Since 1996, the Frank Broyles Award has gone to the nation’s top assistant football coach. The award is named in honor of longtime Arkansas athletic director and former Razorbacks coach Frank Broyles. During his coaching career Broyles developed a reputation for producing outstanding assistants with more than 25 becoming head coaches at the college or professional level. Among the former Broyles’ assistants were Joe Gibbs, Hayden Fry, Jimmy Johnson, Johnny Majors, Jackie Sherrill, and Barry Switzer. Each NCAA Division I head coach may nominate one of his assistants for the Broyles Award. The finalists are then chosen by an eight-man panel that may be the most prestigious in the game: Broyles, former Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler, former Georgia coach Vince Dooley, former Washington coach Don James, former Syracuse coach Dick MacPherson, former Baylor coach Grant Teaff, former BYU
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