Tommy_West_(American_football)

Tommy West (American football)

Tommy West (American football)

American football player and coach (born 1954)


Thomas Cleveland West (born July 31, 1954) is an American football coach and former player. He was the defensive line coach at Middle Tennessee State University from 2014 to 2023. West served as head football coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1993), Clemson University (1993–1998) and the University of Memphis (2001–2009), compiling a career college football record of 84–96. West was fired as head coach at Memphis on November 9, 2009 after beginning the season 2–7.[1] West finished the season with Memphis.

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West attended Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Georgia, from which he graduated in 1972. There he was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was an All-American selection, and was also drafted in fifth round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Chicago Cubs. He is married to the former Cyndie Smith of Germantown, Tennessee, and has one son, Turner West, who is an assistant at Georgia Southern University.[2]

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Notes

  1. Ken Hatfield resigned after the regular season. West coached Clemson in the Peach Bowl. Clemson credits the 1993 regular season to Hatfield and the Peach Bowl to West.

References

  1. Tommy West fired as Memphis Tigers football coach, The Commercial Appeal, November 9, 2009
  2. "Turner West - Football Coach". Georgia Southern University Athletics. Retrieved April 12, 2024.

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