Frank Broyles is a former NCAA football player, coach, broadcaster, athletic director for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. After a 50+ year career, Coach Broyles continues to serve the University of Arkansas and is an icon representing the entire state. Frank Broyles retired from his athletic director position at Arkansas on December 31, 2007

Broyles entered coaching in 1947 as an assistant coach under head coach Bob Woodruff at Baylor University . In 1950 Broyles followed Woodruff when the latter took the head coach position at the University of Florida. In 1951 he left Florida and returned to Georgia Tech as an offensive coordinator under Coach Bobby Dodd. Broyles left Georgia Tech in 1957 when he was offered the position of head coach at the University of Missouri–Columbia.

Broyles stayed at Missouri only one season when he was offered the position he had dreamed of having at Arkansas. During his many decades he has been offered other major coaching at leadership positions but has remained at Arkansas.

During his tenure at Arkansas Broyles coached the Razorbacks to seven Southwest Conference championships, two Cotton Bowl wins, and a National Championship (1964). He is still the winningest head coach in Arkansas football history. During the 1960s and 1970s one of college football's most intense rivalries was between Broyles' Razorbacks and the University of Texas Longhorns under legendary coach Darrell Royal.

In 1974 Broyles was appointed Men's Athletic Director of the University of Arkansas. (Arkansas had a completely separate women's athletics department from 1971 until the men's and women's programs were merged in 2008.) Broyles continued as head football coach for three years. Since stepping down as head coach the University of Arkansas men's athletic programs, under his leadership, have won 43 national championships. The Razorbacks have won 57 Southwest Conference championships and 27 Southeastern Conference championships while he has been men's athletic director.

On February 17, 2007, Broyles announced his plans to retire as Men's Athletic Director at the University of Arkansas, effective December 31, 2007, which ended the 50 years of association with the Arkansas athletic programs as either head football coach or men's athletic director.

Over thirty of his former players have also become college or professional football coaches. Broyles is known for producing high quality coaches and the prestigious Broyles Award, the annual award for best assistant coach, is named after him. Barry Switzer, Johnny Majors, and Jimmy Johnson all served under Broyles and have combined to win five collegiate national championships and six Super Bowls. Broyles' assistants have won more than 40 conference titles.

Broyles worked for nine years with the ABC network, where he served as their top color commentator for college football telecasts with play-by-play announcers Chris Schenkel and Keith Jackson.

Broyles' tenure as men's athletic director has seen the construction of world-class facilities for basketball, football, track and field (indoor and outdoor), golf, and baseball at Arkansas. Broyles was selected as the 20th century's most influential Arkansas sports figure.

Broyles is known as a fierce competitor both as a head coach and athletic director. Broyles led Arkansas out of the Southwest Conference and into the Southeastern Conference.

In 1983, Broyles was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, and in 1996, the Broyles Award was established to recognize the top assistant coaches in college football.