1. Mark John Whipple was born on April 1,1957 and is an American football coach, who most recently served as offensive coordinator at Nebraska in 2022.
20 Facts About Mark Whipple
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Mark Whipple was the quarterbacks coach for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League in 2011 and 2012.
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Mark Whipple previously coached in the NFL, working as a quarterback coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2004 to 2006 and as an offensive assistant coach with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2007 and 2008.
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On January 14,2014, Mark Whipple returned to UMass as head coach.
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Mark Whipple was born in Tarrytown, New York before moving to Phoenix, Arizona at the age of nine.
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Mark Whipple is a graduate of Camelback High School, where he was an All-State performer in both football and baseball.
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Mark Whipple was named the Arizona Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1975.
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Mark Whipple went on to play football at Brown University, where he was a 1979 graduate with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Mark Whipple was a member of the Bears' 1976 Ivy League championship team, the first Ivy football championship in school history.
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Mark Whipple was inducted into the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Mark Whipple began his coaching career as an assistant coach at St Lawrence University in 1980, before serving as the offensive coordinator at Union College for next two seasons.
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In 1984, Mark Whipple was hired as an assistant coach at his alma mater where he worked with the wide receivers.
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Mark Whipple served as the offensive coordinator at the University of New Hampshire for two years before receiving his first head coaching opportunity, as the new head coach of the University of New Haven Chargers in 1988.
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On January 25,2007, Mark Whipple was let go by new Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and replaced with Ken Anderson.
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The next day, Mark Whipple was hired by the Philadelphia Eagles.
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On January 7,2009, Mark Whipple was named the offensive coordinator at Miami.
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Mark Whipple was fired along with head coach Randy Shannon, following the end of the season loss to South Florida on November 27,2010.
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Mark Whipple was reported to be the leading candidate for the Connecticut Huskies head football coach, an opening created when Randy Edsall left to replace Ralph Friedgen as the head coach at the University of Maryland, College Park following the 2010 season.
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Mark Whipple signed a contract with the Cleveland Browns on January 30,2011, to be their quarterback coach.
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Mark Whipple was fired along with the rest of the Browns coach staff at the end of the 2012 season.