Kickoff Dinner featuring Mack Brown

Name: Kickoff Dinner featuring Mack Brown
Start: 2025-08-18T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Shreveport Convention Center

Schedule

Mon, 18 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Shreveport Convention Center | Shreveport, LA

Mack Brown is a college football legend – a College Football Hall of Famer, two-time Coach of the Year and BCS National Champion – and will be the featured speaker at the 15th Annual Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Kickoff Dinner.
The 2025 Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Kickoff Dinner featuring Mack Brown is set for Monday, August 18 at the Shreveport Convention Center. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for a cocktail hour and dinner buffets will open at 6:15 p.m. The program will begin at 7 p.m. with a Q&A to conclude.
Individual tickets to the event are on sale for $50 apiece, and a table of eight is $400. Tickets can be purchased at RadianceTechnologiesIndependenceBowl.com/shop or by calling the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl office at (318) 221-0712 or toll-free at (888) 414-BOWL.
Brown has been a staple of the college football coaching world over the past 47 years with five stops in 36 years as head coach at four different universities – Appalachian State (1983), Tulane (1985-1987), North Carolina (1988-1997 and 2019-2024) and Texas (1998-2013). During his 36-year head coaching career, Brown compiled a 288-155-1 record. His 288 wins rank him seventh on the FBS all-time wins list. He is a two-time National Coach of the Year – winning the 2005 Paul W. “Bear” Bryant National Coach of the Year Award and the 2008 Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year Award. He won the 2005 BCS National Championship with the Longhorns in one of the most memorable games in college football history.
If you are interested in sponsoring the 2025 Kickoff Dinner featuring Mack Brown, contact Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Director of Partnership Development Matt Shanklin at [email protected] or call the bowl office at (318) 221-0712.