Dick G. Bumpas (born December 19, 1949) is a retired American football coach and former player. He was an All-American

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at Arkansas and an assistant football coach at several

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programs, most notably an 11-year stint as the defensive coordinator at

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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

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win a Southwest Conference title in 1968 before defeating Georgia in the

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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

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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

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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

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- and made him one of the few men to have coached at all three

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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

in 2004, where they built the Frogs into a perennial defensive powerhouse running Patterson's 4-2-5 scheme. Bumpas' time in

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saw TCU jump from

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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 *

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- 2006 *Jerry Hughes - 2008, 2009 * Robert Henson - 2008 *Stephen Hodge - 2008 * Daryl Washington - 2009 *Rafael Priest - 2009 *Nick Sanders - 2009 *

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- 2010 * Tank Carder - 2010, 2011 *Tejay Johnson - 2010 *Tanner Brock - 2010 *

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- 2011 * Stansly Maponga - 2011, 2012 * Devonte Fields - 2012 *

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- 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:

Bowl games

Bumpas coached in 19 bowl games at 7 different programs, with his teams amassing a record of 14-5 in those games:

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.

References

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