The Scouting Report

Todd Graham returned ‘home’ this past January. A native of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Graham was named Rice University’s 17th head football coach on January lst. In his previous coaching stops, Graham played major roles in reversing the fortunes of struggling programs. It started at East Central University where, in his three seasons as DC, ECU improved from a break-even program to the NAIA national championship in 1993.     As head coach and athletic director at Allen High School (North of Dallas), Graham led a program that had no district wins in the year before his arrival to five playoff berths in six seasons. At West Virginia, Graham helped the Mountaineers improve from a 3-8 mark to 9-3 in his second season. At Tulsa, Graham’s last stop before Rice, the Hurricane jumped from 1-11 prior to his arrival to an 8-4 record in 2003. Last fall Tulsa won the Conference USA