PICKENS — Former Indiana head football coach Sam Wyche died Thursday in Pickens, S.C., passing away just hours before the 2020 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.
He was 74 and passed away after a battle with cancer according to a statement from Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown on the team’s website.
Wyche was a former head coach for the Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and an assistant at San Francisco under the legendary Bill Walsh.
He was also an assistant at South Carolina in 1967 before moving on to the 49ers where we worked under Walsh (1979-82) before becoming head coach in Cincinnati and Tampa Bay.
Wyche was also a quarterbacks coach for the Buffalo Bills (2004-05) he later worked as a broadcaster and was an assistant coach at Pickens High School. He last coached high school football between 2011-19 as Pickens High School’s offensive coordinator.