David McWilliams
"Favorite Son" perfectly describes the union between David McWilliams and The University of Texas.
A native of Cleburne, Texas, McWilliams, is the Executive Director of the T-Association, the department in Intercollegiate Athletics that works with athletes who have lettered at
The University of Texas in a NCAA sport. He has spent more than half his life in direct association with The University of Texas.
For more than 20 years, McWilliams was an integral part of Texas football.
A tri-captain and center on the 1963 National Championship Longhorns, McWilliams was part of an era of Texas football that is almost unmatched in its success. In
his three years, from 1961 through 1963, the Longhorns carved a glittering 30-2-1 record.
Following his graduation as an honor student in math, McWilliams entered the coaching profession,
and in the mid-1960s he became one of the youngest head coaches in Texas high school football when he became head coach at Abilene High.
In 1970, McWilliams returned to Texas to join the staff of Darrell Royal, and he served as an assistant to Royal and later Fred Akers until the 1986 season, when he took the head coaching job at Texas Tech,
where he lead the Raiders to a 7-4 record and a bowl appearance.
In 1987, McWilliams fulfilled a lifelong dream when he returned to Texas as the head coach, and he served five years in that position before resigning
following the 1991 season.
Highlights of his career included a No. 3 national ranking and a Southwest Conference championship at the end of the 1990 regular season, and a 1987 Bluebonnet Bowl win over Pittsburgh. His five-year
Texas record was 31-26-0, with a 23-5 mark against Southwest Conference competition.
In 1998, he was inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame.
McWilliams, who was an instrumental part of the Texas defensive schemes for most of the last 20 years, commands respect among the nation's football coaches, and
retains the love and admiration of his former players and Texas fans as one of the true gentlemen ever to be involved in the game.
McWilliams and his wife, Cindy, have four children--sons Dennis, Corby and Hunter, a daughter, Summer, and one grandson.
