Another coaching stop for Dickerson

Ron Dickerson Sr. has been hired as an assistant football coach at Gardner-Webb college in North Carolina. He will coach the defensive line.

Dickerson's son, Ron Jr., is the first-year head coach at Gardner-Webb. The elder Dickerson was head coach at Lambuth University, in Tennessee, last season. He has also coached at Temple, from 1992-97, and Alabama State, 1998-99. He was drafted in 1971 out of Kansas State by the Miami Dolphins, but was injured in preseason in 1972, the year the Dolphins posted a 16-0 record. He began his coaching career after suffering the injury.

He also served as an assistant coach under Joe Paterno at Penn State, from 1985-90. From there he went on to Clemson, where he coached former Eagles safety Brian Dawkins.