At the time of his death he was head football coach at Southern Oregon University, a position he had held since 2011.
Howard served as the head football coach at Oregon Institute of Technology from 1990 until 1992, when the school dropped its football program.
[2] He was later a high school coach of Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow at Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra, Florida, where his team won the high school state championship.
[3][4] He led the Southern Oregon Raiders to the NAIA Football National Championship in 2014.
In 2017, Howard died at his home at the age of 64.