Tom Holmoe

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Personal information

Date of birth:

March 7, 1960 (age 56)

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Height:

6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Weight:

190 lb (86 kg)

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NFL Draft:

1983 / Round: 4 / Pick: 90

Career history

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As coach:

BYU (1990–1991) (GA)
Stanford (1992–1993) (DB)
San Francisco 49ers (1994–1995) (DB)
California (1996) (DC)
California (1997–2001)

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Career highlights and awards

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Thomas Allen Holmoe (born March 7, 1960) is an American college athletics administrator and former football player and coach. He is the athletic director at Brigham Young University (BYU), a position he has held since 2005. Holmoe played college football at BYU and then professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Francisco 49ers from 1983 to 1989. He served as the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2001.

Holmoe starred in both basketball and football at Crescenta Valley High School in La Crescenta, California. He accepted a football scholarship to Brigham Young University, where he played as a cornerback and safety from 1978 to 1982. As a sophomore in 1980, he led the Western Athletic Conference with seven interceptions, and went on to earn all-WAC honors as a senior in 1982. The Cougars won the conference championship in each of his four seasons at the school.

Holmoe was drafted in the fourth round of the 1983 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers. He played seven seasons for the 49ers, winning Super Bowls with the team in 1984, 1988 and 1989, before retiring due to a knee injury.

After retiring from playing, Holmoe entered the coaching ranks, having been urged by LaVell Edwards to return to BYU as a graduate assistant. In 1992, Holmoe accepted an offer from Bill Walsh to join his staff at Stanford University as the defensive backs coach. Holmoe remained at Stanford for two seasons, helping the 1992 Stanford Cardinal football team become the Pacific-10 Conference conference champions with a 10–3 overall record, including a win over Penn State in the Blockbuster Bowl.