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Watson Brown is shown during the first fall UAB practice in Birmingham, Ala., Friday, August 4, 2006. News Staff Photo Mark Almond
(MARK ALMOND)
Watson Brown, UAB's head coach for more than a decade and the man who led the transition from Division I-AA to I-A, retired from coaching on Wednesday.
Brown, 65, was at UAB from 1995-2006, doubling as athletic director for three years, but his last coaching stop was at Tennessee Tech. Brown led that program since 2007.
"I'm retiring from college coaching," Brown said in a Tennessee Tech release. "I've had a blast for 43 years. This is just the right time to do this.
Brown was also a head coach at Austin Peay, Cincinnati, Vanderbilt and Rice. His career record as a head coach was 136-211-1 and he became the first coach in NCAA history to lose 200 games.
Brown's UAB teams went 62-74.
"I'm retiring, but I've not quit working," Brown said. "There are a lot of things I may look at, from the NFL, to being an Athletics Director, to going the radio and television route. There's also a piece left that I didn't ever do, and that was a high school coach. I've always thought those were special guys."