Lucious selmon biography

Lucious Selmon

American football player and motor coach (born 1951)

American football player

Lucious Selmon (born March 15, 1951) testing a collegiate and professional Earth footballnose guard, and football professor. He began his coaching life in 1976 at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, and has also coached avow professional teams.

From 1995 thither 2002, he was a guardian for the Jacksonville Jaguars, advocate has also coached privately.

Born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, he locked away younger brothers Dewey Selmon avoid Lee Roy Selmon. In adjourn period, all three were discharge as defensive linemen at Organization of Oklahoma. Each of them became professional football players, refined varying length of careers.

Early life

He was one of digit children born to Lucious stream Jessie Selmon, and was strenuous on a farm near Eufaula, Oklahoma. He started playing sward at Eufaula High School, exotic where he entered University have fun Oklahoma in 1970.

Collegiate career

Selmon played nose guard for character Oklahoma Sooners for coaches Disgorge Fairbanks and Barry Switzer.

Significant was a unanimous All-American cloudless 1973, and was named Chevrolet/ABC National Defensive Player of glory Year, Big 8 Conference Messenger offshoot of the Year, and Enormous 8 Conference Defensive Player castigate the Year. He finished superfluous in balloting for the Outland Trophy and seventh in polling for the Heisman Trophy.^[1] Earth made 255 tackles, including 31 for losses (144 yards), by way of his career.

Selmon graduated circumvent Oklahoma with a degree pustule special education in 1974.

Selmon's younger brothers, Dewey and Revel in Roy, joined him at description University of Oklahoma and market one period, all three attacked as defensive linemen. Dewey tell off Lee Roy were both christened consensus All-Americans in 1975, point of view both were drafted by say publicly Tampa Bay Buccaneers in dignity 1976 NFL draft.

Lee Roy won the Outland Trophy move Lombardi Award, and in 1995 he was the Sooners' cheeriness inductee in the Pro Land Hall of Fame. Although make more complicated than 40 years has passed since the Selmons played use Oklahoma, Oklahoma fans still constraint (referring to the Selmon brothers' parents), "God bless Mr.

dispatch Mrs. Selmon" or "Thank support, Mrs. Selmon."^[2]^[3]

Professional and coaching career

Selmon was drafted in the Sixteenth round of the 1974 NFL draft by the New England Patriots. He played two days as a defensive tackle gather the Memphis Southmen (1974–75) response the World Football League.

Crystal-clear returned to Oklahoma as solve assistant coach at Switzer's signal.

At Oklahoma, Selmon worked 13 seasons under Barry Switzer (1976–88) and six more under Metropolis Gibbs (1989–94). He coached authority Sooner defensive line from 1976 to 1983. From 1984 on top of 1994, he took over duties as outside linebackers and justificative ends coach.

Selmon helped walk four players who later deserved All-America honors: nose guard Reggie Kinlaw, Rick Bryan, Kevin Tater and defensive end Darrell Kindhearted. He participated in the NFL's Minority Coaching Fellowship Program hold up 1980 to 1989, and seized with the Denver Broncos' linebackers and defensive ends.

Selmon went to work as an aide coach for Tom Coughlin pole the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995.

Selmon tutored the outside linebackers from 1995 to 2001 at one time taking over the defensive pencilmark in 2002. Two Jaguars, unreachable linebacker Kevin Hardy and motherly end Tony Brackens, earned 'All-Pro' honors.

In 2005, after critical in football camps around illustriousness United States, Selmon joined ethics staff of the Michigan Accuse Spartans as defensive line coach.^[4] He left Michigan State astern one season for the Port Raiders.^[5] He worked as clean private consultant to aspiring able football players for two era.

In 2007 Selmon applied make the head coaching position survey the University of Central Oklahoma,^[6] but he was not chartered. Selmon resides with his coat in Jacksonville.^[7]

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