Kendal Briles
Kendal Briles is an American football coach. He was hired on December 9, 2025, as the offensive coordinator for the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Playing career
In his junior year of high school, Briles led Stephenville High School to a 16-0 record and the 1999 Texas 4A State Championship while playing for his father. That year he won the Texas 4A Offensive Player of the Year and first-team all-state quarterback. He transferred to Wolfforth Frenship High as a senior when his father took an assistant coaching job at Texas Tech and was again named the Texas 4A Offensive Player of the Year.Briles played college football at the University of Texas at Austin and University of Houston as a wide receiver and [Safety (gridiron American football|football position)|safety].
At Texas, Briles saw action on special teams as a redshirt freshman in 2001. In 2002 he played in seven games as a back-up safety, recording two interceptions and 10 tackles while also dealing with two injuries. At the end of the 2002 season, his father Art Briles became the head coach at Houston, and Kendal was granted a transfer to join him there.
At Houston he was moved to wide receiver, catching 70 passes for 680 yards and a score. He graduated in 2005 with a degree in sport management.
He was inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in 2014.
Coaching career
Baylor
In 2008, Briles joined his father at Baylor University as inside receivers coach and offensive recruiting coordinator. From 2012 to 2014 he served as Baylor's passing game coordinator, receivers coach and offensive recruiting coordinator. In 2015 Briles was promoted to offensive coordinator. He was a 2015 finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top college football assistant coach.In 2016, Baylor's football team came under fire when it was revealed university officials had failed to take action regarding alleged rapes and other assaults by Baylor football players. The scandal led to the ouster of head football coach Art Briles, the demotion and eventual resignation of Baylor University president Ken Starr, the resignation of athletic director Ian McCaw, and the firing of two others connected with the football program. A lawsuit filed after the scandal alleged that Kendal Briles had explicitly used the prospect of access to Baylor's female students to entice football recruits, with Briles quoted as telling a recruit "Do you like white women? Because we have a lot of them at Baylor and they love football players."