Garrick McGee Position: Offensive Coordinator Birthdate: 04/06/1973 Experience: Fourth Year

Garrick McGee spent four years (2004-07) with the Wildcats, his last two as Northwestern's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He was promoted to coordinator in February of 2006 after spending the first two years as the Wildcats' wide receivers coach.

At the helm of Northwestern's spread attack, McGee helped the Wildcat offense become one of the nation's most potent units. In 2005, when McGee served as the 'Cats' receivers coach, Northwestern became just the second offense in Big Ten history to average over 500 yards per game. The Wildcats averaged a school-record 500.3 yards per game, which ranked fourth nationally.

Northwestern's passing attack also savored a record-setting campaign in 2005, averaging 306.8 yards per game, which led the Big Ten and ranked seventh in the country. McGee coached a receiving corps that at the end of the 2005 season, had three wideouts with 100 or more career receptions -- a first in school history.

In 2007, Northwestern led the Big Ten (regular season) in total offense with an average of 427.7 yards per game. In back-to-back wins over Michigan State and Minnesota, the Wildcats totaled 1,200 yards of offense, with junior quarterback C.J. Bacher throwing for 990 yards, including a school-record 520 against Michigan State.

A former quarterback at Oklahoma, McGee has 13-plus years of college and professional coaching experience.

Prior to joining Northwestern, McGee worked at UNLV, where he coached the Rebels' wideouts in 2003. Prior to UNLV, McGee was the receivers coach at the University of Toledo. During the 2002 season, which included a trip to the Motor City Bowl, Toledo receivers caught 309 passes for 3,611 yards and 25 touchdowns, while senior Carl Ford became the first 1,000-yard receiver in Rocket history, finishing with 79 receptions for 1,042 yards and a school-record-tying nine TDs. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers. Overall, UT finished fifth in the nation in total offense with 472 yards per game.

Before joining Toledo, McGee spent two seasons as offensive quality control coach with the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. He headed to the pro ranks after coaching receivers at Northern Iowa in 1999 under former NU offensive coordinator Mike Dunbar. McGee began his coaching career at Langston (Okla.) University, where he spent three years (1996-98) coaching defensive backs and then quarterbacks, receivers and special teams.

In his first full season (2004) with the Wildcats, the receivers averaged 237.3 yards per game -- NU's best output since the 2001 season. McGee coached a pair of All-Big Ten receivers -- Mark Philmore and Shaun Herbert.

Prior to the 2005 season, McGee was one of 10 coaches selected to participate in the NCAA Expert Coaching Academy. The program is designed to teach and reinforce various aspects of securing, managing and excelling in NCAA head coaching positions at the Division I-A level.

A native of Tulsa, McGee starred at Booker T. Washington High School for his late father, Larry McGee. Garrick began his college playing career at Arizona State in 1991-92. After a year in junior college at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M, he transferred to Oklahoma and played two seasons at quarterback for the Sooners. McGee left ranked fourth on the school's career passing list with 2,449 yards and was the coaches' pick for Big Eight Conference Newcomer of the Year as a junior in 1994.

McGee earned his degree from Oklahoma in 1996.