1. Richard Kent Austin was born on June 25,1963 and is an American college football coach and former professional player who is the quarterbacks coach for Auburn University.
36 Facts About Kent Austin
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Kent Austin played as a quarterback in the National Football League and Canadian Football League.
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Kent Austin was the head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL 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, rushing one time for zero yards, and not attempting a single pass.
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Kent Austin started the last 5 games of the 1987 season.
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When Kent Austin got injured in the 1989 West Final in Edmonton, Burgess relieved him.
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Kent Austin got the start in the Grey Cup game, and helped guide Saskatchewan to its second ever Grey Cup win.
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Kent Austin was awarded the game's Offensive Most Valuable Player after leading the Roughriders down the field to kick the game-winning field goal, and throwing for 474 yards, which was the second most yards thrown in a Grey Cup game at the time.
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In 1990, Kent Austin became Saskatchewan's undisputed starting quarterback after Burgess was traded to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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That year, Kent Austin threw a 107 yard touchdown pass to Jeff Fairholm against Winnipeg in the Labour Day Classic.
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Kent Austin led the CFL that year in passing yards, attempts, and completions.
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Kent Austin was nominated a CFL West All-Star and CFL League All-Star for the first, and only, time in his career.
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In 1991, Kent Austin missed 5 games with injury, but was still able to throw for 4,137 yards and 32 touchdowns.
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Also that year, Kent Austin tied Sam Etcheverry's CFL record for most consecutive 300-yard passing games with 9; 4 consecutive of these games were 400-yard games, a CFL record for consecutive 400-yard games.
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Kent Austin led the CFL in passing yards, attempts, and completions for the second time in his career, and passing touchdowns for the first and only time in his career.
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Kent Austin became only the third CFL quarterback to pass for 5,000 yards in a single season, and the second CFL quarterback to hit 6,000 passing yards in a single season.
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Kent Austin's 715 pass attempts were 3rd most in a single CFL season.
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Also in that game, Kent Austin threw for over 500 yards, the second consecutive game in which he threw for that yardage.
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Kent Austin finished second in team history to George Reed for career rushing touchdowns, many of which were on quarterback sneaks.
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Kent Austin was part of the team's Grey Cup win, starting the game before leaving with injury.
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Kent Austin was replaced by Danny McManus, who would lead the Lions to a win on a last-second field goal.
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Kent Austin was the second Ole Miss star to play quarterback for Toronto, the first being Eagle Day in 1967.
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Kent Austin joined the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1996, playing only one season with the team before being released on February 11,1997.
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In 1999, Kent Austin was inducted into the Saskatchewan Roughriders Plaza of Honour.
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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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In 2005, Kent Austin coordinated an offence that allowed Allen, now age 42, to, for the first time in his career, throw for 5,000 yards in a season as well as win the CFL Most Outstanding Player award.
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In December 2006, Kent Austin was hired to be the 26th Head Coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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In 2007, Saskatchewan's quarterback was Kerry Joseph, with whom Kent Austin had worked in 2003 in Ottawa; Joseph won the 2007 CFL Most Outstanding Player award.
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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.