Jan. 30, 2009

Rice head football coach David Bailiff has announced the hiring of Larry Edmondson as the Owls' new wide receivers coach.

"We are excited to have Larry on board," Bailiff said. "He has a great deal of experience and success in coaching wide receivers and he also is someone who is well-respected in the high school coaching ranks."

Edmondson, who was the offensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Katy Taylor High School this past season, brings a total of 19 years of college coaching experience, including 14 years of coaching wide receivers, to the Owls. He was the wide receivers coach at SMU from 2004 to 2007, Auburn in 1997-98, Mississippi State in 1996, LSU from 1991-94 and at Southern Miss from 1988-90. He has also served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at SMU (2002-03) and Louisiana-Lafayette (1999-2001).

A 1983 graduate of Texas A&M where he lettered as a tight end and was a teammate of Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak, Edmondson began his coaching career as a graduate assistant with the Aggies from 1984 to 1986. He served as a GA at Arizona in 1987 before joining Curly Hallman's staff at Southern Miss as the wide receivers coach in 1988.