Calvin Lane -- Football

Lane was the head football coach at Neosho (Mo.) High School for 23 years and during that time his Wildcat teams won 10 conference championships and recorded five undefeated seasons (1952, 1954, 1957, 1958, and 1964).
Upon graduation from high school, Lane headed for the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship. He was the starting quarterback for the Razorbacks as a freshman and a sophomore.
After graduating from the University of Arkansas, Lane served one year as an assistant coach at North Little Rock High School.
He went back to the University of Arkansas as a graduate assistant in physical education and he also completed his master's degree while he was there.
Lane moved on to Horatio High School as head football coach for one year. Horatio won 11 games and lost only one under the leadership of Lane.
Lane compiled a record of 157 wins, 71 losses and four ties during his football coaching career and he was a very successful track coach as well. Lane quit coaching football in 1972, and he retired from teaching in 1985.

Laura Leaton -- Volleyball

(as of volleyball season 2001) Laura Leaton is in her third year on the Boilermaker coaching staff. Leaton's duties include on-court training, recruiting and coordinating Purdue's involvement in the community.
Leaton was most recently the head coach at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. She guided the Lady Cajuns for three years, starting in 1996, and compiled a 49-53 record at the helm of the program. During her tenure, Leaton led the Lady Cajuns to the Sun Belt Conference Tournament for the first time in six years, advancing to the semifinals for the first time in school history. Prior to taking the reins at USL, Leaton worked as an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas (1993-95), where she prepared the program for its inaugural season. Her duties included recruiting, scheduling, running practices and creating fund-raisers.
Leaton also coached on the junior college level at Cabrillo College in Aptos, Calif., in 1990 and '92, and served as a site director for the Nike/Davis Volleyball Festival, the largest U.S.A.V. junior volleyball tournament in the United States, in 1993 and '95.
Leaton began her collegiate career at UC Santa Barbara, where she played outside hitter and defensive specialist for the nationally-ranked Gaucho program. She transferred to Mississippi in 1991, and completed her career with the Rebels. She received her B.A. in sociology in 1992 and a master's of education/physical education from Arkansas in 1995.

Bill Lewis -- Assistant Head Coach for Defense / Defensive Backs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish

(as of football season 2007) Bill Lewis left Miami for Notre Dame in January of 2005 after eight seasons with the Dolphins. Lewis joined the NFL coaching ranks after 32 years (1963-94) of coaching at the collegiate level.
He spent 1995 as athletic director at The Marist School in Atlanta after three seasons as head coach at Georgia Tech University from 1992-94. Prior to his stint at Georgia Tech, Lewis served as head coach at East Carolina for three seasons (1989-91), during which time he led the Pirates to an 11-1 record and a victory in the Peach Bowl over North Carolina State following the 1991 season. At the conclusion of the '91 campaign, Lewis received National Coach of the Year honors from A.F.C.A., UPI and Scripps-Howard.
Lewis began his coaching career at East Stroudsburg (Pa.) State in 1963 and made stops as defensive backs coach at Pittsburgh (1966-68), Wake Forest (1969-70), Georgia Tech (1971-72) and Arkansas (1973-76). He became head coach at Wyoming in 1977 and spent three years at the helm of the Cowboys. He began a nine-year stint at the University of Georgia in 1980 as defensive backs coach before occupying the job of defensive coordinator in his last eight seasons with the Bulldogs.
While in Athens, the Bulldogs won the 1980 National Championship and during his nine years at the school, Georgia appeared in nine straight bowl games and won three Southeastern Conference titles. He coached 23 All-SEC honorees and seven All-Americans.
Lewis was a four-year letterman at quarterback at East Stroudsburg (Pa.) State from 1959-62 and earned Little All-America honors during his playing days. In addition, Lewis spent two years in the Detroit Tigers' minor league system as a pitcher.

Don Lindsey -- Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Coach, Ole Miss Rebels

(as of football season 2001) Considered one of the nation's most respected defensive coordinators, Don Lindsey took control of the Ole Miss defense in January of 2001 when he was named to the post by Rebel Head Coach David Cutcliffe. Lindsey, who began his coaching career in 1965 at the University of Alabama under Paul "Bear" Bryant, has been a part of four national championships and 18 bowl games, including six Rose Bowls and two Sugar Bowls. He has coached 15 All-Americans and 16 players he has coached made it to the National Football League. In the collegiate ranks, Lindsey has coached at Alabama, Montana State, Washington State, Arkansas, Southern California, Georgia Tech, Missouri, and Hawaii. He coached on two different occasions at Arkansas, Southern California, and Alabama. His professional experience is with the Memphis Mad Dogs and the British Columbia Lions. Serving as defensive coordinator for Lou Holtz, Arkansas ranked first in the nation in scoring defense in 1982.

Scott Long -- Defensive Line Coach, Missouri State University Bears

(as of football season 2005) Scott Long joined the SMS coaching staff in January of 2004 after four seasons on the Jacksonville State Gamecock coaching staff and coaches the defensive line.
Long, who coached two years at Northwestern State, is a 1992 graduate of Arkansas. Prior to that, Long was the defensive line coach at Independence Junior College. He served as a graduate assistant at Arkansas for two seasons prior to his position at Independence.
A four-year starter at Arkansas, Long was a part of two Southwest Conference Championship teams. He was twice voted Defensive Player of the Game for his efforts  against TCU in 1991 and against Auburn in 1992. Scott finished his career second on the Arkansas career sack list and played in three bowl games; 1989 Cotton, '90 Cotton, and the '91 Independence. He was a free agent with the Detroit Lions in 1993.

Barry Lunney, Jr. -- Co-Offensive Coordinator / Quarterbacks Coach, San Jose State University Spartans

(as of football season 2004) Barry Lunney was a school-record setting quarterback at the University of Arkansas.
As a senior at Arkansas, Lunney and Hill were two key cogs in the school's first on-the-field win over Alabama, a Southeastern Conference west division championship and an appearance in the 1995 Carquest Bowl.
Heading into the 2004 season, Lunney will be involved in the Spartan offense as the team's quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator. In his first season at San Jose State, he nurtured the college career of quarterback Scott Rislov, who went on to become the Blue-Gray All-Star Game's 2003 "Offensive Most Valuable Player."
A two-sport athlete at the University of Arkansas, Lunney was a pitcher drafted by the Montreal Expos as a high school senior at Southside High School in Fort Smith, Ark., and four years later by the Minnesota Twins. He played one season of Class A baseball before turning his attention to football coaching.
He returned to his alma mater in 1998 as a graduate assistant and helped Arkansas to bowl-game appearances after the 1998 and 1999 regular seasons. Lunney moved to Tulsa in 2000 and spent three seasons working with the quarterbacks and wide receivers.

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