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“A Coach’s Life” with Gene Chizik: Act 3 – The Next Journey

August 31, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

When a successful coach has a tough season it’s not because he forgot how to coach overnight. It’s hard to win in college football. There are numerous factors that go into winning a single game, let alone having a winning season. So did losing his job at Auburn mean Gene Chizik was no longer wanted in college football? Did he all of the sudden become a bad coach? Well, if the amount of people reaching out to him to come to their school and coach is any indicator, I’d say that answer was no.

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“A Coach’s Life” with Gene Chizik: Act 2 – Reaching the Pinnacle

August 29, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

Football is a sport that is played by kids of all ages, from Pop Warner to the NFL. At every level, there are head coaches, coordinators and assistants. All of these coaches have career goals like you would in any other profession. For some, they like coaching right where they are, whether it be high school, college or one of the many levels in college football. There are coaches that prefer to be an assistant or a coordinator. They like the connection they have with their specific position group. Then there are coaches that know they want to be a head coach; and they want to be a head coach and reach the pinnacle of their profession. They want to be a champion.

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“A Coach’s Life” with Gene Chizik: Act 1 – The Journey

August 27, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

Summertime is when families find time to go on vacation and spend some quality time together. The hustle and bustle of the modern world can make it hard to find that time. In the coaching world it is even more difficult for coaches and their families to find any time at all where they can be completely free from what’s going on “at work.”

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