A new era of Kansas football began when Turner Gill was named the Jayhawks' head football coach on Dec. 13, 2009. After turning a one-win Buffalo program into a conference championship team in three short years, Gill, a former Nebraska standout player and assistant coach, returns to his Big 12 Conference roots to take over the Jayhawk program. Gill was a highly successful quarterback at Nebraska and then spent most of his coaching career with the Huskers helping the program to 13 bowl games in his 13 seasons (1992-2004) on the coaching staff. After a year in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers (2005), Gill became a head coach, taking over a Buffalo program which had produced more than two wins in just one of the previous seven seasons. Gill earned Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2007. Gill began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at North Texas in 1989. In 1990 he returned to Nebraska as a graduate assistant. Gill then moved to SMU in 1991 as a graduate assistant before being promoted to a full-time position. He then returned to his alma mater coaching the Nebraska quarterbacks from 1992-2002. He then was named assistant head coach in 2003 and coached the Husker wide receivers in 2004. Gill moved to the NFL for one season, working with the Green Bay Packers as the director of player development and as an offensive assistant in 2005.
Gill and his wife Gayle have two daughters - Jordan and Margaux.
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