Posted by Rat on 3/9/2008, 2:13 pm, in reply to "Dooley to also be LA TECH AD"
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Good for Derek Dooley. Look for a more favorable home game schedule. Usually that's what I've noticed about previous A.D./Coaches. And if Derek has any questions on how to administer a Div I program he can always ask his dad.
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: Tech’s Dooley adds another line to his resume
: Second-year football coach to be named AD in
: morning news conference
: Nick Deriso
: The News Star
:
: RUSTON — Derek Dooley will have more on his
: mind next season than Xs and Os.
:
: Louisiana Tech’s second-year football coach
: will be named athletics director today. An
: 11 a.m. news conference has been called on
: campus.
:
: ADVERTISEMENT
:
: Telephone messages for Dooley, outgoing Tech
: athletics director Jim Oakes and sports
: information director Malcolm Butler weren’t
: returned. A subsequent release on Wednesday
: night said Tech officials would not comment
: until today’s media event.
:
: Dooley would continue to coach the team.
: Salary implications, if any, were unclear on
: Wednesday night.
:
: He replaces Oakes, who served as AD for 13
: years before stepping down last January.
:
: Dooley’s promotion, surprising since many
: assumed Tech would mount a nationwide search
: similar to the one that solidified his own
: football coaching candidacy, completes a
: whirlwind transformation.
:
: He has spent just one year at Tech,
: establishing a 5-7 overall record (and going
: 4-4 in the Western Athletic Conference) —
: but played for a post-season berth until the
: final week of the season.
:
: Along the way, he often spoke in the
: expansive nomenclature of an athletics
: director.
:
: "Our goal here is to relentlessly
: establish a complete program that will
: maximize the development of every student
: athlete," Dooley said last year,
: "not only in academic endeavors and not
: only athletic endeavors, but also in their
: personal growth. It’s important that every
: person in this program understand that we're
: here to develop a complete program to
: develop a complete student athlete and we're
: going to do it with a tremendous amount of
: energy."
:
: Dooley’s five-year contract, signed in
: January 2007, included a total salary
: package of $1,925,000 — making him the
: highest paid Tech football coach in school
: history.
:
: That deal calls for a base of $200,000 in
: each of the five years, with salary
: escalators of $150,000 last season, $175,000
: this year, and then $200,000 over the last
: three seasons — funds underwritten by the
: Louisiana Tech University Foundation.
:
: Dooley, an attorney, negotiated the deal and
: included steep buyouts for leaving in any of
: its first three years, beginning at $1
: million. There is no penalty for leaving in
: years four or five.
:
: "From the very first time I met Derek
: Dooley, I was super-impressed," Tech
: president Daniel Reneau said upon hiring
: Dooley. "He is a man of integrity,
: character and high intelligence. ... It’s a
: new day for Louisiana Tech, and Derek Dooley
: is the man we need to lead us into this era
: of success."
:
: Before arriving at Tech, Dooley worked the
: previous seven seasons under Nick Saban,
: including the first five at LSU. Dooley
: coached the Tigers’ running backs and was
: special teams coordinator during their 2003
: national championship season.
:
: He also worked as the team’s tight ends
: coach and recruiting coordinator for three
: seasons before following Saban to the NFL’s
: Miami Dolphins. Saban has since left pro
: football to return to the SEC as head coach
: at Alabama.
:
: Dooley played collegiate football at
: Virginia and earned his law degree at
: Georgia, then coached wide receivers at
: Southern Methodist for three seasons from
: 1997-99.
:
: He replaced Jack Bicknell, who was fired
: Dec. 4, 2006 after the Bulldogs finished
: 3-10 overall, and 1-7 in the WAC. Bicknell
: had a 42-53 record in eight seasons at the
: school.
:
: Oakes, meanwhile, leaves behind a legacy
: that rests largely in Tech’s affiliation
: with the WAC. Reneau has described the
: departing AD as "the quarterback"
: in that process.
:
: Oakes oversaw a tripling of the athletic
: budget, numerous championships and
: facilities upgrades including the completion
: of the Charles Wyly Athletic Center and
: renovations to Joe Aillet Stadium, the
: Thomas Assembly Center and J.C. Love Field.
:
: But criticism mounted late in Oakes’ tenure,
: as Tech tried but failed to move into a more
: centrally located conference affiliation.
: Meanwhile, the Lady Techsters fell from
: their position of dominance in women's
: basketball.
:
: The football program’s continued reliance on
: playing out-of-conference opponents for big
: paydays and an on-again, off-again project
: to install a new scoreboard at Aillet also
: provided a drumbeat of dissatisfaction.
:
: Reneau, however, focused on the school’s
: graduation rate, which was the highest in
: both the state and his home conference last
: year. Tech also went the length of Oakes’
: tenure without NCAA sanctions, Reneau said.
:
: Tech indicated interest in several other
: candidates with LSU ties before selecting
: Dooley as head coach — including wide
: receivers coach Todd Monken, offensive
: coordinator/quarterbacks coach Jimbo Fisher,
: and Auburn defensive coordinator Will
: Muschamp, a former LSU and Miami Dolphins
: assistant under Saban.
:
:
: Then, here is Nick DeRiso's take on the
: move:
:
: Dooley noted
: Nick Deriso
: Thursday, March 06, 2008
:
: Derek Dooley fits the profile for an
: athletic program looking to slingshot into
: mid-majordom.
:
: He's smart, driven, a can-do guy. Full of
: ideas, principles and vinegar. Just what
: Louisiana Tech needs to build on the
: platform already in place with the departure
: of athletic director Jim Oakes.
:
: That's also why Derek Dooley is no long-term
: solution, though.
:
: I just can't see him hanging around at Tech.
: He's smart, driven, etc., etc. Translation:
: upwardly mobile.
:
: Dooley's inevitable departure for Bigger and
: Better would then put Tech in the position
: of looking for two people, not an easy
: proposition.
:
: He will leave it better than he found it.
: But Derek Dooley won't be around long.
:
:
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