The Young Coach

Good analysis...I agree with you. I think Langham Creek would be a good prospect.....would be tough and a challenge but very rewarding. Are they looking for a HC or an OC? Yep, look on Ft Bend ISD and Cypress-Fairbanks ISD web site Thank you Scalp 'em. Application is complete!

Good analysis...I agree with you. I think Langham Creek would be a good prospect.....would be tough and a challenge but very rewarding. Are they looking for a HC or an OC?

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Howdy friends. Can anybody tell me some things about Stafford?

He left a 10th GRADE OC job (Shepton in Plano) to go to Duncanville in time to help install a VARSITY offense during spring ball....AFTER spring break. Just to clear that little bit of confusion up.

I'll still be around. And I am very happy for Coach Faircloth. He is a good coach. Garrett knows that God is in control of his life and His plans for him are much greater than he could ever imagine. Evidently, he still has some more lives to touch in Duncanville. That is what coaching is all about, not the X's and O's. Our life on Earth is very short compared to the time spent in eternity. The measure of a great man is not what he does while on this planet, but what he leaves behind. All great coaches, like Garrett, influence young people and old alike on a daily basis. That is their calling. Anyway, I will keep up with the Indians, since they seem to be part of my family now and I wish them the best of luck in the spring learning the new offense and defense. Honor, Pride, Tradition!!! Scalp 'em Indians!!!

PN-G should be in it if the right coach is hired.

No he didn't. He is currently in Dallas at a clinic.

Garrett has done a LOT more than that. Did you forget that he coached college football for seven years? Including being an OC? From what I remember, Garrett had to go to the jr. high level there in Plano because he had been coaching college and wasn't even certified to teach yet. If you want to know how good of a coach he is, why don't you call Mike Hughes at Plano West, or Jeff Dicus at Duncanville....the committee did....and they were told that he is definitely ready to be a head coach.

I agree with you. He just wants a raise. Plus, PN-G doesn't want an old guy. They just reassigned one of those.

He was there last week.

I think Tomlin sums it up the best: Just a few hours after touching down in Tampa, Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin and some of his top players met the media to talk about this weekend's big game. As the youngest head coach to lead his team to a Super Bowl, it wasn't surprising that one of the first questions Steelers Tomlin faced when he went before the media centered around his age. But Tomlin was quick to point out that age is not an issue when it comes to his relationship with his team. Tomlin told reporters, "I think relationships with players are personality things and not age things." "I think it's in vogue right now to talk about the youth of coaches, being able to relate to today's athlete and so forth," Tomlin added, "I don't know if I buy into the concept that today's athlete are any different than they were some 20, 30, 40 years ago. I'm a traditionalist in that way and I think that people that have a way with people and can communicate with people and teach people and convey messages to people – they can do it at 35, 45, 55, or even 71, such as the case with Dick LeBeau. I think it's a personality thing and not an age thing." Tomlin went on to add that it wasn't his goal to form "meaningful, warm and fuzzy relationships" with the team when he took the Steelers head coaching job two years ago. "It wasn't my intention to go about breaking through to the team," Tomlin told reporters. "I have a job to do as the coach; they have jobs to do as players; and I knew that just over time, that we would get to know one another and have a level of comfort and that I wasn't going to do that day 1, day 2, day 3 or day 10 on the job – that it was something that was going to occur over time." "I just knew that they would occur eventually," Coach Tomlin added, "And I went about the business of the things that I needed to do on a day-to-day basis to make sure that our program was up and running the way that I desired it to." Tomlin went on to say that he's always looking to improve. "I'm always going to be open and willing to change if it produces better results. Like every year that I've been in this profession, I analyze the things that I've done and how I potentially could have done some things better to produce a better outcome… I'll always be searching for the ceiling in terms of putting our team in the best position to perform." As for how it feels to make it to the big game, Tomlin says he's embracing all that comes with it. Ultimately though, "We're down here to play. We're down here to win!" [Hidden Content]

Luckily none of you are on the hiring committee. They obviously saw something in him or they wouldn't have interviewed him.

The only thing in life that you can be 100% sure about is death and taxes. Even Tom Landry started out somewhere. Tex Schramm gave him a shot after he played on a championship team and was assistant coach on a championship team. He had never been a head coach when he took over the Cowboys.

You must not know too much about football. It takes every spoke on the wheel to win championships. A great head coach is only as good as his assistants. There are some assistant coaches out there that are a helluva lot better than some head coaches.