Feb. 5, 2002

Enter Chat Room

WACO, Texas - On Thursday, February 6, Baylor football coach Kevin Steele will make a special visit to the ESPN.com moderated chat room to talk about the the Bears 2002 recruiting class.

Steele came to Baylor prior to the 1999 season as Baylor University's 23rd head football coach with an excellent college and professional coaching background which has built an outstanding knowledge of the game.

After playing linebacker at Tennessee from 1976-1979, Steele stayed on staff for two years as a graduate assistant and then for two years as an assistanty coach tutoring the Volunteer outside linebackers. Steele then moved to New Mexico State, where he served as recruiting coordinator and linebackers coach in 1983. From 1984-86 he was a member of the Oklahoma State staff coaching linebackers and tight ends.

He returned to Tennessee in 1987 to handle defensive backs and spent the next two years there before heading to Nebraska to coach under the legendary Tom Osborne. During Steele's six years in Lincoln, the Cornhuskers went 60-11, appeared in six bowl games, won four conference championships and captured the 1994 national championship with a 13-0 record. In 1995 Steele made the jump to the NFL's expansion Carolina Panthers as the team's linebacker coach. Carolina offered Steele another opportunity to be associated with success. The Panthers made NFL history by reaching the NFC Championship Game in their second season of existence.

While Coach Steele will not be stopping by until 1:30 p.m. CT on Thursday, feel free to fire off your questions now - we'll save them for his arrival!