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Norv Turner
Date of birth	May 17, 1952 (age 54)
Place of birth	Camp Lejeune, NC
Position(s)	Head Coach Offensive Coordinator Receivers Coach Quarterback
College	Oregon
Coaching Stats	Pro Football Reference
Coaching Stats	DatabaseFootball
Team(s) as a coach/administrator
1975 1976-1979 1980-1983 1984 1985-1990 1991-1993 1994-2000 2001 2002-2003 2004-2005 2006 2007-present	University of Oregon (graduate assistant) University of Southern California (wide receivers coach) University of Southern California (quarterbacks coach) University of Southern California (offensive coordinator) Los Angeles Rams (Wide Receivers Coach) Dallas Cowboys (Offensive Coordinator) Washington Redskins (Head Coach) San Diego Chargers (Offensive Coordinator) Miami Dolphins (Offensive Coordinator) Oakland Raiders (Head Coach) San Francisco 49ers (Offensive Coordinator) San Diego Chargers (Head Coach)

Norval Eugene "Norv" Turner (born May 17, 1952 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is the head coach for the National Football League's San Diego Chargers. He also has served as head coach of the Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders, and as offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, and San Francisco 49ers. He is the brother of former University of Illinois head football coach and current Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner.

Turner played quarterback at the University of Oregon. He was a coach of the USC Trojans between 1976 and 1984. Turner was the offensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys on Jimmy Johnson's staff when Dallas won back to back Super Bowls in 1992 and 1993. Turner got much of the credit for not only their success, but for helping shape quarterback Troy Aikman into a Hall of Fame player. However, he also was labeled as a problem. After Barry Switzer's firing following the successful 1997 campaign, QB Troy Aikman made many urgent demands that Turner be named head coach. When Chan Gailey was named coach, Aikman was famously unhappy, stating "They're screwing this team up."

In 1994, following his success with the Cowboys, Turner was hired as the head coach of the Washington Redskins. In seven seasons with the Redskins, he went 49-59-1. They made the playoffs only once, in 1999, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round. Following his tenure with the Redskins, Turner went on to serve as offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers in 2001 and for the Miami Dolphins in 2002 and 2003.

When the Oakland Raiders fired head coach Bill Callahan following the 2003 season, owner Al Davis hired Turner to replace him. Turner went 5-11 in 2004, followed by a 4-12 record in 2005, and was fired on January 3, 2006. During Turner's two years with the Raiders, he managed only one win against his division, the AFC West. In addition, Turner was unable to jump start an offense that, in 2005, included All-Pro wide receiver Randy Moss.

On January 17, 2006 Turner was named offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers, a reversal of roles of sorts: current 49ers head coach Mike Nolan served as Turner's defensive coordinator from 1997 to 1999 with the Washington Redskins.

On February 19, 2007 Turner was hired as the head coach of the San Diego Chargers. [1] Though he had been a finalist to assume the same position with the Dallas Cowboys, a team for which he had been the Offensive Coordinator for during the first two of three Championship seasons in the 1990s, he eventually lost out to Wade Phillips, [2] defensive coordinator of the Chargers at the end of the 2006-2007 season. He will assume the ropes of an NFL-best 14-2 record squad in the 2006 regular season with San Diego.