Michael Bruce Price was born on April 6,1946 and is a former American football coach.
21 Facts About Mike Price
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Mike Price was the head coach at Weber State College from 1981 to 1988, Washington State University from 1989 to 2002, and the University of Texas at El Paso from 2004 to 2012.
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Mike Price returned to UTEP as interim head coach for the final seven games of the 2017 season.
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Mike Price was hired at the University of Alabama in December 2002, but was fired before coaching a game in 2003.
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Mike Price was the son of Walt Price, the longtime head football coach at Everett Junior College.
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At Everett High School, Mike Price was a teammate of the son of Pinky Erickson, the head coach at cross-town rival Cascade High.
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Mike Price went on to play at Everett Junior College, Washington State, and finally at Puget Sound, where he co-captained the football team and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
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Mike Price met his wife, the former Joyce Taylor, in kindergarten in the early 1950s.
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Eric Mike Price was their first child then Aaron Mike Price, followed by their last kid Angela Fry.
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Mike Price started his coaching career in 1969 as a graduate assistant for two seasons at Washington State, then was the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, UPS, for three.
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Mike Price returned to WSU for four seasons in 1974 as the running backs coach, and in his first months on staff landed what would be one of the greatest recruits in school history, quarterback Jack Thompson out of Evergreen High in Seattle.
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Mike Price successfully recruited future baseball hall-of-famer Ryne Sandberg to play quarterback for the Cougars but Sandberg chose to sign a contract out of high school with the Philadelphia Phillies.
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In March 1989, Mike Price was hired by WSU Athletic Director Jim Livengood to be head coach of the Washington State team.
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Mike Price was chosen over former Washington assistant coach Ray Dorr.
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Five years earlier in 1997, Mike Price was named National Coach of the Year, as the Cougars returned to the Rose Bowl after more than sixty years.
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Mike Price, who guided WSU to the 2003 Rose Bowl, calls the 1998 Rose Bowl his greatest coaching achievement.
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Mike Price's original contract in 1989 was a four-year deal at $75,000 per year with unspecified television and radio revenues.
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Mike Price was a finalist for Eddie Robinson Award and the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award for coach of the year.
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Mike Price's starting salary at UTEP in 2004 was $225,000 plus incentives.
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Days before the final game of the 2012 season, Mike Price announced his retirement.
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Mike Price returned as interim coach midway through the 2017 season following the departure of Sean Kugler, who had resigned after the fifth game; UTEP went winless for the season.