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Gerald Carr, a 24-year coaching veteran, serves as Baylor's assistant head coach and tutors the Bears' running backs. Baylor's third-year assistant head coach acts on behalf of Guy Morriss when the head coach is unavailable and handles numerous administrative duties for the program. He has worked at nearly every level of his profession, including stints on both the high school and collegiate levels, as well as National Football League and Arena Football League coaching experiences. His first season at Baylor saw running back Rashad Armstrong earn third-team All-Big 12 honors from the league's coaches and become the school's first 1,000-yard rusher since 1995 (and just the sixth all-time). Armstrong rushed for 1,074 yards, the fifth-best one-season mark in school history. Carr also directed a 2003 BU ground attack that increased its productivity by nearly seven yards per game over its 2002 output and recorded its highest per-game average since the 1998 campaign. In 2004, he tutored Paul Mosley, whose per-carry average of 4.6 yards was the best by a Baylor season rushing leader since 1997. Hired as Kentucky's running backs coach in February 2002, Carr was promoted to assistant head coach two months later. During his lone season in Lexington, he mentored the Southeastern Conference's leading rusher, Artose Pinner, a consensus first-team all-league performer who also earned Associated Press SEC Offensive Player of the Year honors. Pinner was selected in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. Prior to his UK stint, Carr spent the 2001 campaign at Indiana University, where he was the Hoosiers' quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator. Under his tutelage, IU quarterback Antwaan Randle El earned first-team All-America and Big Ten Most Valuable Player honors. Randle El became the first player in NCAA history to have 40 rushing touchdowns and 40 passing scores in a career and also the only player in NCAA history to pass for more than 6,000 yards and rush for more than 3,000 yards in a career. Randle El, who rushed for more yards than any quarterback in NCAA history and ranks fifth all-time in total offense with 11,364 yards, finished sixth in the 2001 Heisman Trophy voting and was a second-round selection of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers. Carr, who began his coaching career in 1981 at his prep alma mater, North Mecklenberg (N.C.) High School, has been an offensive assistant for all but one season of his collegiate coaching career, working at Southern Illinois (1982), Davidson (1983-85), Akron (1986-88), Washington State (1989-90), Arizona (1991), North Carolina (1992-94), Wake Forest (1999), Indiana (2001), Kentucky (2002) and Baylor. He gained his first bowl experience with North Carolina, helping coach Mack Brown's Tar Heels to the Peach, Gator, and Sun bowls and some 27 victories during his three seasons (1992-94) with the program. He also helped Wake Forest to a victory in the 1999 Aloha Bowl. He entered the professional ranks as wide receivers coach for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles from 1995-98. The Eagles advanced to the playoffs following the 1995 and 1996 regular seasons. In 1996, Pro Bowl wideout Irving Fryar set the Eagles' single-season record for receptions with 88. Carr spent the 2000 season with the Carolina Cobras of the Arena Football League, working as the team's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks/wide receivers coach. A native of Davidson, N.C., Carr played quarterback at Southern Illinois and was a Saluki letterwinner from 1978-80 before earning his bachelor's degree (administrative sciences) from SIU in 1981. He and his wife, Vanessa, have two daughters, Ashonti and Miteya.
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