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David Saunders
Sport(s)Football
Biographical details
BornApril 06, 1958
Douglasville, GA
Playing career
Auburn
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984-1989
1990-1992
1993-1994
1995
1996-1997
1998
1998-2002
2003-2005
2006
2010
2011-Present
Jacksonville State (DB/WR/RC)
Georgia Southern (DL)
Nicholls State (DC/DB)
Baylor (DB)
Arkansas State (DB/RC)
Tennessee (RC)
Ole Miss (RC)
Millsaps
Ole Miss (LB)
Ole Miss (ath. dept.)
Louisiana-Lafayette (CB)

David Saunders is an assistant football coach at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is currently cornerbacks coach. A position he has held since the 2011 season.

Assistant coach

Saunders is an alumnus of Auburn University. His first college coaching job was at defensive backs and wide receivers coach, plus recruiting coordinator at Jacksonville State University from 1984-1989. From 1990-1992 he was defensive line coach at Georgia Southern where he won a Division I-AA National Championship in 1990. After the 1992 season, he left to become defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach at Nicholls State University from 1993-1994. After Nicholls State, he coached one season at Baylor University as the defensive backs coach. From 1996-1997, he was both defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Arkansas State. During the 1998 season, he spend the football season at the University of Tennessee as director of on-campus recruiting before leaving to become Ole Miss' assistant to the athletics director for recruiting and coordinator of high school and community college relations from 1998-2002. Saunders returned to Ole Miss to become linebackers coach for the 2006 season. He began his third stint at Ole Miss in 2010 as administrative operations coordinator. Saunders was once named one of the nation's Top 9 recruiters by ESPN.com's Tom Lemming.

Head coach

Saunders was named head coach at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi in 2003 and held the position through the 2005 season. He had an overall record of 7-21.

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