Mike DuBose
Mike DuBose
Mike DuBoseis an American football coach, most recently serving for Opp High School in Opp, Alabama. His most recent college coaching experience was serving as defensive line coach for the University of Memphis. DuBose came to Memphis from Millsaps College, where he was the Majors' head coach from 2006 to 2009. He resurrected the school's struggling football program by winning outright or sharing a conference title in each of his four seasons there. DuBose is best known for his four-year...
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The same things win. It doesn't matter where you coach them. The game's the same.
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I can promise you that I'm not picking up the phone and calling to find other jobs. This is what I want to do. I can finish my coaching career right here and be just as happy.
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It's more about the love of the game, and I don't mean to put that part of it down. There's nothing wrong with wanting to go to the National Football League. ... (But) there's something appealing to me to see guys working, sacrificing of themselves because they love the game.
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I did some things off the field that I don't talk about anymore, but I learned from those.
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The timing of it could not be better for myself. Not only was I interested in it, I was excited about it.
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I'm walking down three flights of stairs carrying furniture, trying to talk on the phone about the job. I've never been involved in one that was done exactly that way.
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I never really sat down with Gene Stallings and talked about the program and the things he went through, and gleaned from that knowledge. I'm not going to make that mistake again. ... There are some things that are common to all jobs, and some are unique to each situation, and those are things I want to sit down with David and talk about.
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There's some things I've done wrong that I've asked forgiveness for, and there's some things other people have done that I've forgiven them for. I have absolutely no ill feelings, no anger, no resentment for anybody that's had anything to do with the past.
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When you hear the Ole Miss people, they talk about (Vaught) the same way we talk about coach Bryant. He's a man's man and a coach's coach. He found a way to win, and he did it the right way.