Former college football head coach George O'Leary is participating in a unique event next week. The RisingSeniors Foundation is hosting a roast of the coach. 

It will be held at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Convention Center on May 20th at 7 p.m. The roast will be emceed by the Atlanta Falcons radio play-by-play man Wes Durham. 

Individual tickets are $125 and a table of eight costs $800. Proceeds benefit RisingSeniors, a group that motivates student-athletes to think about their life after sports. 

O'Leary had his most prominent coaching tenure with the Yellow Jackets. After two stints as an assistant coach at GT, he took over the program in 1994 and led them to a 52-33 record in seven seasons. 

O'Leary won Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year twice and Georgia Tech won the ACC in 1998. After two seasons as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Vikings, he went back to the college ranks to build the program at the University of Central Florida. 

O'Leary led the Knights to two Conference USA and two American Athletic Conference titles. In 2013, UCF went 12-1, won the Fiesta Bowl and finished as a consensus top 15 team in the country. 

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