10 Facts About Watson Brown

1. Lester Watson Brown was born on April 19, 1950 and is a retired American football coach and former player.

2. Watson Brown was most recently the head football coach at Tennessee Technological University, a position he held from 2007 to 2015.

3. Watson Brown was the athletic director at Rice from 1984 to 1985 and at UAB from 2002 to 2005.

4. Watson Brown is the older brother of Mack Brown, the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

5. Watson Brown was recruited to play basketball and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team as a shortstop.

6. Watson Brown chose to stay in state and played as a quarterback at Vanderbilt University from 1969 to 1972.

7. In 1984, Watson Brown was named head football coach and athletic director at Rice University.

8. In 1995, Watson Brown was hired by the University of Alabama at Birmingham to lead the fledgling program as it prepared to move from NCAA Division I-AA to Division I-A.

9. Watson Brown resigned from UAB to take over the head coaching responsibilities at Tennessee Technological University on December 9, 2006.

10. On December 2, 2015, Watson Brown announced his retirement as coach at Tennessee Tech.