Coaching Career
After college in 1954, he took an office job which paid a $6,200 salary ($53,657 adjusted for inflation), but soon quit to return to Granby High School as its junior varsity basketball coach for $3,200 per year ($27,694 adjusted for inflation). Driesell was promoted to varsity coach the following year. In 1957, he became the head coach at Newport News High School, where he compiled a 57-game winning streak.
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