Jay Norvell - Assistant Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers - First Season

Coaching Accomplishments

• In 2008 receiving corps hauled in 49 touchdown passes. Juaquin Iglesisas led all receivers with 1,092 yards and three others eclipsed the 500-yard mark. OU receivers accounted for 4,635 yards and averaged 356.5 yards per game and 14.3 yards per catch.
• Norvell has spent his last 21 years as a coach with the Iowa, Northern Iowa, Wisconsin, Iowa State, Indianapolis Colts, Oakland Raiders, Nebraska and most rececently was the Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach for UCLA.
• As UCLA's offensive coordinator, Norvell experienced some early success, but then hard times set in as he had to go through 4 quarterbacks in 2007. Despite having to use a walk-on freshman as the lead signal caller, UCLA beat two Top 10 teams and participated in the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl.
• In 2006, Nebraska was one of just two schools to rank in the top 25 in rushing offense, passing offense, total offense and scoring offense. The Cornhuskers ranked 23rd nationally in passing, averaging 244.1 yards per game; 23rd in rushing, averaging 170.5
  
  
  yards on the ground; 14th in total offense, averaging 414.6 yards per game; and 17th in scoring, averaging 30.6 points per game.
• In 2006, senior quarterback Zac Taylor earned Big 12 Conference Offensive Player of the Year honors. He set school records with 3,197 passing yards and 26 touchdowns while completing 233 of 391 passes to lead the Cornhuskers to a 9-5 record and a Big 12 North title. He also set a school total offense record with 3,165 yards and ranked 20th nationally in passing efficiency.
• In 2005, Taylor, a junior college transfer, broke the Nebraska single-game records for passing yards (431), completions (36), attempts (55) and total offense (433), as well as single-season Husker marks for completions (237) and attempts (430).
• During his first campaign in Lincoln (2004), Norvell, 44, helped the Husker quarterbacks post the fifth 2,000-plus yard passing season in program history. Nebraska's 186.9 passing yards per game in 2004 were its highest in nearly three decades, since averaging 188.0 per game in 1976.
• In 2002, the Raiders featured the most prolific offense in the National Football League, averaging nearly 390 total offense yards per game. Norvell played a key role in designing the Raiders' passing attack that averaged 279.7 yards per contest. Oakland culminated the season with two explosive offensive efforts in the playoffs, defeating the New York Jets 30-10, before gaining a 41-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship Game.
• From 1998 through 2001, he served as wide receivers coach for the Indianapolis Colts, working with the passing game and tutoring All-Pro receiver Marvin Harrison. In Norvell's final season with the Colts, Harrison had 109 catches for 1,524 yards and 15 touchdowns.
• In 2002, Harrison became the only player in league history to have four consecutive 100-catch seasons. While he was coached by Norvell, Harrison had 385 receptions for 5,376 yards and 48 touchdowns.
• Under Norvell, the ISU passing attack improved by nearly 100 yards per game in 1997, when wideout Ty Watley led the Big 12 with 827 receiving yards.

Accomplishments as a Player

• All-Big Ten defensive back in 1985, leading the league with seven interceptions, and helped Iowa to a league title and a Rose Bowl appearance.
• Norvell was associated with five bowl teams, including two Rose Bowl squads (1981, 1985 versus UCLA), a pair of Big Ten championship teams and a team that spent five weeks ranked No. 1 in 1985.
• Played one season as a member of the Chicago Bears in 1987.

Prominent Pupils

• Zac Taylor, (Nebraska)
  
• Doug Jolley, Raiders
  
• Jerome Pathon, Colts
  
• Marvin Harrison, Colts
  
• Reggie Wayne, Colts
  
• Sage Rosenfels (Iowa State), Texans
  
• Todd Bandhauer (Iowa State)
  
• Teyo Johnson, Raiders
  
• Roland Williams, Raiders
  
• Todd Doxzon (Iowa State)
  
• Lee DeRamus (Wisconsin), Saints
  
• J.C. Dawkins (Wisconsin)
• Donald Hayes (Wisconsin), Panthers
  
• Tony Simmons (Wisconsin), Patriots
  
• John Hall (Wisconsin), Jets
  
• Troy Vincent (Wisconsin), Dolphins
  
• Kenny Shedd (Northern Iowa), Raiders
  

Norvell and his wife, Kim, both natives of Wisconsin, have a son, Jaden.