How about Phillip Haywood as new Head Coach
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As one of his former players, I would recommend him for ANY JOB. He creates young men 1st, then he creates football players. One of my most favorite human beings on this planet. truly a Christian man with a leadership quality that is UNMATCHED
Ahhhh, isn't he still coaching in HS? It's extremely hard for a guy to be successful making the jump from HS to a Sunbelt team......let alone an SEC school.
But, yes, as a HS coach he's top notch.
But, yes, as a HS coach he's top notch.
There are alot of people out there that are great football coaches.
The item that gets overlooked alot, is that to succeed in the major college football you need someone who is not only a great coach, but need to be great at leading a program. Someone in HS coaching just wouldnt have that quality.
The item that gets overlooked alot, is that to succeed in the major college football you need someone who is not only a great coach, but need to be great at leading a program. Someone in HS coaching just wouldnt have that quality.
Art Briles?... No my bad he had some College experience. For some reason I thought he only had HS
Im not saying it cant be done. It would just require an incredibly unique person combined with an incredibly unique situation imo.
Haywood has a pipeline in West Virginia.
Well, most havent. The ones who have certainly havent done it on the major CFB level. Recruiting, fund raising, etc are all things HS coaches have no clue about in terms of major CFB.
Maybe theres a unique coach and situation out there. I just cant see it. Even that long shot would need to come from a very large HS in a football heavy state, and be hired at a doormat in a power conference where he doesnt have ridiculous pressure to perform quickly. I just dont see it.
Agree, for whatever reason I forgot Briles had some College experience
Exactly what I was going to post. He was a sure fire bet to be successful at Notre Dame.
Gus Malzhan was a great HS coach I believe (still uncertain of his college ability)
Phillip Haywood got his start in coaching at Meade Co. as an assistant in the early '70's. He was a pretty intense kind of coach. A Grab your face mask type, but the players loved him. I was a freshman and didn't really have him as a coach. But I remember seeing him and hearing the older players tell funny stories about how he interacted with them.
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I didn't realize he was at Meade County in the early '70's. I played for his freshman team at Prestonsburg High School in 1970. Very intense competitor and didn't put up with any nonsense.
Catscratch, was he at Prestonsburg in 1967? My High School (Augusta), went on a weekend road trip and played them and Catlettsburg High School. It was a great trip.
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As I recall, he was still playing for Prestonsburg in 1967. He was a starting QB, got injured, then lost his job to Mark Miller, who went on to play at Marshall. He was coaching our freshman team and attending JUCO at Prestonsburg Community in 1970 and I believe he graduated HS in 1969.
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Probably mid-60's. He was in JUCO in 1970 while coaching our freshman team and had to be in his early 20's then.
A buddy of mine played for him at Belfry. To say he thinks the world of Phillip Haywood is an understatement. He introduced me to him once when I went over to a game with him. We went into the locker room, and listening to Haywood talk to his team, it made this old man want go put some pads on.
He did. Then I think he had experience as a coordinator at Auburn prior, and maybe another major school. Still an incredible career path.
Gus Had 6 years experience as the OC at Arkansas, Tulsa, and Auburn before becoming the head coach of Arkansas St and now Auburn.
I knew he had alot of major CFB exposure prior to taking the head coach job at Auburn. Thanks for that info. Still, he had really humble beginnings. Hes had quite the career path.
Haywood recruits the heck out of Matewan, Williamson, and Red Jacket, WV.
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Haywood's situation mimics Bob McQueen, the former coach at Temple High School in Texas. McQueen was highly regarded around the state with multiple state titles but chose to remain a HS coach. I lived in Temple from 1984-88 while he was coach and he pretty much ran the entire town. I would guess that Haywood has a similar situation at Belfry.
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Exactly, and especially in Texas. While I was there he turned down a position on the staff at A&M, and the boosters club bought him a new boat and car. I had several friends that had played for him and went through "The Program" as it was called. No one said much about him and I think it was out of fear. From what I could piece together he was a pure SOB. Under his regime, they would start kids out playing football in the third grade and would evaluate them at the end of the season. If they had potential, the parents were pressured to keep their child playing football but if not, they would recommend that the kid pursue other endeavors. What impressed me the most was that all games were sold out and it was really hard to get tickets. The first game I saw was against Midland Lee (just like in Friday Night Lights) and Temple HS dressed 117 players.
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I think he memorized a book written by Vince Lombardi. He used to quote passages from it during skull sessions.
He graduated in 1968 I believe with my sister....he is a heck of a high school coach...but it hasnt hurt that he has had a lot of coal operator money funneling him players