Career
Callaway, a 1974 graduate of Central High School in Macon, Georgia, played collegiately at the University of Alabama for legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant as a lineman and linebacker before graduating in 1978. Callaway is married and has three children. Callaway began his coaching career as a part of Pat Dye"s staff at East Carolina University and the University of Wyoming before following Dye to Auburn University as offensive line coach.
Callaway left Georgia in January 2007 to take the UAB head coaching position.
He had not been widely linked to any other head coaching jobs, and was considered a sleeper choice by UAB. UAB was rumored to have initially offered the job to Pat Sullivan (then UAB offensive coordinator) and later to Jimbo Fisher, leading many to speculate that the UA Board of Trustees vetoed the contract offers preventing UAB from hiring more sought after coaches and instead appointing Callaway as the new head coach as a ploy to keep the program in a lower status than Alabama"s own. Callaway was fired as UAB"s head coach on November 27, 2011, having compiled a record of 18 wins and 42 losses during his five years with the Blazers (18–42).
On February 26, 2013, Callaway was hired by WKU head coach Bobby Petrino to serve as the Hilltoppers" offensive line coach. On January 4, 2016, Callaway was hired by University of Southern California.
