[2] Blankenship played for the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane beginning in 1975 and served two stints as starting quarterback, 1977 and 1979.
[2] On June 7, 2016, it was announced that Blankenship had accepted the vacant head coaching position at Fayetteville, a Class 7A program in Arkansas.
[4] Owasso went on to win the Class 6A-1 Oklahoma State Championship by defeating Union High School 21-14, breaking the 21-year Union-Jenks streak.
[1] Blankenship's first two seasons as head coach were marked by success, including a conference championship and Liberty Bowl victory in 2012.
[12] Blankenship and his wife Angie are the parents of three sons: Josh, Caleb, and Adam, all of whom played football in high school and college.
Josh Blankenship played quarterback at Tulsa before transferring to Eastern Washington,[13] where he was a second-team Division I-AA All-American.