Justin Fuente Bio

Seeing how Justin Fuente's name keeps coming up in regards to the Virginia Tech head coach opening I decided to do a bio for people who may not know about him to learn a little about him,

Fuente was born in Oklahoma where he played QB in high school. He was recruited by many of the Big 12 schools but decided to stay in state at Oklahoma. He played for two seasons there before transferring to a familiar place for Hokie fans, Murray State. After graduating he played one year as a backup in the arena football league.

Fuente then got into coaching as a QB coach at Illinois State in 2001, He was promoted to OC in 2004 at Illinois State where he stayed until 2006. Fuente was hired by TCU as the QB coach for the 2007 season. He remained as the QB coach for one season when he was promoted to CO-OC while staying as the QB coach. Fuente helped TCU have a 12-1 record and a BCS bowl game, including a nice beating of LOLUVA in Cville in 2009. In 2010 TCU went undefeated and beat Wisconsin in the Rose bowl, while putting up impressive numbers on offense. In 2011 TCU finished 11-2 and again was putting up impressive numbers using the spread.

After the 2011 season Fuente was offered the Memphis head coaching job. Memphis was 2-10 in 2011 before Fuente took over. The following year Memphis went 4-8. In 2013 Memphis went 3-9. In 2014 Memphis finally turned it around in a big way going 10-3 and a bowl win over BYU in Miami. This was Memphis first bowl game since 2008 and first bowl win since 2005. Now in 2015 Memphis is 8-1 with a win over Ole Miss on their resume.
Fuente has very little information out there about recruiting in fact 247 credits him with 5 recruits.