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Head Coach,
Butch Davis
Pro Career: Butch Davis was named head coach of the Cleveland Browns on January 30, 2001, and is entering his fourth season as head coach. In 2002, Davis led the Cleveland Browns to the club's first postseason appearance since 1994 with a 9-7 record in his second year as head coach. Davis came to Cleveland from the University of Miami where Davis rebuilt the Hurricanes program. Davis returned the program back to the college football elite status as Miami defeated Florida in the 2001 Nokia Sugar Bowl, and finished second in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today rankings. Davis won two Super Bowl champi¬onships with the Dallas Cowboys from 1992 and 1993 and, at the collegiate level; he won a national championship with Miami in 1987. He was the head coach at Miami from 1995-2000, where he compiled a 51-20 record, including a 4-0 mark in bowl games. He joined Miami after six years from 1989-1994 with the Cowboys, serving as the defensive line coach for four years and the last two seasons as the Cowboys' defensive coordinator. His 1993 defense won Super Bowl XXVIII and allowed just one offensive touchdown or less in 12 of 16 games. Career record: 21-28.

Background: Davis spent five seasons from 1984-88 as the defensive line coach for Miami, including the Hurricanes' 1987 national championship team. Davis start¬ed as an assistant on Jimmy Johnson's Oklahoma State teams from 1979-1983. Davis was the head coach at Rogers High School in Tulsa, Okla., for one season in 1978 after spending time as an assis¬tant at two high schools in Oklahoma and one in Arkansas where he taught biology, anatomy, and physiology. Davis played defensive end for Arkansas (1971-74).

Personal: Butch Davis was born Paul Hilton Davis in Tahlequah, Okla., on November 17, 1951. Butch Davis earned his bachelor's degree in biology and life science from Arkansas. Davis and his wife Tammy have one son, Andrew.