Norm Chow

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Norman Chow (Chinese: 周友賢; pinyin: Zhōu Yǒuxián; born May 3, 1946) is the offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans, a National Football League team. He has also been an offensive coordinator at the University of Southern California, North Carolina State University, and Brigham Young University. Chow won the 2002 Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach. He also was named the 2002 NCAA Division I-A Offensive Coordinator of the Year by American Football Monthly and was named the National Assistant Coach of the Year in 1999 by the American Football Foundation. He is known for developing quarterbacks such as Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Ty Detmer, Philip Rivers, Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart and Vince Young.

[edit] Biography

Chow, a native of Honolulu, and an alumnus of Punahou School, played college football for the University of Utah. Chow was a 2-year starter and a 3-year letterman offensive guard for the Utes. In his senior season, Chow was named to the All-WAC first team and gained All-American honorable mention honors. He then played briefly in the Canadian Football League, for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, before an injury ended his professional athletic career. He was selected to Utah's All-Century Team.

He received a doctorate in education, Ed.D., from BYU in 1978 ("Special education teaching competencies: an investigation of the differences of perceived importance of teaching competencies among teachers of categorical areas of special education").^{[citation needed]}

Chow left the University of Southern California in the spring 2005 after helping the Trojans to their second consecutive national championship. He was under consideration for the head coach position at Stanford University, but was passed over in favor of Walt Harris. Chow subsequently joined the Titans under head coach Jeff Fisher, a USC graduate. The extent of Chow's interest in a head coaching job is well known. In addition to Stanford, Chow has been officially "interviewed" for the head coaching jobs with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, North Carolina State University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Hawaii. ^[1] ^[2] ^[3].

Although he resides in Nashville most of the year, Chow maintains his permanent residence in Manhattan Beach, California. Chow and his wife, Diane, have four children. Carter (32), Maile (30), Cameron (25) and Chandler (20).