Head Coach Troy Taylor

TROY TAYLOR

Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator | Third Year | California, ’89

AT SACRAMENTO STATE

• Troy Taylor was named the 11th head football coach at Sacramento State on Dec. 17, 2018. • In his first season with the Hornets, he guided the team to a 9-4 overall record and a 7-1 league record which gave the team a share of the Big Sky Conference title for the first time in school history as well as its first NCAA FCS Playoff berth. • For those efforts, he was named the conference coach of the of the year and was the recipient of the Eddie Robinson Award (FCS national coach of the year). • Sacramento State was ranked as high as third in the

Football Championship Subdivision and set records for most points, touchdowns and passing yards in school history. • The Hornets had a school record 15 players named all-conference, including a Big Sky-leading seven on the first team. • Quarterback Kevin Thomson was named the Big Sky

Offensive Player of the Year and one of four finalists for the Walter Payton Award. • Thomson amassed 3,835 yards of total offense and set the school record by accounting for 39 touchdowns.

AT UTAH

• Served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Utah for 2017-18. • In 2018, the Utes won the Pac-12 Conference South title for the first time in school history and finished the season with a 9-5 overall record and an appearance in the Holiday Bowl. • Utah averaged 28.7 points per game in 2018 and averaged 396.0 yards per game in a balanced attack which featured 186.8 yards rushing and 209.2 yards passing per game. • His offense featured a pair of quarterbacks during the year who combined to completed 61.9 percent of their passes with 15 touchdowns. Seventeen players caught a pass with eight hauling in at least 10. Running back Zack Moss sparked the ground game with 1,096 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. • During his first season with the Utes (2017), his offense featured a second-team all-Pac-12 receiver (Darren Carrington II) and a 1,000-yard rusher (Moss).

Taylor’s offense spread the ball around with 16 players catching passes and 11 players rushing from scrimmage. • Utah amassed 413.4 total yards per game and posted a 30-14 win over West Virginia in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

HONORS

• 2019 Eddie Robinson Award Winner (FCS Coach of the Year) • 2019 Big Sky Coach of the Year

HOMETOWN

Rancho Cordova, Calif.

• Located 15 miles east of Sacramento along Highway 50. • Originated as a gold mining town but boomed in the 1950s with Mather Air Force Base and Aerojet. • Cordova HS alumni include NBC news anchor

Lester Holt, MLB players Chris Bosio, Geoff Jenkins and Jerry Manuel, NFL veterans Gerald and Kevin

Willhite and Seneca Wallace.

COACHING EXPERIENCE

• Sacramento State

Head Coach (2019-pres.) • Utah

Off. Coordinator/QBs (2017-18) • Eastern Washington

Co-Off. Coordinator/QBs (2016) • Folsom HS

Co-Head Coach (2002-04; 2012-15) • Christian Brothers HS

Assistant Coach (2000) • California

TEs/QBs/WRs/Recruiting Coord. (1996-99) • Colorado

Graduate Assistant/WRs (1995) • Casa Roble HS

Assistant Coach (1994)

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AT EASTERN WASH.

• Taylor returned to college football in 2016 as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Eastern Washington. • That season, he directed the top passing offense in the FCS and set numerous national and school records. • The Eagles averaged an FCS-best 401.0 passing yards per game, ranked second nationally with 529.6 yards per game and was third in scoring offense (42.4 ppg). • EWU posted a 12-2 overall record and advanced to the FCS semifinals. • Gage Gubrud set an NCAA FCS single-season record by passing for 5,160 yards while throwing 48 touchdown passes. • Gubrud, the 2016 FCS Player of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Columbus, averaged 368.6 passing yards per game, which also led the nation. • All-American Cooper Kupp caught 117 passes for 1,700 yards and 17 touchdowns before being selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the third round of the NFL Draft.

AT FOLSOM HS

• Taylor was co-head coach from 2012-15. • The Bulldogs set numerous California state records, including the most points scored in a season. • Folsom posted a 58-3 overall record, won the Sac-

Joaquin Section title each season and claimed the 2014 CIF Div. I championship with a 68-7 win over

Oceanside HS. • The team also set the California record for passing yards in four consecutive years. • One of his stars with the Bulldogs was Jake Browning, who would become the 2016 Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year for Washington. • Browning set national records for touchdowns in a season (91 in 2014, tied) and a career (229, in just three seasons). • He set a number of California state high school records as well, including season (5,790) and career (16,775) passing yards.

EARLY CAREER

• First coaching job was at Casa Roble High School in

Orangevale, Calif., in 1994. • The following year, he was a graduate assistant at

Colorado where he worked with the wide receivers. • Returned to Cal in 1996 and remained at his alma mater through 2000 where he had stints coaching receivers, quarterbacks and tight ends. • Was also Cal’s recruiting coordinator in 1999. • Became an assistant athletics director at Christian

Brothers High School (2000-01) in Sacramento, where he also taught and was an assistant football coach for one season (2000). • Spent 2003-04 at Folsom High School as the cohead coach. • Stepped away from coaching after the 2004 season but remained in football, serving as the radio analyst for Cal from 2005-11.

AS A PLAYER

• Guided Cordova High School to a 14-0 record and a section championship while being named the

Northern California Player of the Year in 1985. • Continued his career at Cal where he was the starting quarterback for the Golden Bears from 1986-89. • Led the Pac-10 in total offense as a senior and left

Cal as the all-time leading passer with 8,126 yards. • He was drafted by the New York Jets in the fourth round of the 1990 NFL Draft. • Was a member of the Jets in 1990-91.

PERSONAL

• Graduated from Cal with a degree in education in 1989. • He and his wife, Tracey, have three children (sons

Noah and Aaron and daughter Ella).