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CORNERBACKS 5TH S E A S O N AT TC U N O RT H TE X A S , 19 9 6
Clay Jennings joined the TCU football staff as cornerbacks
In his first season at Houston, Jennings saw Rocky
coach in January 2008.
Schwartz earn Conference USA third-team all-league
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honors and Kenneth Fontennette be named an In his first three seasons with the Horned Frogs, TCU has
honorable-mention Freshman All-American by The
led the nation in total defense.
Sporting News.
Greg McCoy and Jason Verrett earned honorable mention
Prior to his two-year stint at Houston, Jennings spent
All-Mountain West honors in 2011, each grabbing an
two seasons (2003-04) as the defensive backs coach
interception on the year. Verrett racked up 58 tackles
at Louisiana-Lafayette, where he helped the Ragin’
during the regular season.
Cajuns to a No. 11 national ranking in pass defense. At
Jason Teague was a 2010 second-team All-Mountain West Conference selection, giving TCU six All-MWC honorees in the last four seasons. Both Rafael Priest and Nick Sanders were first-team AllMWC picks in 2009. Priest was ranked by Rivals.com as the nation’s sixth-best cornerback, while Sanders was tabbed by Sporting News as the MWC’s hardest hitter. Jennings, who has coached six current NFL defensive backs, came to the Horned Frogs after serving as the cornerbacks coach at Baylor in 2007. Jennings worked two seasons (2005-06) as safeties coach at Houston. He helped the Cougars to back-toback bowl appearances and the 2006 Conference USA championship. In 2006, Cougars’ free safety Will Gulley earned Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year honors while Brandon Brinkley was named to the league’s all-freshman squad.
Louisiana-Lafayette, Jennings tutored current NFL players C.C. Brown (Detroit Lions) and Michael Adams (Arizona Cardinals), as well as former New England Patriot Antwain Spann.
AGE:________________________38 (born Nov. 3, 1973) HOMETOWN:________________________ Waco, Texas MARRIED:_______________________________Belinda CHILDREN:______________________ Kirby and Kenzie ALMA MATER:__________________ North Texas (1996) PLAYING EXPERIENCE:
Jennings also worked two years (2001-02) as secondary coach and recruiting coordinator at Sam Houston State. He helped the Bearkats to a share of the 2001 Southland Conference championship and the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. At SHSU, Jennings coached All-American and Buck Buchanan Award finalist Keith Davis, who just completed his fifth season with the Dallas Cowboys.
1992-95______________________________ North Texas COACHING EXPERIENCE: 1996________________ North Texas (Student Assistant) 1997_______________ North Texas (Graduate Assistant) 1998______________________ Morehouse (Secondary) 1999_____________________ Morningside (Secondary) 2000________________ Southern Arkansas (Secondary) 2001-02________________________ Sam Houston State
Jennings also coached the secondary at Southern Arkansas (2000), Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa (1999) and Morehouse College in Atlanta (1998). At SAU, Jennings mentored Jordan Babineaux of the Seattle Seahawks. At Morningside, Jennings coached first-team All-American Matt Walker. A four-year letterwinner (1992-95) as a defensive lineman and special teams standout at
________________ (Secondary/Recruiting Coordinator) 2003-04_____________ Louisiana-Lafayette (Secondary) 2005-06_________________________Houston (Safeties) 2007_________________________Baylor (Cornerbacks) 2008-present___________________ TCU (Cornerbacks) BOWL GAMES 2005____________________Fort Worth Bowl (Houston) 2006_______________________Liberty Bowl (Houston)
North Texas, Jennings was a
2008________________________ Poinsettia Bowl (TCU)
member of the Mean Green’s
2009___________________________ Fiesta Bowl (TCU)
1994 Southland Conference
2010____________________________ Rose Bowl (TCU)
championship team and the
2011________________________ Poinsettia Bowl (TCU)
school’s first NCAA Division I-A squad in 1995. He began his coaching career as a student assistant (1996) and then graduate assistant (1997) at North Texas before moving on to Morehouse. Jennings is a 1992 graduate of Waco’s La Vega High School and a 1996 North Texas alumnus (bachelor’s of science in kinesiology). Jennings and his wife, Belinda, have two children: son Kirby and daughter Kenzie.
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