Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | UTSA |
Conference | C-USA |
Record | 6–7 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
November 5, 1973
Playing career | |
1993 | Geneva |
1994–1996 | Nicholls State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1996 | Nicholls State (SA) |
1997–1999 | Karr (LA) HS (assistant) |
2000–2003 | O.P. Walker (LA) HS |
2005–2007 | Ole Miss (RB/ST) |
2008 | Southern Miss (RB/RC) |
2009 | Tennessee (WR) |
2010–2015 | LSU (AHC/RB/RC) |
2016–present | UTSA |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 6–7 (college) |
Bowls | 0–1 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
Rivals.com National Recruiter of Year (2011) NFL.com Top Recruiter in College Football (2014) Scout.com SEC Recruiter of the Year (2015) |
Frank Wilson III (born November 5, 1973) is an American football coach who is currently the head coach of the UTSA Roadrunners program that represents the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Wilson played college football at Nicholls State University where he was named honorable mention all-conference as a running back his sophomore year. He was also named preseason all-conference as a defensive back his junior year and as a running back his senior year.
Prior to Nicholls State, he played his freshman year at Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, where he was named NAIA Division II honorable mention All-American. Wilson graduated from St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Wilson was head football coach at O. Perry Walker High School in New Orleans, Louisiana from 2001 to 2003. While at O. Perry Walker, Wilson led the Chargers to the 2002 Class 4A state finals. He was honored by the NFL as the 2002 Coach of the Year for the state of Louisiana and was voted as the Louisiana Class 4A Coach of the Year by his fellow coaches. Wilson also was a 2002 Nike National Coach of the Year finalist. During his three years at O. Perry Walker, Wilson had 22 players sign Division I scholarships, including 11 in 2002 to rank as the nation’s largest class of Division I signees by any one high school. He also spent three years as an assistant coach at Edna Karr High Schoolm from 1997 to 2000.
Wilson served as Director of Athletics for the New Orleans Public School System in 2004.
From 2005 to 2007, Wilson was running backs coach at Ole Miss under head coach Ed Orgeron and was a primary character in the book "Meat Market" by Bruce Feldman, which followed Ole Miss through the 2006–07 recruiting season.