Coaching Career
In 2003, Austin entered coaching as the quarterbacks coach of the Ottawa Renegades. The following year he was hired as Toronto offensive coordinator, helping lead the team to an offensive surge that allowed the franchise to win the 2004 CFL championship. He was fired in the 2006 season, largely in part to failing to properly utilize RB Ricky Williams. He was later hired as Roughriders head coach for the 2007 season.
On November 25, 2007, Kent Austin coached the Saskatchewan Roughriders to the 95th Grey Cup Championship beating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23–19. In doing so, Austin became the first head coach to win a professional football championship for the same team with which he won the championship as a quarterback. Interestingly, he did it in his first year as head coach, and at exactly the same stadium where he won the cup as a player, 18 years earlier. His performance as head coach won him the 2007 CFL season Annis Stukus Trophy as coach of the year.
On January 16, 2008, Austin accepted the job as Offensive coordinator at the University of Mississippi, his alma mater, to serve under head coach Houston Nutt. In 2008 Kent’s offense ranked 28th nationally scoring 32 points a game up from 20 points a game in 2007.
On January 26, 2010 Austin accepted the head coaching job at Cornell University replacing Jim Knowles who left Cornell to become the defensive coordinator for David Cutcliffe at Duke University.
On December 17, 2012 Austin signed as the head coach and GM of The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of The Canadian Football League.
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