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Walt Harris (born November 9, 1946 in South San Francisco, California) is the head coach of the football team at Stanford University. Stanford announced Harris as its new head coach on December 13 2004. In his first season as head coach there, he posted a record of 5-6.

Harris has had a long, successful coaching career. Before coming to Stanford, Harris was the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers for eight seasons (1997-2004). Harris resurrected a falling Pitt program that had won only 15 games in the previous five seasons. Harris took Pitt to bowl games in six of his eight seasons, including five consecutive bowl games from 2000 through 2004. Harris led Pittsburgh to the Big East Conference championship in 2004. Harris was named the Big East Conference coach of the year in 1997 and 2004, and he was the AFCA Region I coach of the year in 2002.

Before coaching in Pittsburgh, Harris had an extensive coaching resume. Harris coached at Ohio State University (QB coach, 1995-1996), the New York Jets (QB coach, 1992-1994), the University of the Pacific (head coach, 1989-1991), the University of Tennessee (offensive coordinator, 1983-1988), the University of Illinois (QB coach, 1980-1982), Michigan State University (linebacker coach, 1978-1979), the United States Air Force Academy (secondary coach, spring 1978), the University of California, Berkeley (linebacker coach, 1974-1977), the University of the Pacific (secondary, 1971-1973), and El Camino High School in South San Francisco, California (1970).

Harris has a reputation as a good coach of quarterbacks and the passing game. As a college coach, Harris has coached 14 quarterbacks who went on to the NFL. Harris coached two wide receivers at Pitt who won the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the best receiver in the nation -- Antonio Bryant (2000) and Larry Fitzgerald (2003). Harris was the QB coach for Ohio State when Terry Glenn won the Biletnikoff Award (1995). Harris also coached Boomer Esiason to a Pro Bowl season with the New York Jets in 1993. According to Esiason, "Walt Harris is right up there with the best. There's nobody better."

Harris received a bachelor's degree (1968) and a master's degree (1969) from the University of the Pacific, where he played college football. Harris attended El Camino High School in South San Francisco.

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