Responsibility: Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
Birthday: May 20
Hometown: Marlow, Okla.
Education: Bachelor’s Degree (East Central, '86); Master’s Degree (Texas A&M-Commerce, ’03)
Family: Wife – Melissa, Daughters – Fallon and Erin, Stepson – Kelby, Stepdaughter – Bretlie
Year at West Virginia: First
Year in Coaching: 26
Playing Career
- Four-year letterwinner as a defensive back.
Coaching Career
2011: Pitt (interim head coach)
2011: Pitt (defensive coordinator/linebackers)
2006-10: Tulsa (co-defensive coordinator/linebackers)
2003-05: Tulsa (linebackers)
2002: Allen High (assistant coach)
2000: Allen High (assistant coach)
1997-99: Ardmore High (head coach)
1995-96: Allen High (assistant coach)
1994: Edmond Santa Fe High (head coach)
1992-93: Edmond Memorial High (assistant coach)
1988-91: Altus High (assistant coach)
1986: East Central (graduate assistant)
Bowl Experience
2012: BBVA Compass
2010: Hawai’i
2008: GMAC
2007: GMAC
2006: Armed Forces
2005: Liberty
2003: Humanitarian
Coaching Highlights
Pitt
- Served as the interim head coach for the BBVA Compass Bowl against SMU.
- The Panther-led defense placed five players on the All-Big East Team and had one All-American.
- In 2011, the Pitt defense was ranked No. 3 nationally in sacks (3.31), tied for No. 12 in tackles for loss (98),
No. 14 in defensive third-down efficiency (32.98), No. 21 in rushing defense (116.9), No. 35 in total defense (350.62) and No. 38 in scoring defense (22.4).
Tulsa
- In addition to coaching the linebackers, Patterson served as co-defensive coordinator his final five seasons at Tulsa.
- In 2010, he helped mold a defense that led the country in interceptions (24) and ranked third in turnovers gained (36).
- Facing the nation’s top passing offense in Hawai’i in the 2010 Hawai’i Bowl, Tulsa’s defense forced five interceptions and six total turnovers en route to a victory over the No. 24 Rainbows. The win was the Golden Hurricane’s 36th over a four-year span and marked the program’s third consecutive bowl triumph.
- Patterson tutored some of the most productive and accomplished defenders in Tulsa football history.
- His star pupils include first-team All-Conference USA performers Nick Bunting, Chris Chamberlain and Nelson Coleman. The three rank among the top 10 tacklers in school history, a list topped by Coleman who had an impressive 413 career stops.
- Bunting finished his career as one of the most decorated linebackers ever at Tulsa. He was named the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year in 2006 and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Newcomer of the Year in 2003.
- Chamberlain, who finished fifth in Tulsa history with 352 tackles, was drafted by St. Louis in 2008 and has spent the past three seasons with the Rams.
High School
- Patterson had 16 years coaching experience as a high school coach in Oklahoma and Texas.
- He spent two years (2000 and ‘02) as linebackers, defensive backs and special teams coach at Allen (Texas) High School. He also coached at Allen High School from 1995-96.
- Before that, he was the head football coach at Ardmore (Okla.) High School for three seasons (1997-99). At Ardmore, Patterson led his team to the District 5A-1 Championship in 1999, while earning district coach of the year honors.
- In 1994, Patterson was the head coach at Edmond Santa Fe (Okla.) High School. Prior to that, he served as defensive secondary coach at Edmond Memorial High School for two seasons (1992-93).
- He began his high school coaching career in 1988 at Altus (Okla.) High School, where he coached the outside linebackers and defensive backs for four years.
- He helped lead Altus to a state runner-up finish in Class 4A, while helping Edmond Memorial to a Class 6A runnerup finish in 1993.
Professional Players
Tulsa: Chris Chamberlain (LB)
All-Conference Players
Pitt: Max Gruder (2011)
Tulsa: Chris Chamberlain (2006-07), Nelson Coleman (2005-07), Nick Bunting (2003-06), Nick Graham (2005), Michael LeDet (2003-04), Jorma Bailey (2003)
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