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Message: [QUOTE="JJReddawg, post: 853461, member: 226"] It appears that his whole family is in the Syracuse area now according to this article from June: [url]http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/index.ssf/2013/01/families_western_michigan_reun.html[/url] [I]Dawn Lester found her dream job in June 2012. She had worked in professional sports before but not for an organization like this. The Chicago Bulls are known around the world, known for the most famous player ever — Michael Jordan. Scottie Pippen, a legend in his own right, walked by her office on a regular basis. Dawn is a Senior Account Executive in Corporate Partnerships for the Bulls, and her husband, Tim Lester, was the head coach at Division III Elmhurst College. They lived with their two kids — the third is on the way and Tim has a fourth child of his own — in Chicago, where they have two houses. It seemed perfect. Then the phone rang. "I told Coach Shafer when we talked on the phone that family was the No. 1 reason I wanted to coach for him," said Tim, the new Syracuse quarterbacks coach who held the same role at Western Michigan from 2005-06. "In our business it's sometimes hard to be a family man unless you put a priority on it. It takes a special person of character to stop what you're doing every once in a while, and that was really what I learned by watching Coach Shafer at Western Michigan."[/I] [B][I]Even his wife called the decision to leave Chicago, including quitting her dream job, a "no-brainer" to reunite with a "long-lost group of friends." [/I][/B] [I]For her, the weekly wives dinner is what she missed the most about Kalamazoo. It became a tradition for all the coaches' wives to go to a restaurant while their husbands logged long hours. Friendships were built as their personal lives intertwined. So tightly knit were those relationships that Tim said his wife was more excited about the idea of reuniting with defensive coordinator Chuck Bullough's family — especially his wife Nicole — than watching him speak at the introductory press conference earlier in the week. "As soon as she logged on to the website a big picture of Coach Bullough popped up and she went crazy," Tim said. "Because that meant Nicole was coming." And that makes leaving your dream job a little easier.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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