Career
He ushered the Bulldogs football program into National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A football in 1989. Peace is an alumnus of Louisiana Technical, located in Ruston in North Louisiana. Prior to becoming the Technical head coach in 1988, he had coached at two high schools and for the rival Northwestern State University Demons in Natchitoches.
Joe Raymond Peace coaches the same way he played.
He"s a tough, hard-working individual who never gives up. -- Jimmy Johnson, coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1993 and a graduate assistant at Louisiana Technical University when Peace was a player
His father, Joe Peace, Senior
(1920–1992), a native of Magnolia, Arkansas, was a successful high school football coach from 1948 to 1975 at Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish in northeast Louisiana. He used the since discarded Notre Dame Box.
Peace, Junior., graduated from Sicily Island High School and played football under his father.
An active civic figure, Mistress Peace in 2001 lost a race for Sicily Island alderman. Peace, Junior., was first married to the former Pamela Franks, by whom he has two children, Michele Peace Gulotta (born 1968) of Plaquemine and Jay Raymond Peace (born c 1971) of North Salt Lake, Utah.
Their two sons are Ray J. Peace (born ca 1975) of Bossier City and Robert Joseph Peace (born ca 1980).
Robert Peace played football for the University of Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville, Tennessee. After their wedding, the couple resided in Austin, Texas, where Robert Peace managed a lumber company.
Phillip Fulmer and Joseph Raymond Peace were once game foes with their respective university teams. The couple has since returned to Knoxville and has two children.