[4] Daly was a Principal Lecturer and Head of Department at the Adelaide College of the Arts and Education, which later became part of the University of South Australia, for 20 years.
Major athletics appointments included: He was Glynis Nunn's coach when she won the Women's heptathlon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
[7][9] In 1976, after Australia's poor performance at the Montreal Olympics, Daly wrote an open letter in The Australian titled Courageous Amateurs Must Fail.
This controversial letter argued that the Australian sports system was out of date and it was not the athletes and coaches' fault for poor results in Montreal.
He married athlete Judy Tapfield, a South Australian state, national and international Masters champion and a member of Adelaide Harriers, in 1976.