Dave Shula

Dave Shula
No. 85
Position: Wide receiver, kickoff returner
Personal information
Born: (1959-05-28) May 28, 1959
Lexington, Kentucky
Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight: 182 lb (83 kg)
Career information
High school: Chaminade
(Hollywood, Florida)
College: Dartmouth
Undrafted: 1981
Career history
As player:
As coach:
Head coaching record
Regular season: 19–52 (.268)
Player stats at PFR
Coaching stats at PFR

David Donald Shula (born May 28, 1959) is an American former professional football player and current wide receiver coach at Dartmouth College. He is the son of famed National Football League coach Don Shula and brother of Mike Shula.

Biography

The Shula family moved to Detroit in 1960 and Baltimore in 1963, following Don Shula's career in the NFL. The family settled in Miami Lakes, Florida in 1970, where Dave Shula was a high school football and baseball player at Hollywood Chaminade High School.

NFL career

Shula's career as an NFL player was a brief one-season appearance as a wide receiver and kickoff returner with the Baltimore Colts in 1981. He began his coaching career with the Miami Dolphins in 1982, under his father as head coach. In 1989, Shula was hired by Jimmy Johnson to be his offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, a position he held for two seasons. Shula was demoted from that position after the 1990 season, and soon thereafter left the Cowboys to take an assistant coaching position with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1991.

In 1992, Shula was named head coach of the Bengals. At age 32, he was one of the youngest men to achieve such a position with an NFL team. The younger Shula faced off against his father twice, dubbed Shula Bowl I and Shula Bowl II by the media, the first father and son head coaches to face each other in NFL history. Don's Dolphins beat Dave's Bengals in both games, 23–7 in 1994 and 26–23 in 1995. Both games were played in Cincinnati. The younger Shula's stint with the Bengals was unsuccessful and the team was dismal during the 1990s. The team compiled a 19–52 record over Shula's four and a half years at the helm. Infamously, Shula was hired over Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Bill Cowher, presumably due to Bengals owner Mike Brown seeing similarities with himself and Shula in the same manner that their respective fathers (Don Shula and Paul Brown) overshadow them in many aspects. Cowher would take the head coaching position with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers that same offseason and would go on to have a 22-9 career record against the Bengals, the most wins he would have against any team as a head coach.[1] This included an 8-1 record against Shula.

He was fired after starting the 1996 season 1–6. Shula lost 50 games faster than any NFL coach in history (71 games).

After a 22 year absence from coaching, Dave Shula was hired as a wide receiver coach by Dartmouth College on March 29, 2018.[2][3]

Business career

After leaving football, Shula joined the family steakhouse business in 1997 and has helped expand the franchise internationally.[4] He is an amateur golfer, tennis player, and marathon runner.

Head coaching record

NFL

TeamYearRegular SeasonPost Season
WonLostTiesWin %FinishWonLostWin %Result
CIN1992 5110.3134th in AFC Central––––
CIN1993 3130.1884th in AFC Central––––
CIN1994 3130.1883rd in AFC Central––––
CIN1995 790.4383rd in AFC Central––––
CIN1996 160.1433rd in AFC Central–––Fired midseason
CIN Total19520.268––––
Total19520.268––––

References

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrcCbmeJuuU
  2. ↑ http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/greg-cote/article207708964.html
  3. ↑ http://www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-College-football-hires-former-NFL-bench-boss-David-Shula-football-assistant-coach-16520227
  4. ↑ "After 22-year sabbatical, Dave Shula back as Dartmouth WRs coach". CollegeFootballTalk. 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
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