Darqueze Dennard lands football coaching job overseas

The Mark Dantonio days of Michigan State football were some of the best and most fruitful in program history. The Spartans had some superstars come through the program who started off as two-star recruits and one of them was the great Darqueze Dennard.

The Georgia product was really a diamond in the rough and the staff almost missed him as they were down in Georgia scouting a different player and Dennard stood out.

And the rest is history.

Dennard went on to lead Michigan State to a Big Ten title, some key wins over Michigan, and a Rose Bowl. He also won the Thorpe Award which is given to the best defensive back in the country and was drafted in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft bythe Bengals before bouncing around to the Falcons, Cardinals, Colts, Giants, and 49ers before stepping away from the game.

Now, he's heading into coaching just months after being inducted into the Michigan State Athletics Hall of Fame. He will be headed overseas to coach defensive backs for the Prague Lions.

The coaches and owner of the Lions are American so it makes sense that they'd turn to the United States to find a key defensive coach and why not go with a guy who has won the highest award for his position in college football and who played many years in the NFL?

According to Stephen Brooks, the Lions are the Czech Republic's oldest American football team and they have won six league titles with the most recent coming in 2022. He's joining a successful organization and, who knows, this might just help him earn a coaching job in the US when he's done.