Brandi Daily -- Assistant Women's Basketball Coach, Stephen F. Austin State University

(as of basketball season 2003-04) Daily came to Nacogdoches by way of Fayetteville, Ark., where she was a three-year member of the Lady Razorbacks basketball team, under former Ladyjack head coach Gary Blair. While at Arkansas, Daily was a key member of a Lady Razorback team that advanced to two Women's National Invitational Tournament Final Four appearances. In 2000, Daily captained the Lady Razorbacks to the WNIT title. Prior to the two trips to the WNIT, Daily was a member of the 1998 NCAA Championships Final Four squad, that was eliminated by eventual National Champion Tennessee. Daily also proved a success in the classroom being named to the 2000 Academic All-Southeastern Conference team.
Daily was captain for the 1996-97 Tyler Junior College basketball team. Daily earned all-conference and all-region honors during her two years at TJC.
Daily graduated from TJC with an associates of arts degree in 1997. She received a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and exercise physiology from Arkansas in 2000.

Isaac Davis -- Offensive Assistant Coach, Arkansas Baptist College Buffaloes

(as of football season 2007) Added to the coaching staff in July 2007. Played at Arkansas from 1990-93.

Matt Deggs -- Associate Head Baseball Coach, Texas A&M University Aggies

(as of baseball season 2010) Former Texarkana College head coach Matt Deggs was hired as the Arkansas baseball hitting coach and recruiting coordinator on June 26, 2002 and left for Texas A&M University on June 29, 2005.
Deggs amassed a 187-100 record in five seasons at Texarkana College and won back-to-back Texas Eastern Athletic Conference titles in 2001 and 2002. Deggs also led Texarkana to the school's first-ever Junior College World Series in 2001.
A native of Texas City, Texas, Deggs was an infielder at Alvin Junior College from 1991-92 and at Northwood University from 1993-94.
Deggs played professionally from 1994-96, logging time in the Texas-Louisiana Professional League (1994-95), the Mobile Bay Sharks (1995) and the Tennessee Tomahawks (1996) as a player/coach. While with the Bay Sharks, Deggs played for former Boston Red Sox manager and player Butch Hobson.
Deggs began his collegiate coaching experience in 1996 as a graduate assistant for Dave Van Horn at Northwestern State. Deggs spent the 1997 season as a full-time assistant as the teams' hitting coach and working with the infielders before taking over as head coach at Texarkana.

Doug Dickey -- Football / Athletic Director

*Retired as AD at the University of Tennessee in June of 2003

In 1997, he was selected as first recipient of the John H. Toner Award, bestowed on a top athletics director by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. The presentation took place at the organization's annual gathering at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
Then in 2000, the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, holding its winter banquet in Nashville, named Dickey Tennessean of the Year. The most recent addition to the bulging Dickey resume came last April when he received the Robert R. Neyland trophy for his work as head coach at Tennessee and Florida. The award was especially meaningful to Dickey because of the coach's unquenchable love for the sport of football.
Dickey, who as University of Tennessee athletics director has shepherded one of college sports' most successful programs for 17 years, joined such previous Neyland recipients as Paul (Bear) Bryant and Eddie Robinson.
His 104-58-6 overall coaching mark embraced two Southeastern Conference championship seasons at Tennessee and 19 All-America stars who played under his tutelage with the Vols or Gators.
As a player, assistant coach, head coach and administrator, Dickey has been involved with 29 bowl games beginning with the 1952 Gator Bowl in which he played quarterback for Florida.
Over a span of 37 years, Dickey has been the principal force in University of Tennessee sports, first as a coach and since 1985 directing a Vol athletic department that has been a model of consistent performance.
Keenly aware of a continuing goal to keep Tennessee in the forefront of collegiate competition, Dickey responds to the desire of fans for a strong presence on the national scene. In the most recent sports season, 2000-2001, UT's achievements were of storybook proportions: NCAA champions in track and field, College World Series in baseball, NCAA finalists in tennis, NCAA third place in swimming and diving and the Cotton Bowl in football. In addition both the basketball and golf teams participated in NCAA tournaments.
As athletic director, the 69-year-old coach-turned-administrator has been heavily involved in policy-making on the national level. For example, in a six-year term with the football rules committee, he served as chairman from 1992 through 1994. Since 1992, Dickey has been a member of the board of NOCSAE, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment. On the statewide level, Dickey has employed his administrative skills to play a key role in the building of a Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in a wing of the Nashville arena. He was the SEC representative to the NCAA's Football Issue's Committee. In addition he is on the Strategic Planning Committee of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
Dickey's service at UT encompasses responsibilities as head coach for six seasons (1964-69) and as athletics director since 1985. As coach, he put Tennessee back on the national football map with a string of productive seasons that included league championships and bowl appearances. As athletics director, he has overseen a huge facilities construction and renovation program.
Other honors have come Dickey's way in recognition of his continuing contributions to college athletics. He has been inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, the Gator Bowl Hall of Fame and the Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame.
When Dickey succeeded Woodruff as athletics director in 1985, he put a top priority on bringing UT's facilities to a level that would enable Vol coaches and athletes to compete on an even plane with their Southeastern Conference rivals. The multi-million dollar building program was a must on his agenda.
A college football coach for 22 years before moving onto the business world in 1980, Dickey became only the fourth athletic director in UT history when he was chosen to the job of overseeing Tennessee's success-oriented sports program.
Douglas Adair Dickey brought to the athletics director's job the qualities the university was searching for in a replacement for Woodruff. He had long-standing ties with Tennessee, he had been involved with college athletics for more than two decades, he had participated successfully in business and he enjoyed a reputation for total integrity.
Before taking the Tennessee post, Dickey had been for four years general manager of the Florida Tile Ceramic Centers, with headquarters in Lakeland, Fla. He previously had served the firm as its Southeast regional sales manager.
Six years after he came to Tennessee, a youthful head coach taking on the established greats of his fiercely competitive profession, Dickey left Knoxville. He answered a call from his alma mater, the University of Florida, and moved to Gainesville as head coach after the 1969 season. His nine-year record at Florida was 58-43-2, which combined with his six-year mark at Tennessee of 46-15-4, left him with overall totals of 104-58-6. Dickey closed out his coaching career by spending the 1979 season as assistant head coach at the University of Colorado.
It was Woodruff, then only a year into his athletic director's job at Tennessee, who brought Dickey, age 31 at the time, from an assistant's post at Arkansas to the demanding assignment as steward of the Big Orange football program before the 1964 season.
Woodruff had kept close tabs on Dickey from the time of the latter's undergraduate days at Florida, where Woodruff was the Gators' head coach. He detected in the lanky quarterback of his 1953 team traits that would prove invaluable if Doug were to pursue a coaching career. "Dickey was one of the brainiest quarterbacks I ever saw," Woodruff told newsmen when the announcement was made in December of 1963 that Dickey would replace Jim McDonald at the Tennessee helm.
Except for the five years he spent in business, Dickey has been around college campuses almost his entire life. He was born in Vermillion, S. D., where his father, the late Dallas Dickey, was a speech professor at the University of South Dakota. His father later was on the faculty at Louisiana State University and at the University of Florida.
Young Dickey, after playing high school football at Gainesville, accepted a scholarship to the University of Florida from Woodruff. After graduation he coached for a year at a high school in St. Petersburg, Fla., and coached at Fort Carson, Colo., while in the service. Then came an opportunity to join the staff of Frank Broyles at the University of Arkansas (1957-63). Over the next six years, Doug acquired a wealth of knowledge under Broyles, coaching defense four years and then serving as head offensive coach his final two seasons.

Milan Donley -- Assistant Track and Field Coach (Horizontal Jumps), University of Kansas Jayhawks.
 
(as of track & field season 2005-06) On Nov. 1, 2006, Milan Donley was named the new Meet Director for the Kansas Relays. Donley was the horizontal jumps coach for the Jayhawks for seven seasons.
For his efforts, the U.S. Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association named Donley the Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2005
Donley came to Kansas from East Tennessee State University where he was the head track and field and cross country coach. While at ETSU, Donley was Southern Conference Coach of the Year three times in 1996, 1998 and 1999. He guided 54 individual Southern Conference champions, 13 NCAA Qualifiers, two All-Americans and his teams set 25 school records. Donley was also coach of 13-time Southern Conference champion Taneisha Robinson, who competed in the long jump and triple jump. Robinson was also a two-time Southern Conference Athlete of the Year and two time NCAA qualifier.
Before his stint at ETSU, Donley was an assistant track and field and cross country coach at the University of Arkansas. While at Arkansas, Donley coached eight All-Americans and 15 SEC individual champions. Donley previously coached at the University of Illinois as an assistant.
Prior to Illinois, Donley coached at several other schools including Cal Berkeley, Southwest Texas State and Adams State College. While at these schools, Donley's athletes earned many accolades, including two All-American honors, one multiple national champion, an NCAA qualification and an NAIA indoor team championship in 1985.
Donley earned his level I and II instructor's certificates and was the USATF women's triple jump development coordinator from 1990-93. He has also directed several track and field camps while at Arkansas, East Tennessee State, Illinois and Adams State.
Donley coached the 1997-99 Canadian 800m champion and 2000 Canadian Olympic team member Zachary Whitmarsh. He has also received numerous coaching awards, including the Southern Conference men's and women's cross country Coach of the Year and the NAIA Women's Track Coach of the Year, for both the indoor and outdoor seasons.

Otis Douglas -- Football

Douglas enjoyed a long and colorful career as a college and professional coach, starting at Akron U. in 1939 as aide to Tommy Dowler and in 1941 and 1942 as head coach of the Zips.
After wartime service in the U.S. Navy (1942-45) Douglas served the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League as assistant coach, player and trainer from 1946 through 1948, Drexel Institute as coach in 1949, University of Arkansas as head coach 1950 through 1952, the NFL Baltimore Colts as assistant coach in 1953, Villanova University as coach in 1954 and Calgary of the Canadian Football League as coach from 1955 through 1960. Douglas' last active role in organized pro athletics was as physical fitness consultant for the Cincinnati Reds in the Spring of 1961 and the team, then managed by Fred Hutchinson, won the National League pennant. He remained with the Reds for two years.
Led Akron to a 5-10-3 record, Arkansas to a 9-21 record and Calgary to a 22-38-2 record. He graduated from William and Mary College.
Elected to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1979.

Chip Durham -- Head Baseball Coach, Nicholls State University Colonels

(as of baseball season 2010) Chip Durham was hired as head coach at Nicholls State on July 13, 2005. He spent two seasons as an assistant coach with the Northeast Texas Community College Eagles before being hired for his first head coaching job at Crowder College (2003-05). Durham came to Northeast Texas Community College from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he had been an assistant coach since 1998. The Roadrunners qualified for the Southland Conference Tournament in 1999 with a third place finish. Prior to his two years at UTSA, Durham was an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas for two seasons. The Razorbacks qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 1998 with a third place at Midwest Regional. Before going to Arkansas, Durham was a graduate assistant coach at Delta State University for two seasons, and made appearances in back-to-back Division II regional tournaments, with a third place finish in the 1996 Division II World Series. In 1992-93 he was an undergraduate assistant at Arkansas- Monticello. His playing career included two letter winning seasons at Arkansas-Monticello from 1990-92, in which he served as team captain and was a member of the Arkansas Intercollegiate All-Star Team. Durham's first two seasons of college baseball were played at Angelina Junior College in Lufkin, Texas.  A three sport letterman at Tioga (LA) High School, he played for back-to-back Louisiana High School 3-A State Championship Teams. Durham holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Arkansas-Monticello, and a Masters Degree from Delta State University.

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