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Cowboys Assistant Top Candidate For Arkansas Job
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DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer
January 16, 2007 12:48 AMChange Font SizeAAAA
IRVING, Texas - While the Cowboys sit and wait for an answer from head coach Bill Parcells, they could be losing an offensive assistant to the college ranks.
David Lee, one of five coaches whose contract expired at the end of this past season, is a leading candidate for the Arkansas offensive coordinator position, which surprisingly became available on Monday.
Lee, who joined the Cowboys on Parcells' first staff in 2003, left from Arkansas, where he spent two years as the quarterbacks coach.
In the last four seasons, Lee has been the Cowboys' quarterbacks coach in 2005, along with three years as a quality control/offensive assistant.
However, Lee's specialty is coaching quarterbacks. He is the only offensive assistant to coach quarterback Tony Romo in all of the last four years. In fact, Romo has given Lee most of the credit for improving his mechanics, including footwork and throwing motion.
Lee and current Arkansas head coach Houston Nutt have remained close friends despite his departure from the program in 2003.The Razorbacks are now looking for a replacement to Gus Malzahn, who accepted a co-offensive coordinator position at Tulsa on Monday after spending just one year at Arkansas.
Lee, who also coached at Arkansas from 1984-88, before returning in 2001, coached a pair of first-day draft choices in his second stint with the Razorbacks. Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones became a first-round pick of the Jaguars in 2005 as a wide receiver, while his backup at Arkansas, Tarvaris Jackson, eventually transferred to Alabama State after Lee left for the Cowboys, but became a second-round pick of the Vikings last April. In Lee's four seasons with the Cowboys, he has worked with five different starting quarterbacks in Quincy Carter, Vinny Testaverde, Drew Henson, Drew Bledsoe and Romo. The Cowboys have already lost one assistant coach when Mike Zimmer left to become Atlanta's defensive coordinator. Along with Zimmer and Lee, the contracts of special teams coach Bruce DeHaven, safeties coach Mike MacIntyre and running backs coach Anthony Lynn expired at the end of the season.
DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer
January 16, 2007 12:48 AMChange Font SizeAAAA
IRVING, Texas - While the Cowboys sit and wait for an answer from head coach Bill Parcells, they could be losing an offensive assistant to the college ranks.
David Lee, one of five coaches whose contract expired at the end of this past season, is a leading candidate for the Arkansas offensive coordinator position, which surprisingly became available on Monday.
Lee, who joined the Cowboys on Parcells' first staff in 2003, left from Arkansas, where he spent two years as the quarterbacks coach.
In the last four seasons, Lee has been the Cowboys' quarterbacks coach in 2005, along with three years as a quality control/offensive assistant.
However, Lee's specialty is coaching quarterbacks. He is the only offensive assistant to coach quarterback Tony Romo in all of the last four years. In fact, Romo has given Lee most of the credit for improving his mechanics, including footwork and throwing motion.
Lee and current Arkansas head coach Houston Nutt have remained close friends despite his departure from the program in 2003.The Razorbacks are now looking for a replacement to Gus Malzahn, who accepted a co-offensive coordinator position at Tulsa on Monday after spending just one year at Arkansas.
Lee, who also coached at Arkansas from 1984-88, before returning in 2001, coached a pair of first-day draft choices in his second stint with the Razorbacks. Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones became a first-round pick of the Jaguars in 2005 as a wide receiver, while his backup at Arkansas, Tarvaris Jackson, eventually transferred to Alabama State after Lee left for the Cowboys, but became a second-round pick of the Vikings last April. In Lee's four seasons with the Cowboys, he has worked with five different starting quarterbacks in Quincy Carter, Vinny Testaverde, Drew Henson, Drew Bledsoe and Romo. The Cowboys have already lost one assistant coach when Mike Zimmer left to become Atlanta's defensive coordinator. Along with Zimmer and Lee, the contracts of special teams coach Bruce DeHaven, safeties coach Mike MacIntyre and running backs coach Anthony Lynn expired at the end of the season.
