Mark Whipple
Whipple (left) with Brandon Weeden, 2012
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UMass |
| Conference | MAC |
| Record | 57–54 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
April 1, 1957 Tarrytown, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1976–1979 | Brown |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1980 | St. Lawrence (Assistant) |
| 1981–1982 | Union (OC) |
| 1983 | Brown (WR) |
| 1984 | Arizona Wranglers (OQC/QB) |
| 1986–1987 | New Hampshire (OC) |
| 1988–1993 | New Haven |
| 1994–1997 | Brown |
| 1998–2003 | UMass |
| 2004–2006 | Pittsburgh Steelers (QB) |
| 2008 | Philadelphia Eagles (assistant) |
| 2009–2010 | Miami (FL) (AHC/OC/QB) |
| 2011–2012 | Cleveland Browns (QB) |
| 2014–present | UMass |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 129–87 |
| Tournaments | 3–2 (NCAA D-II playoffs) 5–2 (NCAA D-I-AA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 NCAA Division I-AA National (1998) 2 A-10 (1999, 2003) |
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| Awards | |
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AFCA Division I-AA Coach of the Year (1998) Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (2003) |
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Mark John Whipple (born April 1, 1957) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently in his second stint as the head coach of the Massachusetts Minutemen football team. He is the former quarterbacks coach for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) in 2011 and 2012. Whipple served as the head football coach at University of New Haven (1988–1993), Brown University (1994–1997), and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1998–2003). His 1998 UMass team won the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship. Before joining the Browns in January 2011, Whipple worked for two seasons as the offensive coordinator at the University of Miami. He previously coached in the NFL, working as a quarterback coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2004 to 2006 and as an offensive assistant coach with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2007 and 2008. On January 14, 2014, Whipple returned to UMass as head coach.
Whipple was born in Tarrytown, New York before moving to Phoenix, Arizona at the age of nine. He is a graduate of Camelback High School, where he was an All-State performer in both football and baseball. Whipple was named the Arizona Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1975.
Whipple went on to play football at Brown University, where he was a 1979 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Whipple was the starting quarterback for the Bears in 1977 and 1978, leading Brown to a 13–5 record and a pair of second-place Ivy League finishes. He was a member of the Bears' 1976 Ivy League championship team, the first Ivy football championship in school history. During his three-year varsity career, he completed 175 of 340 passes for 2,365 yards and 13 touchdowns, while running for 518 yards and 10 touchdowns. A two-time honorable mention All-Ivy pick in football, Whipple also earned four varsity letters on the baseball diamond as Brown’s starting shortstop. He was inducted into the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.
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