Joe Raymond Peace

Joseph Raymond Peace
Sport(s) Football
Biographical details
Born June 5, 1945 (1945-06-05) (age 66)
Playing career
1964–1967 Louisiana Tech
Position(s) Linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1974–1982
1983–1987
1988–1995		 Northwestern State (assistant)
Louisiana Tech (assistant)
Louisiana Tech
Head coaching record
Overall 40–44–4
Bowls 0–0–1
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse

Joseph Raymond Peace, Jr. (born June 5, 1945) is the former Louisiana Tech University head football coach of eight seasons from 1988–1995. He ushered the Tech football program into NCAA Division I-A football in 1989.

Peace is an alumnus of Louisiana Tech. Prior to becoming the Tech head coach in 1988, he had coached for the Northwestern State University Demons in Natchitoches.[1]

His father, Joe Peace, Sr. (1920–1992), a native of Magnolia, Arkansas, was a successful high school football coach from 1948–1975 at Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish. He used the since discarded Notre Dame Box. Peace, Jr., graduated from Sicily Island High School and played football under his father.[2] Peace's mother, the former Mary Sue Pipes (1925–2010), a native of Jena in La Salle Parish and a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, taught at Sicily Island High School, where her husband was head coach.[3] An active civic figure, Mrs. Peace in 2001 lost a race for Sicily Island alderman.[4]

Peace, Jr., 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 ca. 1971) of North Salt Lake, Utah. His second wife is the former Carolyn Ferguson (born 1949), formerly of Shreveport, a sister of former Buffalo Bills player Joe Ferguson. Their two sons are Ray J. Peace (born ca. 1975) of Bossier City and Robert Joseph Peace (born ca. 1980),[4] who played football for the University of Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2008, Robert Peace married the former Courtney Fulmer, daughter of Phillip Fulmer, coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, and his wife, Victoria. After their wedding, the couple resided in Austin, Texas, where Robert Peace managed a lumber company. The couple has since returned to Knoxville and has two children. [5]

Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (Independent) (1988–1992)
1988 Louisiana Tech 4–7
1989 Louisiana Tech 5–4–1
1990 Louisiana Tech 8–3–1 T Independence
1991 Louisiana Tech 8–1–2
1992 Louisiana Tech 5–6
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (Big West Conference) (1993–1995)
1993 Louisiana Tech 2–9 2–4 T–6th
1994 Louisiana Tech 3–8 1–5 9th
1995 Louisiana Tech 5–6 2–4 T–8th
Louisiana Tech: 40–44–4 5–13
Total: 40–44–4

References

  1. ^ Baltimore Sun: Joe Peace is football at La. Tech Coach turned program around
  2. ^ "Catahoula Parish History". catahoulahistory.com. http://www.catahoulahistory.com/webpage4.cfm?content=content&id=84. Retrieved July 6, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Obituary of Mary Sue Pipes Peace". thenewsstar.com. http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/dclassifieds?Dato=20100706&Kategori=OBITUARY&Class=30&Type=CAT30200&Lopenr=100700115&Selected=3. Retrieved July 6, 2010. 
  4. ^ a b "Louisiana election returns, Catahoula Parish, October 20, 2001". sos.louisiana.gov. http://electionresults.sos.louisiana.gov/graphical/. Retrieved July 6, 2010. 
  5. ^ "Party honors newlyweds Courtney, Robert Peace, May 11, 2008". knoxnews.com. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/may/11/party-honors-newlyweds-courtney-robert-peace/. Retrieved July 14, 2010.