By Jeff Greenberg
That is not the case in coaching, particularly in coaching college football. Make no mistake, there is a process in moving through the ranks of college football. However, that process can take on many forms and follow different paths to the same job.
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By Jeff Greenberg
Here is Part 2 of our conversation with Appalachian State Head Coach, Scott Satterfield, on his journey in coaching.
When you think back to the days when you were an assistant, how would you have finished this sentence, “When I get my own program, the first thing I’m going to do is…”?
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By Jeff Greenberg
There’s a cliché that is passed around from time to time in different walks of life. It goes something like, “If you’ve met one ‘xyz’, you’ve met one ‘xyz’.” It speaks to the fact that we are all individuals with distinct characters, or distinctly different stories.
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By Jeff Greenberg
“There really wasn’t a choice we had to consider at that moment. Coaching is what we do and we knew we weren’t done with this profession yet.
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It’s been one year since Wendy Anderson, the wife of Arkansas State Head Football Coach, Blake Anderson, was diagnosed with cancer. It’s been quite a year since that moment. One in which there were the expected lows early in the process. However, the last year was dominated by the highs of the Andersons’ faith and the great news they experienced months later…
…It’s not an easy life, to say the least, for coaches’ children. They will change schools and hometowns constantly. They will make and lose friends every couple of years. It can be hard to have sense of continuity in their lives…
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Dear Dad,
We often get asked what it’s like for our dad to be a football coach. After all these years, it’s still a tough question to answer.
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Every Saturday afternoon in the Fall, fans flock to college stadiums all over the country to watch their favorite football team. After the game, there is usually a press conference where the head coach appears for the media and answers questions about the game or about that week’s preparation for the game. One question that isn’t usually asked is how much time the coach was able to see his family during the week leading up to that game…
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Welcome back to the second half of Part 1 in our series, The Life of a Coaching Family. The second half picks up where we left off in our conversation with North Carolina Head Coach, Larry Fedora, and his wife, Christi. They continue here on what marriage has been like in the coaching world…
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By Jeff Greenberg
The first Wednesday in February is one of the “holidays” in college football. It was National Signing Day. The day where recruiting for that year concludes with high school prospects signing with their chosen university. In the world of college football, recruiting is the lifeblood of every program. During this process coaches are going into the houses of recruits and speaking to them and their families. Part of their message, in many cases, will focus on the concept of family…
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By Jeff Greenberg
Every football coach has a goal in their career. For some, high school football is their calling, with the opportunity to help develop boys into young men. For others, the goal is to make it onto the staff of a college football program. Then there is the ultimate dream that crosses the mind of successful college coaches. “Can I make it in the NFL?”
The world today does not look like the world of old. Today’s societal “microwave mentality” demands satisfaction immediately. That mentality has carried over to college football fandom in the last twenty years, particularly when it comes to how fan bases look at their head coaches…
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