Mark Hutson is an American football

American football

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 college coach and a former All-America offensive lineman for the Oklahoma Sooners

Oklahoma Sooners

The University of Oklahoma features 19 varsity sports teams. Both men's and women's teams are called the Sooners, a nickname given to the early participants in the land rushes which initially opened the Oklahoma Indian Territory to non-native settlement. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A,...

 in the 1980s and among the top players in school history.

Playing career

Hutson was selected to the OU All-Century Team and one of the Top 100 Players in OU History, following a stellar career with the Sooners, which saw him selected to All-America teams in 1986 and 1987. He was team captain for the 1985 National Championship team and was selected All-Big Eight Conference

Big Eight Conference

The Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University...

 three times in his career. He also played in the 1988 Hula Bowl

Hula Bowl

The Hula Bowl was an independently administered post-season invitational college football game held each year in Hawaii from 1947 to 2008. The game was last played at Aloha Stadium in the Hālawa district of Honolulu, Hawaii. At one point the longest-running sporting event in Hawaii, it had been...

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After his college days, Hutson was selected in the third round of the 1988 NFL Draft

1988 NFL Draft

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 by the Dallas Cowboys

Dallas Cowboys

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. A back injury forced him to end his professional career without having played a regular season game in the National Football League

National Football League

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, though he did spent two seasons with the organization.

Hutson returned to campus and finished his degree in communications in 1990.

Coaching career

Hutson began coaching with his alma mater in 1990 as a graduate assistant

Graduate assistant

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. He coached with Houston Nutt

Houston Nutt

Houston Dale Nutt, Jr. is an American football coach and former player. Most recently he was the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 2008 to 2011. Previously, he served as the head coach at Murray State University , Boise State University , and the University of Arkansas...

 at Murray State University

Murray State University

Murray State University, located in the city of Murray, Kentucky, is a four-year public university with approximately 10,400 students. The school is Kentucky’s only public university to be listed in the U.S.News & World Report regional university top tier for the past 20 consecutive years...

, Boise State University

Boise State University

Boise State University is a public university located in Boise, Idaho. Originally founded in 1932 as a junior college by the Episcopal Church, the university became an independent institution in 1934, and has been awarding baccalaureate and master degrees since 1965...

 and the University of Arkansas

University of Arkansas

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. While with the Razorbacks, Hutson was selected Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

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 Special Teams Coach of the Year.

His coaching travels next took Hutson to the University of Tulsa

University of Tulsa

The University of Tulsa is a private university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is currently ranked 75th among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is listed as one of the "Best 366 Colleges" by...

 as the offensive line coach from 2000 to 2002. Following Tulsa, Hutson came to Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois University is a state university located in Charleston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1895 as the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, a teacher's college offering a two-year degree, Eastern Illinois University gradually expanded into a comprehensive university with a...

 and spent four seasons as assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. In the 2006 season, he jumped in as acting head coach when Bob Spoo

Bob Spoo

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 was sidelined after surgery. The team finished with an 8–5 season record, 7–1 in the Ohio Valley Conference

Ohio Valley Conference

The Ohio Valley Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision , the lower of two levels of Division I...

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During Hutson's tenure at Eastern Illinois, the team won two conference titles and went to the NCAA Division I playoff twice. The team he led as interim head coach lost in the first round of the 2006 playoffs, 24–13, to Illinois State.

Hutson joined the Tulane University

Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

 staff in 2007 as offensive line coach. He has been named interim coach for Tulane's remaining six games following the resignation of Bob Toledo

Bob Toledo

Bob Toledo is a former American football coach and player. Toledo served as the head coach at University of California, Riverside , the University of the Pacific , the University of California, Los Angeles , and Tulane University...

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External links

• Tulane profile