| Dick Bumpas | |
| Birth Date: | 19 December 1949 |
| Player Years1: | 1967-1970 |
| Player Team1: | Arkansas |
| Player Years2: | 1974 |
| Player Team2: | BC Lions (CFL) |
| Player Years3: | 1974-1976 |
| Player Team3: | Memphis Southmen (WFL) |
| Player Positions: | Defensive tackle, Defensive end, Tight end |
| Coach Years1: | 1977 |
| Coach Team1: | Arkansas (GA) |
| Coach Years2: | 1978 |
| Coach Team2: | Army (DL) |
| Coach Years3: | 1979-1980 |
| Coach Team3: | Air Force (DL) |
| Coach Years4: | 1981-1982 |
| Coach Team4: | Kansas State (DL) |
| Coach Years5: | 1983–1984 |
| Coach Team5: | Tennessee Tech (DC) |
| Coach Years6: | 1985–1988 |
| Coach Team6: | Tennessee (LB/ST) |
| Coach Years7: | 1989 |
| Coach Team7: | Arkansas (DL) |
| Coach Years8: | 1990–1991 |
| Coach Team8: | Notre Dame (DL) |
| Coach Years9: | 1992-1994 |
| Coach Team9: | Utah State (DC) |
| Coach Years10: | 1995–1998 |
| Coach Team10: | Navy (DC) |
| Coach Years11: | 1999–2002 |
| Coach Team11: | Houston (Co-DC) |
| Coach Years12: | 2003 |
| Coach Team12: | Western Michigan (DC) |
| Coach Years13: | 2004–2014 |
| Coach Team13: | TCU (DC) |
| Championships: | 1978 |
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Dick G. Bumpas (born December 19, 1949) is a retired American football coach and former player. He was an All-American defensive tackle at Arkansas and an assistant football coach at several college football programs, most notably an 11-year stint as the defensive coordinator at TCU.
Bumpas grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he graduated from Southside High School in 1967 before enrolling at the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship.[1]
Playing for Coach Frank Broyles at Arkansas, he helped the Razorbacks win a Southwest Conference title in 1968 before defeating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, 1969.[2] While his junior season was remembered most for Arkansas' loss to Texas in the Game of the Century, Bumpas earned All-SWC honors and became a Consensus All-American as a senior in 1970.[3]
After graduating from Arkansas, Bumpas played professional football for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and the Memphis Southmen of the World Football League.[4]
Bumpas began his coaching career when Broyles hired him as a graduate assistant at Arkansas in 1977[5] The next year, he took his first full-time job coaching defensive linemen at West Point. That season began a stretch of 26 in which Bumpas coached at 11 different schools. This stretch included stints working under coaches including Fisher DeBerry, Johnny Majors and Lou Holtz - and made him one of the few men to have coached at all three service academies.[6]
During the journeyman phase of his career, Bumpas' time at Kansas State coincided with Wildcat safety Gary Patterson concluding his playing career in 1981 and beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant under head coach Jim Dickey in 1982.[7] This was the first of three times he would cross paths with Patterson as fellow assistants - along with their corresponding stints at Tennessee Tech, Utah State and Navy.[8]
Patterson hired Bumpas to be his defensive coordinator at TCU in 2004,[9] where they built the Frogs into a perennial defensive powerhouse running Patterson's 4-2-5 scheme.[10] Bumpas' time in Fort Worth saw TCU jump from Conference USA to the Mountain West to the Big 12, winning five conference titles along the way.
Under Bumpas' leadership, three Horned Frogs earned AP 1st Team All-American honors on defense:
Additionally, 22 different TCU defenders earned 1st Team All-Conference honors under Bumpas:
Over the course of his coaching career, Bumpas won eight conference titles with four different programs and in five different leagues:
| 1985 | 9–1-2 | 5–1 | ||||
| 1989 | 10-2 | 7-1 | ||||
| 7–5 | 5–1 | |||||
| 11-1 | 8-0 | |||||
| TCU | Mountain West | Gary Patterson | 12-1 | 8-0 | ||
| TCU | Mountain West | Gary Patterson | 13-0 | 8-0 | ||
| TCU | Mountain West | Gary Patterson | 11-2 | 7-0 | ||
| TCU | Gary Patterson | 12-1 | 8-1 |
Bumpas coached in 19 bowl games at 7 different programs, with his teams amassing a record of 14-5 in those games:
| Win | 31–6 | |||||
| Loss | 14–3 | |||||
| Win | 35–7 | |||||
| Tennessee | Win | 21–14 | Johnny Majors | |||
| Tennessee | Win | 27–22 | Johnny Majors | |||
| Loss | 31-27 | |||||
| Loss | 10-9 | Lou Holtz | ||||
| Notre Dame | Win | 39-28 | Lou Holtz | |||
| Win | 42-33 | Charlie Weatherbie | ||||
| Win | 43-38 | Charlie Weatherbie | ||||
| Win | 27-24 | Gary Patterson | ||||
| TCU | Win | 37-7 | Gary Patterson | |||
| TCU | Win | 20-13 | Gary Patterson | |||
| TCU | Win | 17-16 | Gary Patterson | |||
| TCU | Loss | 17-10 | Gary Patterson | |||
| TCU | Win | 21-19 | Gary Patterson | |||
| TCU | Win | 31-24 | Gary Patterson | |||
| TCU | Loss | 17-16 | Gary Patterson | |||
| TCU | Win | 42-3 | Gary Patterson | |||
Bumpas announced his retirement from coaching on February 3, 2015.[21] He was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in while still coaching at TCU in 2011[22] and into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in 2017.[23] He currently resides in Garfield, Arkansas with his wife, Gloria.