High School basketball coach at Cocke Co. High School for 1 year
College basketball coach at Belmont, Tennessee Tech, Vanderbilt, Trevecca, and Austin Peay
Extensive career in sports broadcasting
Radio Color Analyst for Vanderbilt basketball, OVC basketball, and TSSAA football and basketball for over 30 years
In addition to football and basketball, has called the TSSAA State Golf and Bowling championships for the TSSAA NFHS Network
Has served as Director of Sports Medicine at Baptist Hospital
Created a partnership with TSSAA that provided trainers and sports medicine staff at all of its state championship events
Sponsored a Student Summer Leadership program called SASI that led to the Right Team Student Services program that is still an integral part of TSSAA today and is now run by his cousin, Stephen Bargatze