By Jeff Greenberg
The Arkansas State Red Wolves completed their non-conference schedule with a hard-fought win at home against UNLV, 27-20. The win leaves the Red Wolves with a 3-1 record heading into conference play for the first time in 23 years. They begin the Sun Belt Conference season this week on the road against Georgia Southern.
By Jeff Greenberg
Arkansas State went on the road to face a tough American Conference foe in Tulsa. The Red Wolves came out of there victorious, ending a ten-year winless drought in out-of-conference road games. Following this big win on the road, here is the next installment of our season series with head coach Blake Anderson.
By Jeff Greenberg
1st Quarter: Despite not getting the final result you wanted, what did you take away from reviewing the game film this week? – “I think we saw a bunch of guys who desperately wanted to play well on that stage, and the magnitude of that atmosphere overwhelmed us a bit early on and led to us making some crucial mistakes early on in the game. When you play a team with the talent Alabama has, and they are every bit as talented as everybody thinks they are, you can’t make any mistakes because they will capitalize on them.
By Jeff Greenberg
Like many aspects of life, in order to be successful in the game of football you have to have a plan. You have to assess what you have on your own team. You have to assess what your opponent has on their team.
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By Jeff Greenberg
Our goal with http://www.undertheheadset.com is to give an unfiltered voice to football coaches at all levels. Allow them to speak their mind in an open forum that goes beyond the typical press conference. In the process, we hope fans and fellow coaches alike get to see and hear what these coaches are like after the press conference is over and the lights are turned off. No filters. No agendas. Just conversations.
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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…
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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