Archie McDaniel - Football Coach - University of Houston Athletics

Archie McDaniel

Title:
Linebackers

Archie McDaniel
Hometown	Bay City, Texas
College	Texas A&M, 2005
Family	Children, Aubree and Christian
COACHING EXPERIENCE
Year	School, Position
2021 -	Houston, Linebackers
2019-20	Texas State, Linebackers
2018	New Mexico, Outside Linebackers
2015-17	SMU, Linebackers
2014	New Mexico, Outside Linebackers
2012-13	New Mexico, Defensive Line
2011	Tulsa, Defensive Line
2010	Tulsa, Tight Ends/H-Backs
2009	Texas Southern, Linebackers
2008	Texas A&M, Graduate Assistant
2007	Trinity Valley Community College, Defensive Assistant
BOWL EXPERIENCE
Year	Bowl, School
2022	Independence Bowl, Houston
2021	Birmingham Bowl, Houston
2017	Frisco Bowl, SMU
2011	Armed Forces Bowl, Tulsa
2010	Hawai'i Bowl, Tulsa

• Coach Archie McDaniel on Twitter

• Houston Football head coach Dana Holgorsen announced on Feb. 2, 2021 the addition of Archie McDaniel as the program's linebackers coach. The 2023 season will be his third with the Cougars.

• Under McDaniel's guidance, senior linebacker Donavan Mutin led the Cougars with 85 tackles during the 2022 season. The Spring, Texas, native capped his career with 252 tackles. Mutin's 245 tackles since the start of the 2019 season rank seventh among all American Athletic Conference linebackers.

• Linebackers Mannie Nunnery and Jamal Morris also turned in strong sophomore campaigns during 2022. Nunnery's 74.2 overall defensive grade by PFF ranked second among American Athletic Conference underclassmen linebackers. He also paced the league's underclassmen with a 78.2 coverage grade. Morris was key for the Cougars down the stretch, totaling 10 tackles against SMU on Nov. 5 and eight tackles in Houston's Independence Bowl victory against Louisiana.

• In his first year as the program's linebackers coach, McDaniel helped the linebacker duo of Mutin and Deontay Anderson combine for 140 tackles.

• Under McDaniel’s tutelage, Mutin’s three forced fumbles ranked fourth in the American Athletic Conference. Mutin also earned Second Team American All-Conference Team honors.

• McDaniel joined the Cougars' coaching staff after spending two seasons at Texas State, coaching a pair of All-Sun Belt Conference linebackers during the 2019 season.

• He coached 2019 All-Sun Belt First-Team selection Bryan London II, who ranked second in the conference with 118 tackles in 2019. Under McDaniel's tutelage, linebacker Nik Daniels was also selected as an All-Sun Belt Third Team performer during 2019.

• Prior to Texas State, McDaniel spent the 2018 season at New Mexico as the Lobos' outside linebackers coach. McDaniel returned to New Mexico after serving three years as linebackers coach at SMU (2015-17). The Mustangs were one of college football's ten-most improved defenses in 2016, ranking seventh nationally in interceptions while forcing 26 turnovers.

• McDaniel also spent three seasons at New Mexico (2012-14), working as the defensive line coach (2012-13) before moving to linebackers (2014). He served as an assistant coach at Tulsa from 2010-11, working with the Golden Hurricane's tight-ends/H-backs in 2010 before taking over as defensive line coach in 2011.

• As a linebacker at Texas A&M, McDaniel was a three-year starter and team captain as a senior for the Aggies. He helped Texas A&M to a berth in the 2005 Cotton Bowl and recorded 213 tackles, five sacks and two interceptions during his three-year career (2003-05).

• McDaniel also serves as the president of the Minority Coaches Advancement Association, an organization founded in 2020 that holds events and meetings to help train and prepare minority coaches for head coaching positions in college football.

• McDaniel has a daughter, Aubree and a son, Christian.