Football
- Title:
- Assistant Head Coach/Receivers
- Email:
- football@central.uh.edu
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Coaching Accomplishments
• Tyron Carrier was named Assistant Head Coach and Receivers coach at Houston on Jan. 11, 2019 after three seasons as receivers coach at West Virginia.
• In 2018, Carrier was named Football Scoop’s Receivers Coach of the Year as he helped lead a Mountaineer offense that eclipsed the 500-yard and 40-point marks eight times during the season including 704 yards and 56 points vs. Oklahoma.Â
• Carrier's pupils, David Sills V and Gary Jennings Jr. formed one of the nation's most dangerous tandems as the two were part of only five players nationally with at least 13 receiving touchdowns.
• Sills caught a team-high 65 passes for 986 yards and 15 touchdowns, one off from the national lead, while Jennings caught 54 passes for 917 yards and 13 scores in 11 appearances.
• In addition to Sills and Jennings, junior Marcus Simms caught 46 passes for 699 yards and two scores, sophomore TJ Simmons snared 22 receptions for 277 yards and one score, while senior Dominique Maiden caught eight passes for 130 yards and a score.
• West Virginia was only one yard shy of joining Alabama and Hawai’i as the only teams to boast three 700-yard receivers.
• As a team, West Virginia finished fourth nationally in passing (351.3 yards per game), eighth in total offense (512.3) and 10th in scoring (40.3 points per game). The Mountaineers’ 153 completions of 10-plus yards were ninth in the nation, and its 36 gains of at least 30 yards were fourth.
• Sills was named a Second Team AP All-American and a First Team All-Big 12 performer, while Jennings was an Honorable Mention All-Big 12 honoree.
• In three seasons as a Mountaineer, all under Carrier's watch, Sills finished seventh in Big 12 history with 35 career touchdown receptions.
• West Virginia boasted two 1,000-yard receivers in 2017 as Gary Jennings Jr. led the unit with 97 catches for 1,096 yards and a touchdown and Ka’Raun White finished with 61 catches for 1,004 yards and 12 touchdowns. David Sills V, named to 10 different All-American teams, tied for the national lead with 18 touchdowns and was a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, given to the nation’s top receiver. He had 60 catches for 980 yards, while Marcus Simms finished with 35 catches for 663 yards and five touchdowns.
• The Mountaineer offense ranked No. 3 nationally in fourth-down conversion percentage, No. 13 in passing offense, No. 16 in passing efficiency, No. 20 in total offense and No. 25 in first-down offense and passing yards per completion.
• In 2016, Shelton Gibson and Daikiel Shorts Jr. earned All-Big 12 Conference Second Team honors and White was named to the Academic All-Conference team. Gibson was No. 4 nationally in yards per reception and No. 47 in receiving touchdowns and receiving yards. Shorts was No. 7 in the Big 12 in receiving yards, No. 10 in receiving yards per game and No. 12 in receptions per game. White was No. 15 in the league in receiving touchdowns, No. 14 in receptions per game and No. 16 in receiving yards per game.
• The offense ranked No. 17 in total offense, No. 20 in first-down offense, No. 31 in passing efficiency, No. 37 in passing yards per completion and No. 42 in passing offense.
• Prior to West Virginia, Carrier spent one season as a graduate assistant at Baylor where the Bears boasted one of the top receiving corps in the nation, led by Corey Coleman, a unanimous All-America selection and Biletnikoff Award winner.
• A Houston letterwinner, Carrier finished his stellar four-year career tied for the NCAA record with seven kickoff returns for touchdowns. He also set an NCAA record by making two or more receptions in all 53 games of his collegiate career.
• He ranked No. 2 on the NCAA’s all-time receptions chart (320) and his 7,490 career all-purpose yards rank No. 6 all-time. He finished with 3,459 yards and 22 TDs on 320 receptions, 330 yards and one touchdown rushing and 3,459 yards and seven touchdowns on kick returns.
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• A two-time All-Conference USA selection at wide receiver and kick returner, Carrier earned 2009 All-America honorable mention as a kick returner from Sports Illustrated as a sophomore.
• Also a track star at UH, Carrier competed in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he ran a 20.54 200-meters. Carrier was a seven-time state champion in relays and 200m individual champion at Worthing High in Houston, where he starred in football and track.
• Following his collegiate career, Carrier played two seasons for the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes. He finished No. 5 in the league in 2013 with 1,117 combined return yards and two touchdowns.
• Carrier and his wife, Alysha, have three sons, Tyron Jr., Titan, and Tatum.
