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Former Baylor letterman Doug Fertsch, a veteran of 25 years of coaching from the collegiate and Texas high school levels, is in his third year as the Bears’ offensive line coach. Fertsch is a native Texan who graduated from Wharton High School, where he participated in football, track and basketball. He was an offensive lineman for the Bears under Coach Grant Teaff from 1973-75. He was an offensive center and guard on the Bear’s celebrated 1974 team which won the SWC championship team. Fertsch worked as a graduate assistant at Baylor in the H.P.E.R. in the spring 1976 while working on his master’s degree. He received his master’s degree from Baylor in 1977 and received his mid-management certification hours from Sam Houston State University in 1989. Fertsch was an assistant football coach from 1976-78 at East Bernard and Luling High schools. He was also assistant head coach and offensive coach at Klein High School for former Baylor coach George Kirk from 1978-81. In 1981, Fertsch was named athletic coordinator and head football coach at Westbury High School in Houston. Fertsch rebuilt a 5A program that increased in participation and victories. Fertsch returned to the college ranks in 1982 by joining another former Baylor coach, Bill Yung, as offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at UTEP. In 1983, Fertsch went to Klein Oak to become athletic director and head football coach. In 1984, their first year of 5A varsity competition, Klein Oak won the district championship and advanced to the state playoffs, an accomplishment they would repeat in 1986 and 1989. For his efforts, Fertsch was named the all-Greater Houston coach of the year (1984), district coach of the year (1984 and 1989) and Touchdown Club of Houston Coach of the Year finalist in 1989. His overall high school head coaching record is 47-35-1. Fertsch performed various functions for the Texas High School Coaches Association, serving as chairman and on the 5A committee for the all-star football game. He was elected to the board of directors in 1989. In 1990, he once again returned to the collegiate football as the offensive coordinator and assistant head coach while coaching the offensive line at Sam Houston State University. He helped guide the Bearkats to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs while winning the Southland Conference and posting a 9-3 record, finishing 12th in the nation. Two years later, Fertsch was named offensive line coach and offensive coordinator coach at Louisiana-Lafayette, where he produced an offense that won two Big West Conference championships. A tireless teacher, 10 of Fertsch’s former players have gone on to the NFL. Doug and his wife, Tricia, have two daughters, Jessica Marie (19) and Mary Allison (11). He is the son-in-law to Eddie Joseph, executive president of the THSCA. The Fertsch File
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