He's starting over. At age 61.

But Greg Davis' motor is running as fast as it did when he first took an assistant coaching job at Barbe High School in Louisiana in 1973. He's still among the first to arrive at the office every morning after a quick, 14-mile drive from his new home. His voice rises when he discusses the potential of his fifth-year senior at quarterback, whom he regards as a "bigger Major Applewhite."

Actually he's starting up where he abruptly left off a year and a half ago, after 38 seasons of coaching.

Davis who was a polarizing figure as Mack Brown's offensive coordinator for 13 years, through the 2010 season has returned to college football, where he belongs, even though he has changed jobs, donated many of his burnt orange clothes to neighbors and moved to a place so cold that his school played its spring game a year ago on a field covered by snow.

Texas fans no longer have Greg Davis to kick around. The Iowa Hawkeyes can do that if they like when he starts calling plays in the Big Ten and lining up what has been perceived as a stodgy Iowa offense in an empty backfield and working his no-huddle magic.

Davis is back home in a football environment even though he's a thousand-plus miles from Austin. But he's content with his station in life, an invigorated, transplanted Texan who quickly shook off the disappointment of his firing after a highly successful run with the Longhorns punctuated by one really horrific season at the end.

For a year, he considered other offers, taught clinics for Auburn's Gene Chizik and Florida's Will Muschamp and talked with the Houston Texans' Gary Kubiak about a position but decided to spend most of his time with his wife, Patsy, and their three grandchildren in the Dallas area.

Finally, in February, he accepted a new job for the first time since he arrived in Austin with Brown from North Carolina in 1998. Iowa's Kirk Ferentz had listened to sales pitches on Davis' behalf from Ferentz's previous offensive coordinator, Ken O'Keefe, and the Miami Dolphins' new head coach, Joe Philbin, who was a graduate assistant under Davis at Tulane. Philbin also discussed hiring Davis before adding Mike Sherman and O'Keefe to his Dolphins staff.

But Davis is happy where he is. Life goes on.

Surely he was angry and bitter when he was forced out at Texas?

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New lease on coaching life for former UT coach Greg Davis