Danny Phillips Position: Assistant Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator Position Coach: Linebackers

Danny Phillips is in his second stint on the Tulsa coaching staff. He returned to Tulsa after one season as Rice's defensive line coach. He coached all-league performer Courtney Gordon and three honorable mention all-conference selections last season. Phillips will serve as co-defensive coordinator and will also coach the linebackers.

The native of Marlow, Oklahoma, Phillips spent three seasons at Tulsa from 2003-05. Phillips' work with the Hurricane defensive line helped Tulsa win the 2005 C-USA Championship and the AutoZone Liberty Bowl Championship. Tulsa also went to the Humanitarian Bowl in 2003. He also worked with Tulsa's new head coach at West Virginia and Allen (Texas) High School. At WVU as a graduate assistant coach, Phillips assisted with the Mountaineers' linebackers in 2001, a team that played in the Continental Tire Bowl.

Phillips had nine years experience as a high school coach before moving to the college level. Five of those seasons were spent building Allen High School into a Class 5A power. Phillips also spent three years on the staff at Santa Fe High School in Edmond, Okla., the last two as the defensive coordinator, and one season as the linebacker coach at Edmond High School, helping that squad to the Oklahoma Class 5A finals.

Phillips, 37, played his college football at Southeastern Oklahoma State, helping the Savages to Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference titles in 1988 and `89. He earned his bachelor's degree in education with a minor in biology from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1993.