Education
Auburn University.
Auburn University.
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. 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 Mission" assistant to the athletics director for recruiting and coordinator of high school and community college relations from 1998-2002.
Saunders returned to Ole Mission to become linebackers coach for the 2006 season. He began his third stint at Ole Mission in 2010 as administrative operations coordinator.
Saunders was once named one of the nation"s Top 9 recruiters by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.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.