Alan Wartes is back for his 18th season as the offensive coordinator for the Cowboys. His teams have established themselves as one of the most consistent offenses in the nation.

The Cowboys have been in the top 20 in the nation in offense in nine of the last 11 years and ranked third nationally a year ago.

Coaches from all levels of play take pages out of the HSU playbook and his Big Country Passing Camp is a big hit among quarterbacks and receivers all over the Southwest.

Since 1990, HSU quarterbacks have thrown 356 touchdown passes and more than 43,000 yards. Wartes has coached four All-American quarterbacks, Tom Enloe, Kevin Beam, Todd Baumann and Dustin Proctor, as well as seven All-American receivers.

He has coached 113 offensive players to all-conference honors at HSU. Including seven players of the year.

The native of the Panhandle town of Hereford, served as quarterback coach at John Tyler High School in Tyler under then-head coach Jimmie Keeling. Prior to that, he was a graduate assistant at Texas Tech, where he earned a master's degree.

The 1986 Howard Payne University graduate, is married to the former Sharon Harmon of Dallas. They are the parents of daughters Abbey, 19, and Erin, 17.