Art Briles spent 13 seasons as a college football head coach and put together a respectable 9-65 record during his time at Houston and Baylor.
As it turns out, Briles admitted he almost took the Texas Longhorns job after the 2013 season, but he revealed what made him change his mind.
“I mean I was there,” Briles said, via Brett McMurphy of On3. “If we’d won our bowl game, I would have left Baylor 100%. It was done for me because I’m a (state of) Texas guy and (my son) Kendal played there. So it made sense.”
That 2014 Fiesta Bowl is a memorable one where No. 15 UCF stunned No. 6 Baylor, 52-42. Blake Bortles threw three touchdowns and ran for another for UCF, and Bryce Petty had 356 yards with five total touchdowns for Baylor.
Just a few days after the Fiesta Bowl, Texas decided to name Charlie Strong as the head coach, so the timeline fits with what Art Briles said.
However, as Briles said, that loss made him change his mind, and he stayed another two seasons at Baylor, going 11-2 and 10-3 before being fired in May 2016.
Briles has bounced around since, spending a season in Italy with Guelfi Firenze, then two seasons at Mount Vernon High School in Texas and currently serving as a head coach at Eastern New Mexico University, a Division II program.
