Lawrence Dawsey Position: Passing Game Coordinator / Wide Receivers Coach Experience: 4th Season at FSU Alma Mater: Florida State '91

The Dawsey File
Birthdate: November 16, 1987
Hometown: Dothan, AL
College: Florida State '91
Family: wife, Chantal Dawsey; son, Lawrence, Jr.; stepdaughter, Dominique Arce

Coaching Background

• Lawrence Dawsey enters his fourth season on the FSU staff, adding passing game coordinator duties to his responsibilities as FSU's receivers coach in 2010. The additional duty is a nod to Dawsey's budding career on the sideline just seven seasons into his collegiate coaching career, where he has already established himself as an outstanding recruiter.

• Dawsey was an integral part of the Seminoles football dynasty as a player. His four seasons at wide receiver corresponded with the first four 10-win, top-five poll finishes by FSU. As a player, he was known for his work ethic, accountability, precision route-running, down-field blocking and the ability to rise to the occasion in big games. Those are the same qualities he is charged with imparting on the Seminoles receiver corps.

• Florida State's receivers have prospered under Dawsey's direction. In 2009, Rod Owens and Bert Reed became the first pair of Seminole receivers to collect at least 60 receptions each in the same season since 1995. Owens (61) and Reed (60) joined the prolific '95 tandem of Andre Cooper (71) and E.G. Green (60) as the only duos to match that standard in program history.

• Dawsey has helped build productive depth in the receiving corps. Five Seminoles in 2009 - Owens, Reed, Jarmon Fortson (45), Taiwan Easterling (35) and Richard Goodman (27) - caught at least 20 passes. FSU had not had five receivers with 20 or more catches since the 1992 season.

• The production of Dawsey's receivers has helped the Seminoles improve in total offense over of the past three seasons, including last season's 421.7 ypg average which was the best season since 2001. FSU's wideouts had a hand in quarterbacks Christian Ponder and EJ Manuel completing 67.7 percent of their pass attempts, which was the highest by the `Noles since Charlie Ward's 1993 Heisman Trophy winning and National
Championship campaign.

• In Dawsey's first two seasons at Florida State he helped Greg Carr climb the charts as one of the most productive receivers in school history. Carr finished his career with 148 catches for 2,574 yards and 29
career touchdowns.

• In 2007, Dawsey's first season, Florida State boasted three receivers - Preston Parker, De'Cody Fagg and Carr - with 700 or more receiving yards for the first time in school history.

• Dawsey's first foray into coaching came as a high school assistant at Tampa Catholic in 1998. He did not return to the sideline until serving as a training camp assistant coach with the NFL's St. Louis Rams in 2001 and returned to the high school ranks in 2002 at Blake in Tampa.

• He spent the 2003 season as a graduate assistant on Nick Saban's LSU staff, where he worked with Jimbo Fisher and also crossed paths with fellow graduate assistant and current FSU assistant James Coley. The Tigers posted a 13-1 record and won the BCS National Championship.

• Dawsey had the opportunity to work with LSU receiver Michael Clayton, who later became the No. 1 selection of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and broke several of Dawsey's rookie receiving records with the club.

• The season at LSU opened the door for Dawsey's first, full-time college position as he returned to Tampa as the wide receivers coach at USF from 2004-2006. As a recruiter, he was instrumental in landing the talent which helped the Bulls break on to the national scene. USF's passing offense also took flight during Dawsey's three seasons and ranked among the best in the Big East.

• A third-round selection by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1991, Dawsey enjoyed a seven-season NFL career. He also played for the New York Giants (1996), Miami Dolphins (1997) and New Orleans Saints (1999).

• Dawsey was the NFL Rookie of the Year by Sports Illustrated and named to the All-Rookie Team by Pro Football Weekly in 1991 after he led Tampa Bay with 55 receptions and set the club's rookie record with 818 receiving yards. Dawsey also led the team in receptions (60) and receiving yards (776) in 1992.

Dawsey's Coaching Ledger