Cale Gundy - Co-Offensive Coordinator/Inside Receivers - Football Coaches

Cale Gundy

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Co-Offensive Coordinator/Inside Receivers

• In his seventh season coaching Oklahoma's inside receivers in 2021 after a highly successful 16-year stint as the program's running backs coach. Has been a coaching staff member for all 14 of OU's Big 12 championships and its 2000 national title. His Sooner teams also played in three other national championship games and in four College Football Playoffs.

• Enters 2021 as OU's all-time leader in victories (266) as a player (31) and/or coach (235). Barry Switzer ranks second with 215.

• Has helped OU's offense become the nation's most potent over the last six years, ranking first in scoring (44.4 ppg), total offense (546.5), yards per play (7.7), TDs from scrimmage (439), pass efficiency rating (186.5) and yards per pass attempt (10.6).

• Part of an offensive staff that saw the Sooners lead the country in yards per play (8.0) in 2019, and rank third in total offense (537.6 ypg) and fourth in passing efficiency rating (187.0). In 2018, OU led the nation in total offense (570.3 ypg), scoring offense (48.4 ppg) and yards per play (FBS-record 8.6), and ranked second in passing efficiency rating (194.9).

• Promoted to co-offensive coordinator in 2017 and helped OU set school records in total offense (579.6 ypg; led FBS), yards per play (8.3; second all-time in FBS), passing yards per game (361.8) and completion percentage (.714; led FBS), and in leading the FBS in pass efficiency rating (202.7) and first downs (361). Coached All-American TE and Mackey Award winner Mark Andrews.

• Key part of offensive staff that saw 2016 unit rank first nationally in passing efficiency rating (mark of 193.79 set an FBS record) and pass completion percentage (.706), second in total offense (554.8 ypg) and third in scoring offense (43.9 ppg).

• Coached Sterling Shepard, a 2015 ESPN.com first-team All-American and a first-team All-Big 12 selection. Shepard caught 86 passes for 1,288 yards and 11 touchdowns on the year.

• Former OU quarterback owns a distinguished pedigree of performers who have excelled in the NFL ranks, including 2012 NFL MVP and three-time rushing champion Adrian Peterson, as well as three-time Pro Bowler DeMarco Murray, who claimed the NFL rushing crown in 2014.

• The two most prolific rushing seasons under head coach Bob Stoops came in 2013 and 2014 under Gundy’s direction. OU led the Big 12 and ranked 10th in the FBS, averaging 261.2 rushing ypg in 2014 after registering 223.9 ypg on the ground in 2013.

• Gundy’s star pupil in 2014 was true freshman RB Samaje Perine, who led the Big 12 in rushing (131.8 ypg) and set the FBS single-game rushing record with 427 yards vs. Kansas (11/22/14).

• Perine finished 2014 with 1,713 rushing yards, the second-highest total by a freshman in OU history behind only Adrian Peterson (1,925 in 2004).

• Perine averaged 6.5 yards per carry and led Big 12 non-kickers with 126 points on a league-best 21 rushing TDs in 2014.

• JUCO transfer Damien Williams earned second-team All-Big 12 honors under Gundy in 2012, while walk-on Dominique Whaley led OU in rushing in 2011 with three 100-yard outings in seven games.

• In 2010, DeMarco Murray broke Steve Owens’ 41-year-old OU record for career TDs, Joe Washington’s 35-year-old mark for all-purpose yards and OU’s single-season mark for catches by a running back (71). Murray’s 1,571 career receiving yards are also an Oklahoma RB record.

• In 2009, Chris Brown and Murray became the first OU players on the same roster to eclipse 40 career TDs.

• Produced two 1,000-yard rushers in 2008 in Murray and Brown. OU rushed for 205.5 ypg (4.8 yards per carry). The 2007 season saw three different backs eclipse the 500-yard mark, led by Allen Patrick with 1,097. Murray was a Freshman All-American.

• In 2004, Adrian Peterson set the NCAA freshman rushing record with 1,925 yards, the best single-season mark in Oklahoma history.

• Coached Quentin Griffin, who ranks as the third-leading rusher in OU history with 3,756 yards. In 2002, he gained 1,884 yards (No. 6 NCAA/134.6 ypg).

• Griffin became the Sooners’ first 1,000-yard rusher since 1998 and also finished his career with 169 receptions (most by a running back in OU history) and 1,337 yards.

• In 2000, OU backs produced 32 rushing TDs, up from 15 in 1999. First-team All-Big 12 honoree Griffin scored 16 of those, including six against Texas to set a Sooner record.

Accomplishments as a Player

• Played at OU (1990-93) and held virtually every OU single-game, single-season and career passing record prior to head coach Bob Stoops’ arrival.

• Paced the Sooners to a 31-13-2 record in his four seasons, earning All-Big Eight First Team honors as a senior.

• One of only eight OU quarterbacks to throw for more than 4,000 yards (Sam Bradford, Josh Heupel, Nate Hybl, Landry Jones, Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray and Jason White).

• Big Eight Offensive Newcomer of the Year in 1990 with marks for completions (54), attempts (109) and yards (904).