NEIL CALLAWAY

'Neil Callaway' is the current head coach of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Blazers college football team, the third coach in the program's history.
Callaway, a 1974 graduate of Central High School in Macon, Georgia, played collegiately at the University of Alabama for legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant as a lineman and linebacker. He then coached on Pat Dye's staff at East Carolina University and the University of Wyoming before following Dye to Auburn University. In twelve years with Auburn, the team won a share of four Southeastern Conference titles and Callaway coached four All-Americans.
In 1993, Callaway became offensive coordinator at the University of Houston, where the team won a Conference USA title, before returning to his alma mater as offensive line coach in 1997 and coordinator from 1998-2000. In 2001, he joined Mark Richt's staff at the University of Georgia as line coach and coordinator, where the team won three SEC division titles and two conference championships in six years there. He left Georgia in late 2006 to take the UAB position.
He was not linked to any other coaching jobs, and was a sleeper choice by UAB. Many speculate that the UA Board of Trustees prevented UAB from hiring more sought after coaches and appointed Callaway as the new head coach.
Callaway is married and has three children.

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Biography from UGA
UAB News Release
Callaway Hiring Controversy
Callaway Hiring Controversy by CBS SPORTSLINE.COM

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