Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Offensive line coach |
Team | USC |
Conference | Pac-12 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Macon, Georgia |
November 15, 1955
Playing career | |
1974–1977 | University of Alabama |
Position(s) | guard, tackle, defensive end, nose guard, and linebacker |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1980 | Wyoming (Asst.) |
1981–1992 | Auburn (OL) |
1993–1996 | Houston (AHC/OC) |
1997–2000 | Alabama (OL/OC) |
2001–2006 | Georgia (OC/OL) |
2007–2011 | UAB |
2013–2015 | Western Kentucky (OL) |
2016- Present | USC (OL) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 18–42 |
Neil Callaway (born November 15, 1955) is the offensive line coach at the University of Southern California (USC) and the former head coach of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Blazers college football team. Callaway, a 1974 graduate of Central High School in Macon, Georgia, played collegiately at the University of Alabama for legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant as a lineman and linebacker before graduating in 1978. Callaway is married and has three children.
Callaway began his coaching career as a part of Pat Dye's staff at East Carolina University and the University of Wyoming before following Dye to Auburn University as offensive line coach. In twelve years with Auburn, the team won a share of four Southeastern Conference titles and Callaway coached four All-Americans.
In 1993, Callaway became offensive coordinator and assistant head coach at the University of Houston, where the team won a Conference USA title, before returning to his alma mater as offensive line coach for the Tide in 1997 and offensive coordinator from 1998-2000. In 2001, he joined Mark Richt's staff at the University of Georgia as line coach and coordinator, where the team won three SEC division titles and two conference championships in six years there.