Vance Bedford

Vance Bedford
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Defensive coordinator
Team Texas
Conference Big 12
Annual salary $800,000
Biographical details
Born (1958-08-20) August 20, 1958
Beaumont, Texas
Alma mater Texas
Playing career
1977–1981 Texas
1982 St. Louis Cardinals
1984 Oklahoma Outlaws
Position(s) Cornerback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985 Forest Brook (TX) HS (Asst.)
1986 Navarro JC (Asst.)
1987–1992 Colorado St. (DB)
1993–1994 Oklahoma St. (DB)
1995–1998 Michigan (DB)
1999–2004 Chicago Bears (DB)
2005–2006 Oklahoma St. (DC)
2007 Michigan (DB)
2008–2009 Florida (DB)
2010–2013 Louisville (DC)
2014–2016 Texas (DC)

Vance Juano Bedford (born August 20, 1958) is an American football coach who last served as defensive coordinator at the University of Texas at Austin for head coach Charlie Strong.[1] He was previously the defensive coordinator at the University of Louisville, where he also served under head coach Charlie Strong. He had served as defensive back coach at the University of Florida under Urban Meyer. He previously served as defensive backs coach under Lloyd Carr at the University of Michigan. He served in that same position for six seasons with the Chicago Bears, and also served two seasons as defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State University-Stillwater.

Bedford was born in Beaumont, Texas. He played high-school football at Hebert High School, where his father Leon Bedford was coach and he was an all-District player for the first all-black high school in Texas to win a University Interscholastic League state title.[2]

He played college football at the University of Texas at Austin where he was a four-year letterman and starter at cornerback as well as the defensive captain. He was a two-time All-Southwest Conference second team selection. He played in two Cotton Bowls and two Sun Bowls.[3] He set a then-Longhorn season record for pass breakups with 22 in 1981 and is currently in the top ten on UT's career pass breakup list (47). At the end of his senior year, he was named a Defensive Valuable Player in the 1982 Senior Bowl All-Star Game. He returned to Texas to receive his diploma in 1984.

Drafted in the 5th round of the NFL draft he played one season for the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals in 1982 and another for the USFL's Oklahoma Outlaws in 1984.

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