Sonny Dykes
Dykes at 2016 Bay Area College Football Media Day
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| Sport(s) | Football, baseball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Offensive analyst (football) |
| Team | TCU |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 9, 1969 Big Spring, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| Baseball | |
| 1989–1993 | Texas Tech |
| Position(s) | First baseman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1994 | Richardson (TX) Pearce HS (RB) |
| 1995 | Navarro JC (RB) |
| 1996 | Navarro JC (PGC/QB) |
| 1997 | Kentucky (GA/TE) |
| 1998 | Northeast Louisiana (WR) |
| 1999 | Kentucky (ST/WR) |
| 2000–2004 | Texas Tech (WR) |
| 2005–2006 | Texas Tech (co-OC/WR) |
| 2007–2009 | Arizona (OC/QB) |
| 2010–2012 | Louisiana Tech |
| 2013–2016 | California |
| 2017–present | TCU (off. analyst) |
| Baseball | |
| 1994 | Monahans (TX) HS (assistant) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 41–45 |
| Bowls | 1–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 WAC (2011) | |
| Awards | |
| WAC Coach of the Year (2011) | |
Daniel "Sonny" Dykes (born November 9, 1969) is an American football coach and a former college baseball player. He is an offensive analyst at Texas Christian University (TCU), a position to which he was hired in January 2017. Dykes served as the head football coach at University of California, Berkeley for four seasons before being fired after the 2016 season.
Dykes began his career as a high school baseball and football coach in Texas, then moved up to the junior college and college level as an assistant football coach, including stints with Kentucky, Texas Tech, and Arizona. In 2010, Dykes became a head college football coach for the first time at Louisiana Tech. After a 5–7 record in his first season, Dykes led Louisiana Tech to an 8–5 record in 2011 with a Western Athletic Conference title and followed that with a 9–3 record in 2012. Dykes then became head coach at California in 2013.
After coaching Cal football to its worst season (1–11) in program history in 2013, Dykes improved to 5–7 in 2014 and then to an 8–5 record and Armed Forces Bowl victory in 2015. He finished the 2016 season with 5–7 record, his third losing season in four years at California, culminating in him being fired in January 2017. Dykes has an overall record of 41–45 as a head football coach.
Sonny Dykes graduated from Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas where he played both football and baseball. He lettered for three years as a first baseman for the Texas Tech baseball team. Dykes earned a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from Texas Tech University in 1993 and a master's degree from the University of Kentucky in 1999.
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