Post-coaching Career
After leading UGA to 201 victories, six SEC championships, and one national championship as head football coach, Dooley became Georgia's athletics director, and built one of the most successful athletics programs in America. Dooley briefly pursued the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate in 1986. His wife, the former Barbara Meshad, ran in the Republican Party primary for U.S. House in 2002. Dooley is a member of the Gridiron Secret Society. On December 2, 2009, Kennesaw State University hired Dooley to begin working as a consultant to KSU in the school's drive to start a football program.
Another hobby of Dooley's is gardening, about which he has published a book.
Dooley has also partnered with Mascot Books to publish 2 children's books about the UGA mascot, How 'Bout Them Dawgs! and Hairy Dawg's Journey Through the Peach State.
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