Dennis Franchione
Franchione at the 2015 Sun Belt Media day
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 28, 1951 Girard, Kansas |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1973–1974 | Miller HS (MO) |
| 1975 | Mulvane HS (KS) (assistant) |
| 1976–1977 | Peabody-Burns HS (KS) |
| 1978–1980 | Kansas State (assistant) |
| 1981–1982 | Southwestern (KS) |
| 1983–1984 | Tennessee Tech (OC) |
| 1985–1989 | Pittsburg State |
| 1990–1991 | Southwest Texas State |
| 1992–1997 | New Mexico |
| 1998–2000 | TCU |
| 2001–2002 | Alabama |
| 2003–2007 | Texas A&M |
| 2011–2015 | Texas State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 213–135–2 |
| Bowls | 4–3 |
| Tournaments | 5–4 (NAIA D-I playoffs) 1–1 (NCAA D-II playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 KCAC (1982) 4 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1985–1988) 1 MIAA (1989) 2 WAC (1999–2000) 1 WAC Mountain Division (1997) |
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| Awards | |
| 2x NAIA Coach of the Year (1986–1987) 2x AFCA Regional Coach of the Year (1989–1990) |
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Dennis Wayne Franchione (born March 28, 1951), also known as Coach Fran, is an American football coach. He is the former head football coach at Texas State University, a position he held from 1990 to 1991, when the school was known as Southwest Texas State University, and resumed from 2011 to 2015. Franchione has also served as the head football coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1981–1982), Pittsburg State University (1985–1989), the University of New Mexico (1992–1997), Texas Christian University (1998–2000), the University of Alabama (2001–2002), and Texas A&M University (2003–2007). In his 27 seasons as a head coach in college football, Franchione has won eight conference championships and one divisional crown
Franchione was born in Girard, Kansas. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1973 from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. Franchione and his wife, the former Kim Kraus, began dating after he took her on a tour of his alma mater, Pittsburg State, at the request of her father. They married shortly after, in 1977, while living in Peabody, Kansas. The couple have two daughters, Elizabeth Ann and Ashley Renee. Brad Franchione, his son from a previous marriage, was the head football coach at Blinn College prior to his most recent position with his father at Texas State. Brad and his wife, Rebecca, have three children.
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