Former Baylor University head football coach Grant Teaff, who led the Bears to two conference championships, was in the intensive care unit of Providence Health Center Thursday. Teaff said he was admitted to the ICU after he blacked out Monday while walking to his car at his office adjacent to the Baylor campus. He drove himself to the emergency room, where doctors discovered he had multiple blood clots in his lungs, he said.

In a phone interview, late Thursday afternoon, he seemed in good spirits and said he expected to be out of ICU by early next week. He said he’s not currently allowed to have visitors. He said in the long term, he expects to recover and said he’ll be cheering from his hospital room Saturday when Baylor hosts former Southwest Conference opponent Rice.

Since February 1994, Teaff has been executive director of the Waco-based American Football Coaches Association. He joined the association after more than two decades as Baylor’s head football coach, from 1972 to 1992, where he chalked up a 128-105-6 record that included eight bowl appearances and two Southwest Conference Championships, ending a long drought for the Bears. He came to Baylor from Angelo State University, where he was serving as head coach.