Football
Sep 27 (Sat)
8:15 PM
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Ted Gilmore is in his second season on the Colorado staff, as he was hired as wide receivers coach on February 20, 2003.
His first year on the CU sidelines was a productive one, as he coached one of the top single-season receiving duos in Colorado history when seniors D.J. Hackett and Derek McCoy combined for 141 receptions, 1,896 yards and 18 touchdowns.
Gilmore, 37, joined the CU staff after serving two years as the receivers coach at Purdue University. He has roots in the Rocky Mountain area, as he graduated up the road from the University of Wyoming.
After transferring to Wyoming from Butler Community College (Eldorado, Kan.), he lettered at receiver for the Cowboys in 1988 and 1989. He caught 40 passes for a team-high 594 yards and three touchdowns as a junior, and snared 32 receptions for 445 yards and two scores as a senior, when he earned second-team all-Western Athletic Conference honors. He played in one bowl game, a Wyoming loss to Oklahoma State in the Holiday Bowl his junior year. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Wyoming in sociology in 1991.
He began his coaching career at his alma mater, working as a graduate assistant with both receivers and tight ends for three seasons (1994-96) under Wyoming’s then-head coach, Joe Tiller. He was then hired as the full-time receivers coach by the Cowboys for the 1997 and 1998 seasons. He moved on to Kansas for the 1999 season where he coached the tight ends, and then to Houston as its receiver coach for the 2000 season, where he coached the Cougars’ all-time receptions leader, Orlando Inglesias. He then rejoined Tiller on the Purdue staff in the spring of 2001.
At Purdue, he coached perhaps the top receiver duo in the league in 2002, sophomore Taylor Stubblefield and junior John Standeford. The pair combined for 152 receptions for 2,096 yards; Stubblefield was seventh in the NCAA in receptions per game (77 in 10 games), while Standeford caught 75 passes for 1,307 yards and 13 touchdowns, ranking 11th in the nation in yards and tying for third in TD receptions. Purdue was one of the top offensive teams in the nation in 2002, averaging 452.2 yards per game (seventh in the NCAA), including 255.7 yards passing.
He was born March 21, 1967 in Wichita, Kan., and graduated from Wichita South High School, where he lettered in football, basketball and track. He is married to the former Jennifer Schey, and the couple has two small children, daughter Taylor (4) and son T.J. (1). Jennifer, a Longmont native, is the daughter of Dave Schey, one of the top amateur golfers in Colorado history.
