Paul Hackett (American football)

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Paul Roger Hackett (born July 5, 1947) is an American former football coach. He served as the head football coach for the University of Pittsburgh from 1989 to 1992 and at the University of Southern California (USC) from 1998 to 2000. He also served as a quarterbacks coach and as an offensive coordinator in the National Football League (NFL). Hackett began his college coaching career at his alma mater, the UC Davis, in 1969, assisting the freshmen in the first year and then directing them to a 13–0 mark over the next two seasons under College Football Hall of Fame coach Jim Sochor. He then was an assistant at University of California, Berkeley for four years (1972–1975), the first season as a graduate assistant, the next as the receivers coach and the final two as the quarterbacks coach. Then, at age 29, he moved to USC for five years (1976–1980) as an assistant coach under John Robinson. Hackett then began in the NFL as offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns (1981–82), followed...

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