quarterback, attempting a single pass.
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On November 26,1989 in Toronto, Kent Austin was at the helm of the Roughriders when they won the 1989 Grey Cup versus the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, winning the MVP trophy for his 474 yards passing in the game.
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One of the Top 10 quarterbacks in CFL history, with 36,030 career passing yards on 4,700 pass attempts, having completed 2709 passes, Kent Austin is a Roughriders legend for leading the team to its second league championship.
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Kent Austin threw 198 touchdown passes and 191 interceptions in his 10 CFL seasons with four teams.
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Kent Austin started at quarterback for the Roughriders, British Columbia Lions, and Toronto Argonauts, as well as serving as a backup for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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Kent Austin is one of only four CFL quarterbacks to pass for more than 6,000 yards in a single season.
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Kent Austin won his second Grey Cup in 1994 with the British Columbia Lions, starting the 82nd Grey Cup but being replaced at halftime by Danny McManus due to an injury.
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In 2003, Kent Austin entered coaching as the quarterbacks coach of the Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League.
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Kent Austin was fired in the 2006 season and later hired as Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach for the 2007 season.
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In doing so, Kent Austin became the first head coach to win a professional football championship for the same team with which he won the championship as a quarterback.
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Kent Austin did so in his first year as head coach, and at the same stadium where he won the cup as a player, 18 years earlier.
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On January 16,2008, Kent Austin accepted the job as Offensive coordinator at the University of Mississippi, his alma mater, to serve under head coach Houston Nutt.
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In 2008 Kent Austin's offense ranked 28th nationally scoring 32 points a game up from 20 points a game in 2007.
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On January 26,2010 Kent Austin accepted the head coaching job at Cornell University replacing Jim Knowles who left Cornell to become the defensive coordinator for David Cutcliffe at Duke University.
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On December 17,2012, Kent Austin signed on as the head coach, general manager and Vice President of Football Operations of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL.
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Kent Austin led the Tiger-Cats to consecutive Grey Cup appearances in his first two years as head coach.