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'''Merritt James Norvell III''' (born March 28, 1963) is an American [[college football]] coach and former player. He is the head football coach at [[Colorado State University]], a position he has held since the 2022 season. Norvell served as the head football coach at the [[University of Nevada, Reno]] from 2017 to 2021. His father, [[Merritt Norvell]], was the [[athletic director]] at [[Michigan State University|Michigan State University]] from 1995 to 1998.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ebling |first=Jack |title=Winning Team Complete |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108859789/lansing-state-journal/ |newspaper=[[Lansing State Journal]] |location=[[Lansing, Michigan]] |date=May 26, 1995 |page=1C |access-date=September 3, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>
'''Merritt James Norvell III''' (born March 28, 1963) is an American [[college football]] coach and former player. He is the head football coach at [[Colorado State University]], a position he has held since the 2022 season. Norvell served as the head football coach at the [[University of Nevada, Reno]] from 2017 to 2021. His father, Deion Sanders, was the [[athletic director]] at [[Michigan State University|Michigan State University]] from 1995 to 1998.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ebling |first=Jack |title=Winning Team Complete |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108859789/lansing-state-journal/ |newspaper=[[Lansing State Journal]] |location=[[Lansing, Michigan]] |date=May 26, 1995 |page=1C |access-date=September 3, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}


==Playing career==
==Playing career==

Revision as of 00:16, 17 September 2023

Jay Norvell
Norvell in 2022 as head coach of Colorado State
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamColorado State
ConferenceMW
Record3–10
Biographical details
Born (1963-03-28) March 28, 1963 (age 61)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Playing career
1982–1985Iowa
1986Denver Broncos*
1987Chicago Bears
Position(s)Defensive back, linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1986–1987Iowa (GA)
1988Northern Iowa (WR)
1989–1994Wisconsin (OL/WR/TE)
1995–1997Iowa State (QB/WR)
1998–2001Indianapolis Colts (WR)
2002–2003Oakland Raiders (TE)
2004–2006Nebraska (OC/QB)
2007UCLA (OC/QB)
2008–2010Oklahoma (assistant OC/WR)
2011–2014Oklahoma (co-OC/WR)
2015Texas (WR)
2016Arizona State (PGC/WR)
2017–2021Nevada
2022–presentColorado State
Head coaching record
Overall36–36
Bowls2–1
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
First-team All-Big Ten (1985)

Merritt James Norvell III (born March 28, 1963) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Colorado State University, a position he has held since the 2022 season. Norvell served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada, Reno from 2017 to 2021. His father, Deion Sanders, was the athletic director at Michigan State University from 1995 to 1998.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Coaching career

Early coaching career

His coaching career began at his alma mater Iowa in 1986 when Norvell took a job as a graduate assistant. From 1988 to 2001, Norvell served as an assistant coach for multiple positions at Northern Iowa, Wisconsin, and Iowa State. Norvell briefly spent time in the NFL as an assistant coach from 2002 to 2006 with the Indianapolis Colts and Oakland Raiders before returning to college football at the University of Nebraska to take his first ever offensive coordinator job in 2004. At Nebraska, he helped guide quarterback Zac Taylor to win Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year honors and break several school passing records.

Norvell spent a season as the offensive coordinator at UCLA in 2007, and then served as the assistant offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Oklahoma from 2008 to 2010 before being promoted to co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach in 2011. Norvell remained at Oklahoma until 2015, when he was hired as the wide receivers coach at the University of Texas,[1] where he held play calling duties.[2] Norvell then spent the 2016 season as the wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator at Arizona State before landing his first head coaching job with Nevada in 2017.[3]

Nevada

In 2017, Norvell was named head coach for the Nevada football program. The team struggled during Norvell's first year, going 3–9 in 2017.[4] However, Norvell helped the team rebound the next season, with Nevada going 8–5 in 2018, including a 16–13 overtime victory in the 2018 Arizona Bowl over Arkansas State.[5] Nevada posted winning records in 2019, 2020, and 2021 as well, and Norvell finished his tenure at Nevada recording a winning record in four of his five seasons. Norvell also led Nevada quarterback Carson Strong to back-to-back Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year awards in 2020 and 2021. Norvell left Nevada to go to Colorado State.[6]

Colorado State

On December 6, 2021, Colorado State hired Norvell to be their 24th head coach.[7] Norvell's pass-heavy offensive style came as a stark contrast to previous head coach Steve Addazio's run-heavy smashmouth offense.[8]

Personal life

Norvell's father, Meritt married his mother, Cynthia, who was a model, on 4 July 1962. Norvell has one brother, Aaron. His mother died at 79 after a battle with cancer. Norvell is Catholic.[9][10]

Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Nevada Wolf Pack (Mountain West Conference) (2017–2021)
2017 Nevada 3–9 3–5 4th (West)
2018 Nevada 8–5 5–3 T–2nd (West) W Arizona
2019 Nevada 7–6 4–4 3rd (West) L Famous Idaho Potato
2020 Nevada 7–2 6–2 2nd W Famous Idaho Potato
2021 Nevada 8–4 5–3 3rd (West) Quick Lane†
Nevada: 33–26 23–17
Colorado State Rams (Mountain West Conference) (2022–present)
2022 Colorado State 3–9 3–5 5th (Mountain)
2023 Colorado State 0–1
Colorado State: 3–10 3–5
Total: 36–36

†=The team was coached by interim head coach Vai Taua for the 2021 Quick Lane Bowl as Norvell left the program prior to the game.

References

  1. ^ "Texas hires former Oklahoma co-offensive coordinator Jay Norvell". Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Texas HC Charlie Strong: Jay Norvell will take over play calling from Shawn Watson". 8 September 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  3. ^ "Arizona State hires former Texas play caller Jay Norvell". 12 February 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  4. ^ "Nevada 2017 football schedule". Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  5. ^ "2018 Arizona Bowl". Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  6. ^ "MW Announces 2021 Football All-Conference Teams and Individual Honors". Mountain West Conference. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Jay Norvell to be named CSU Rams football coach, source says". The Denver Post. December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  8. ^ "Keeler: Jay Norvell is upgrade for CSU Rams as football coach. Because he's everything Steve Addazio wasn't". The Denver Post. December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  9. ^ Murray, Chris (2019-11-20). "'HCN' -- Why Nevada's Jay Norvell has dedicated the season to his mom". Nevada Sports Net. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  10. ^ "Cynthia Norvell". Estes Ledley Funeral Home. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
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