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posted 07-15-2006 03:41 PM
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - ESPN college football analyst Bill Curry, a former coach at Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia Tech, accepted a job at a private school where he will teach leadership to high school students.
Curry will begin working at Chattanooga's Baylor School as executive director of the Leadership Baylor program in September. Curry said he will continue as an ESPN commentator and writer for ESPN.com, but on a limited basis.
Headmaster Bill Stacy started the leadership program last fall. "The reason I came here is the legitimacy of what Bill Stacy and his faculty have begun," Curry told the Chattanooga Times Free Press. "If we do a good job at Baylor, and we will, we can create a program worth sharing across America for what I think is the greatest deficiency in our culture: Leadership with integrity." Curry will be responsible for developing a curriculum, lining up a leadership speaker series and creating mentoring opportunities for faculty, staff, coaches and students.
Curry said recent corporate scandals are proof that such a program is needed.
"High school students are more malleable. They don't think they have all the answers as much as the college kids or NFL guys do," he said.
Stacy said Curry would be paid according to existing faculty salary levels, but he declined to disclose the amount. Curry has been a motivational speaker and college football game analyst for ESPN since 1997. Before that, he coached football at Kentucky for seven years, Alabama for three years and Georgia Tech for seven years.
He coached with the National Football League's Green Bay Packers for three seasons between 1977 and 1979.
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