Dick Bumpas

Dick G. Bumpas (born December 19, 1949) is a retired American football coach and former player. He was an All-American defensive tackle at Arkansas and an assistant football coach at several college football programs, most notably an 11-year stint as the defensive coordinator at TCU.

Early life and playing career Bumpas grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he graduated from Southside High School in 1967 before enrolling at the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship.

Playing for Coach Frank Broyles at Arkansas, he helped the Razorbacks win a Southwest Conference title in 1968 before defeating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, 1969. While his junior season was remembered most for Arkansas' loss to Texas in the Game of the Century, Bumpas earned All-SWC honors and became a Consensus All-American as a senior in 1970.

After graduating from Arkansas, Bumpas played professional football for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and the Memphis Southmen of the World Football League.

Coaching career Early years Bumpas began his coaching career when Broyles hired him as a graduate assistant at Arkansas in 1977 The next year, he took his first full-time job coaching defensive linemen at West Point. That season began a stretch of 26 in which Bumpas coached at 11 different schools. This stretch included stints working under coaches including Fisher DeBerry, Johnny Majors and Lou Holtz - and made him one of the few men to have coached at all three service academies.

TCU During the journeyman phase of his career, Bumpas' time at Kansas State coincided with Wildcat safety Gary Patterson concluding his playing career in 1981 and beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant under head coach Jim Dickey in 1982. This was the first of three times he would cross paths with Patterson as fellow assistants - along with their corresponding stints at Tennessee Tech, Utah State and Navy.

Patterson hired Bumpas to be his defensive coordinator at TCU in 2004, where they built the Frogs into a perennial defensive powerhouse running Patterson's 4-2-5 scheme. Bumpas' time in Fort Worth saw TCU jump from Conference USA to the Mountain West to the Big 12, winning five conference titles along the way.

Under Bumpas' leadership, three Horned Frogs earned AP 1st Team All-American honors on defense: Jerry Hughes - 2009 Tejay Johnson - 2010 Paul Dawson - 2014

Additionally, 22 different TCU defenders earned 1st Team All-Conference honors under Bumpas: Marvin Godbolt - 2004 Tommy Blake - 2005, 2006 Chase Ortiz - 2005, 2006, 2007 Quincy Butler - 2005 Jason Phillips - 2006, 2007 Marvin White - 2006 Jerry Hughes - 2008, 2009 Robert Henson - 2008 Stephen Hodge - 2008 Daryl Washington - 2009 Rafael Priest - 2009 Nick Sanders - 2009 Wayne Daniels - 2010 Tank Carder - 2010, 2011 Tejay Johnson - 2010 Tanner Brock - 2010 Greg McCoy - 2011 Stansly Maponga - 2011, 2012 Devonte Fields - 2012 Jason Verrett - 2012, 2013 Paul Dawson - 2014 Chris Hackett - 2014

Conference titles Over the course of his coaching career, Bumpas won eight conference titles with four different programs and in five different leagues: 1985 Tennessee SEC Johnny Majors 9–1-2 5–1 1989 Arkansas SWC Ken Hatfield 10-2 7-1 1993 Utah State Big West Charlie Weatherbie 7–5 5–1 2005 TCU Mountain West Gary Patterson 11-1 8-0 2009 TCU Mountain West Gary Patterson 12-1 8-0 2010 TCU Mountain West Gary Patterson 13-0 8-0 2011 TCU Mountain West Gary Patterson 11-2 7-0 2014 TCU Big 12 Gary Patterson 12-1 8-1

Bowl games Bumpas coached in 19 bowl games at 7 different programs, with his teams amassing a record of 14-5 in those games: 1977 Arkansas Orange Bowl Oklahoma Win 31–6 Lou Holtz 1982 Kansas State Independence Bowl Wisconsin Loss 14–3 Jim Dickey 1985 Tennessee Sugar Bowl Miami Win 35–7 Johnny Majors 1986 Tennessee Liberty Bowl Minnesota Win 21–14 Johnny Majors 1987 Tennessee Peach Bowl Indiana Win 27–22 Johnny Majors 1989 Arkansas Cotton Bowl Tennessee Loss 31-27 Ken Hatfield 1990 Notre Dame Orange Bowl Colorado Loss 10-9 Lou Holtz 1991 Notre Dame Sugar Bowl Florida Win 39-28 Lou Holtz 1991 Utah State Las Vegas Bowl Ball State Win 42-33 Charlie Weatherbie 1996 Navy Aloha Bowl Ball State Win 43-38 Charlie Weatherbie 2005 TCU Houston Bowl Iowa State Win 27-24 Gary Patterson 2006 TCU Poinsettia Bowl Northern Illinois Win 37-7 Gary Patterson 2007 TCU Texas Bowl Houston Win 20-13 Gary Patterson 2008 TCU Poinsettia Bowl Broncos Win 17-16 Gary Patterson 2009 TCU Fiesta Bowl Broncos Loss 17-10 Gary Patterson 2010 TCU Rose Bowl Wisconsin Win 21-19 Gary Patterson 2011 TCU Poinsettia Bowl Louisiana Tech Win 31-24 Gary Patterson 2012 TCU Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl Michigan State Loss 17-16 Gary Patterson 2014 TCU Peach Bowl Ole Miss Win 42-3 Gary Patterson

Retirement Bumpas announced his retirement from coaching on February 3, 2015. He was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in while still coaching at TCU in 2011 and into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in 2017. He currently resides in Garfield, Arkansas with his wife, Gloria.