David Saunders (American football coach)

David Saunders
Biographical details
Born	April 6, 1958 (age 66); Douglasville, GA
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984-1989	Jacksonville State (DB/WR/RC)
1990-1992	Georgia Southern (DL)
1993-1994	Nicholls State (DC/DB)
1995	Baylor (DB)
1996-1997	Arkansas State (DB/RC)
1998	Tennessee (RC)
1998-2002	Ole Miss (RC)
2003-2005	Millsaps
2006	Ole Miss (LB)
2010	Ole Miss (ath. dept.)
2011-2014	Louisiana-Lafayette (CB)

David "Sarge" Saunders was an assistant football coach at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette before resigning in November of 2014.

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.

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.