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Do Law School Graduates Make the Best Football Coaches? They May if Your Name is Derek Dooley of Louisiana Tech

By Andis Kaulins

Derek Dooley is a Georgia Law School graduate who decided to go into football coaching after several years of practicing law at an Atlanta law firm. He is in his second year as head coach at Louisiana Tech (3-10 in 2006 under the previous coach and 5-7 last year in Dooley's first year as the head coach of the Bulldogs). This year Louisiana Tech is 5-4 with a good chance to finish 8-4 in the regular season, with at least a 7-5 season fairly assured.

Dooley is no stranger to football as he is the son of Vince Dooley, the legendary head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs football team, whose 1980 team won the national championship.

What made us perk up our ears was the Louisiana Tech 21-0 shutout of San Jose State this past weekend, a Spartan team which prior to the game sported a 6-3 record and had lost honorably to teams such as Nebraska (35-12) and ranked Boise State (33-16).

Do we have a former lawyer on his way to becoming a top college football head coach?
We definitely predict that

Full post as published by LawPundit on November 09, 2008 (boomark / email).