"Pete Richardson" is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League and former college head coach.

Richardson played college football at University of Dayton, and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 1968 NFL Draft. He played for the Bills for three years until a knee injury ended his playing career.

Richardson embarked into a steadfast 30 plus year coaching career in the late 1970s, starting out in the high school football ranks in Dayton, Ohio, before moving up to Division II (NCAA) football in 1979 as he joined the coaching staff at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1988 Richardson became the head coach of the Winston-Salem State University Rams. He served from 1988 to 1992, where he compiled a win-loss record of 41-14-1, winning three Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) conference championships (1988, 1990, 1991) and led the Rams to two appearances in the Division II football playoffs in 1990 and 1991.

He left the Winston-Salem State Rams football program in good shape, and pursued a higher challenge

he became head football coach on the Division 1-AA level at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1993.

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He's been in our program for a couple of years.

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You can play and try to get focused for that time, but still the reality of that whole situation is once that game is over you still have to be confronted with what's going on. I think that's where the senior leadership on your football team has to come. They have to understand that we have a responsibility to reach our goals and that's to win the championship.

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You talk about a kid that worked his tail off in the weight room and in conditioning and got himself academically sound.

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It's tough to compete with $6-a-day labor.

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It will be a real challenge for us because offensively, they have some skilled wide receivers that have some size and speed and defensively they have line backers that give us a great deal of trouble.

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Our offensive unit knows he can do the things that we want him to do. Now, it's just a matter of getting the playing time, because he can execute our offense.

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Offensively we should be in good shape.

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We're going to need a lot of help on defense. We lost a lot of guys there, and I'm not comfortable with where we are, yet.

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We have to win the special-teams game.

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