Mike McCoy (businessman)
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| Position: | Executive |
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Mike McCoy is an oil and gas businessman. He was a minority owner and vice-president of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League. He is credited for inventing the trade-value draft chart.
Pre-Football Career
McCoy attended the University of Oklahoma and obtained a degree in Petroleum Engineering.[1] Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and him, started working in the oil and gas industry in 1981, when they founded Arkoma Production Company, which they later sold to Arkla Inc.[2]
Football Executive
In 1989 when Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys franchise, McCoy became a minority owner with a 5% stake in the team. In 1990, he was named team Vice-President.[3]
In 1991 Jones and head coach Jimmy Johnson wanted to come up with a system to help them evaluate NFL draft trades quickly. McCoy invented a trade-value draft chart that assigned values to each draft pick and a numeric total for each deal. With the success of the Cowboys in the Nineties, the trade-value draft chart gained prominence in the NFL and now every team employs a version of it.[4]
In 1996, he left the Cowboys to return to the oil and gas industry.
References
- ^ "America's Owner". Retrieved January 12, 2019.
- ^ "Lone Cowboy". Retrieved January 12, 2019.
- ^ "Emmitt now only Cowboys' holdout". Retrieved January 12, 2019.
- ^ Clarence E. Hill Jr. (April 27, 2007). "Origin of the Draft Value Chart". Star-Telegram.