David Currey, Cincinnati’s football coach from 1984-88, died at age 80.
The university announced his death on Wednesday. No cause of death was given.
Currey also was the Bearcats’ acting athletic director in 1984. He resigned as football coach after the 1988 season with a 19-36 record.
Before his time in Cincinnati, Currey was the head coach at Long Beach State for seven seasons, compiling a 40-36 mark. He also was the offensive coordinator at Stanford for seven seasons.
After Cincinnati, he returned to California as athletic director at Chapman University in Orange, where he served from 1990-2015.
He is credited with overseeing the transition of Chapman athletics from a Division II school with 150 student-athletes with mediocre facilities to a Division III campus with state-of-the-art facilities and 500 participants.
–Field Level Media
