Alma Mater: Kansas, 1975
Hometown: Kansas City, MO
Coaching Experience: 21 years
Playing Career: two-year letterman and starter at linebacker and
defensive end for Kansas, 1970-74.
Extensively credited with restoring TCU's defense to a quality level, the likeable Henderson is in his third season on the Horned Frog grid staff. He serves as Texas Christian's defensive coordinator.
"Coach Henderson has added to our program an abundance of experience and expertise which he gained as an integral part of several previous defensive staffs, but above that, he is a quality person," Pat Sullivan offers of the man who heads up TCU's defense.
As an assistant, Henderson has worked in seven different conferences, and has enjoyed conference championships in five of those stops. Prior to Frogland, Henderson spent four seasons on the Purdue staff, most of that time as the Boilermakers' secondary and special teams' coach, but was elevated to the position of interim defensive coordinator in mid-season of 1993.
Before Purdue, Henderson coached the defensive backs for five seasons (1985-89) at Arizona State. Earlier he had tutored the linebackers at the University of Tulsa in 1983 and 1984.
Previous to serving three seasons as the defensive coordinator at Indiana State (1980-82), Henderson had assistant coach stints at Nebraska-Omaha (1978-79) and Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College (1976-77).
As a collegian, Henderson played linebacker and defensive end at Kansas from 1970 through 1974. He earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Kansas in 1975, then added a master's degree in secondary education from Nebraska in 1979.
Henderson and his wife, Mary, also a Kansas City native, have three children - Brian (a member of the TCU squad), Kelli and Jeff.