Ralph Hood, CSP Ralph Hood, CSP - Professional Speaker & Writer That’s what Oprah said about Ralph Hood, CSP, after Ralph was a guest on her show. Who are we to argue with Oprah Winfrey? He is, indeed, a funny man. Ralph is also an award-winning columnist (he writes for several publications), a salesman and sales manager (he sold airplanes, for crying out loud!), a teacher (he taught college-level aviation management) and a professional public speaker who has entertained and enlightened audiences from Hawaii to Spain, and from Fairbanks to Puerto Rico. Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), National Speakers Association Past member, National Ethics Committee, National Speakers Association Past president of Alabama Speakers Association Member, Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame Past National Marketing Mentor, AOPA Project Pilot listen to Ralph Hood Vince Dooley An outstanding defensive back at Auburn University, Dooley captained the team in 1953 and played in the College All-Star Game the following August. He then served in the Marine Corps for two years. In 1956, Dooley became an assistant coach at Auburn and was freshman coach at the school for three seasons before taking over as head coach at the University of Georgia in 1964. Dooley coached at Georgia through the 1988 season, compiling a 201-77-10 record for a .715 winning percentage, including a 9-10-2 mark in post-season bowl games. He was consensus coach of the year in 1980, when Georgia won the national championship. During his twenty-five years as coach, Georgia had only one losing season and won three Southeastern Conference championships. Dooley retired from coaching after the 1988 season but remains at the school as athletic director, a position he assumed in 1979. He ranks 10th all-time in NCAA Division I coaching victories. College Football Hall of Fame Barbara Dooley Barbara Dooley does not fit the mold. She is franker and funnier than almost anyone. She works harder, entertains harder and has lived more fully than most. /She has also played one of lifeís toughest roles for over thirty years: the wife of a successful college football coach. It has been, at times, a lonesome life: loving but seldom seeing her workaholic husband; raising her children by herself; planning Christmas holidays around whatever bowl game the team was invited to; watching from a distance her husbandís success and adulation. There were times when only sheer determination, backed by a wonderful sense of humor, kept her going. Her book, Put Me In Coach, is electric with hundreds of Barbaraís stories about joy, anguish, frustration and hilarity of being the wife of a football coaching legend. But each of these stories tells a single story about a woman with the will and courage to step out of that a shadow and become a confident, accomplished woman. If you like humor, get ready to laugh. If you are easily moved to tears, you will find your eyes brimming. Barbara has raised four children. She has run for a seat on the Georgia House of Representatives. She is in great demand as a banquet speaker throughout the Southeast.