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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Welcome to the David Chadwick Show. David and
I thought it appropriate as we begin football season to
replay coach Chad Greer's interview over Memorial Day as he
talked about developing young boys into men through faith and sport.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hivery one, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk
eleven n ninety nine to three WBT. Welcome to the show.
In case you don't know, this is a faith and
values program that tries to intersect faith and values with
what's going on in our culture locally and globally. It's
been a pleasure doing the show now for over twenty
five years. Thank you listeners for joining me on a
weekly basis. Thank you as well to Perry's Fine Jewelry
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for your sponsorship of the show. Also, Happy Memorial Day
weekend to all of you. I hope you'll take some
time today if you can, to reach out to those
you know who are veterans who potentially or actually gave
their lives for the freedoms of our country. It's a
special weekend to memorialize, to remember those who did pay
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potentially the ultimate sacrifice for our land. I know I
have a ninety eight year old father in law who
is one of the few living World War II submarine veterans,
And it's just such a wonderful weekend to be able
to say to him, Harper Brain, thank you for your
service to our country. But today I want to talk about, well, honestly,
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high school football because it is one of the interesting
subjects for me that's out there. And my guest today
is Chad Greer, who is the head football coach at
Providence Day School, multiple state championships, multiple recruits going to
Division I schools, a man of faith himself, will talk
about that too, but I want to also talk about
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what in the world's going on with high school football
and all of the nil and transfer portal stuff that
even now is going down to that level as well.
Chad Greer, thank you for being with me today.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Thanks for having me. I really appreciate your time having
me on.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Thank you Chad for being here. And let's talk about
your history. Just tell us about who you are, your background,
where you came from. I know you're a native Charlotte teen.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Aren't you born and raised Charlotte? Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And you quarterbacked Charlotte Latin School. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I did so born and raising Charlotte. My parents went
to Harding.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I have aunts and uncles that went to East and Independence,
and you know, really uh to watch the city grow
and change. I remember my dad when the Panthers first
got here. We were like first in line to get
season tickets and then he was such a proud thing
from that first game at Old Ericson Stadium and he
just stood up with tears in his eyes. He thought
it was such a great thing that our city had
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an NFL team, and you know, we he was. He
was military, he was Army. My granddad's the cbe in
the Navy, had uncles in the Army and the Air Force,
and you know, it's just a cool thing to remember.
And he passed unfortunately nineteen ninety nine. Were really young
my age actually.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Right after the Panthers became a team, so that wasn't
that much afterwards.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We passed away at four years after.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I remember him yelling at Tim Biakabutuka about running east
and west. He was going to good north and south,
but he was. He was so proud of that and
proud of our city. And I think I've got a
lot of that in me. Just loved being from Charlotte
and proud of how the city's grown.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, and so again you you went to Charlotte Lattin.
Is that what I remember?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
My mom was a career teacher in CMS, and I
actually went to South Back. I went to see us
all the way through my sophomore year. I went to
South Back and then went to Charlotte in my junior
senior year and had a great experience there as well.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
What happened after that? Post grad?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Went to University of Richmond and played there for two years,
and I transferred to East Carolina and finished my football
and schooling at East Carolina.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Did you know then that you wanted to be a
high school coach?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, I wanted to be the NFL quarterback.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Was that was one hundred percent what I thought God's
playing was for me from the time I was like
seven years old, literally and just you know what did
the cards? I think God had had a different plan
for me. And I think that as I got older,
matured and I really tried to seek his will, I
found my way to coaching, and it clearly has been
I believe divinely interviewed. The success that gets a tribute
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to me is really because of so many others, but
it's also because I believe that I'm doing what he
wants me to be doing where he wants me to
be doing it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, we'll talk to us about the different places where
you coached and your development to the place where you
are right now.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So I was in business for about twenty five years,
mostly in IT related companies, and you know, it was
very ambitious in that regard. I mean, my my granddad
was a dock manager at at a dairy my you know,
my dad was the first one to go to college
with on the GI bill. So for me, it was
my dad kind of put us on a different path.
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My brothers and I about we're going to go to college.
My mom was an educator, so the whole thing was,
you know, we grew up thinking we're going to college. So,
you know, coming through that process with you know, what
do we want to be when we grow up kind
of thing, it changed from uh, I'm gonna be an
athlete to hey, I'm not gonna be an athlete. But
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I had a back, good, great background education where I
could say, hey, I'm gonna do well in business. And
I really pursued business with the intention of being a
CEO of a Fortune five hundred company, and I coached as
a hobby. I used to play a lot of basketball,
played a lot of golf, and I gave that up
to become a coach.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And that really was.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
A story probably for a book or a make believe
movie the way it went down. You know, I'd coached
at Charlot Latin with coach Max who was my mentor.
I'd coached South Lake Christian. I'd coached at Western Guildford
High School come out of college. But my first real
head coaching jobs at Davidson and Day started to program
from scratch and that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Was That was like four straight state championships. Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
We had three in a row first three years, which
is really you can't make that up. And then we
were runner up and then we want another one, and
yeah that God said, hey, it's time for me do
something else.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, you went from Davidson Day to a school on
coastal North Carolina?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Is that right done?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Charleston Oceanside? Okay, yeah, that was I was never leaving Charleston.
That was one of those deals where you know, we
felt like if I felt like God had intended me
to start Davidson Day and kind of give up basketball
and golf to coach and have the success we had.
I also had to believe that it was time to go.
It was also ordained, and ended up going to school
never won.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
A game we had.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I'd quit my job job to just decide to see
if I would like coaching as much. If I had
to do it, versus got to do it, and we
moved to Charleston and was never ever going to leave.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, when we come back, let's talk about the move
from Charleston to Providence Day which, as I've read some
of your online literature and the stuff written about you,
you didn't really want to come back here. You had
this beach life and love that beach life, and that's
but all of a sudden you felt drawn back to
Providence Day School and here you've been the head coach
for several years with great success once again, and I
want to talk about that. I want to talk about
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your son, what it's like to coach in NFL quarterback son,
and what is going on in our world today in
high school athletics. I'm David Chadwick. This is News Talk eleven,
ten ninety nine three WBT Will be right back. That's
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my friend Travis Green. And Travis, we are ready to
continue the show.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk
eleven and ten nine nine three WBT. And I can't
imagine the day without God's love. I can't make it
for one second without it. My guest today is Chad Greer.
Chad is presently the head football coach at Providence Day
School here in Charlotte, multiple state champions has a wonderful
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history with players in college right now, But before we
get to PDS, Chad, you're in Charleston and you're coaching,
You're on the beach, you're having the time of your life.
Your fun is multiplied, and you don't want to leave,
and all of a sudden and you get this phone
call saying, hey, would you come be the coach at
Providence State School? Talk about that, Well, that's that's true.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I was never ever playing to leave Charleston, and I
was living what I thought was my very best life.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And Dallad, my three older.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Boys were growing and gone will it was at the
time at West Virginia, and Nash and Hayes were off
in l A doing their craziness living the world they
live and the life they live out there and.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Real quickly as a social media thing for them.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
There was an app called Vine that's now defunct, but
my son Nash was the most followed person in the
world on Vine, and he took that. And he's done
movies and I mean he walked the run way for
Doce Cabana, Milan and Paris and fashion weeks he's lived.
I mean, I've been to the White House Press correspondence
dinner with him. I've been to the Grammys with him.
I mean, it's crazy. Then his brother, Hayes, my third son,
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you know, was right there with Nash, and he became
had his own like twenty one city national tour. Like
the little show he did. He was the youngest male
contested everyone dancing with the stars. Just craziness how all
this happened.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And then somebody told me, your family is just an
interesting study of how God uses different people in different ways, no.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Doubt, And you know, never never planned any of it. Never,
you know, could have predicted that any of that would
have happened. But we're at a place where the boys
are settled in La will is settled in Morgantown, and
you know, the David to Day thing had just kind
of run its course.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And so I told Nahla my wife.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I said that she's a very godly woman and just
you know, it makes me better every day. And I said, hey,
where do you want to live? And she's from Vera Beach,
Florida at the Beach and my favorite place in the
world was Charleston. She loved Charleston. So we found an
opportunity of school as a charter school that had had
a year of football that didn't win a game.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We kind of been blown out every game. Excuse me.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
And they said I had a chance to go on
their coach. So I said, we just took a flyer
on it. And I said I didn't didn't want a
job other than I just wanted to coach if I
had like to see if I like to do it
as much as.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If I had to do it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
First I got to do it, and man, I fell
in love with the school and the principal there and
the kids. The families lived in a great place. I
met a guy that really took care of us, and
we had a place. It's called Toler's Cove, but it's
right about Sullivan's Island. So I could walk to Sullivan's
Island to the beach and one way, I could walk
to food and line of music the other way and
I literally could fish off the back of my little
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where I lived. I could grill and have a the
cast net. I mean, just was never ever going to
leave that place. And then you know, when you tell
God you got life figured out, he tends to tell you, hey,
hol I got.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Said, don't don't do that chat I can tell you.
Don't tell God what to do.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, no, And he gave me the blessing I didn't
know I needed. I was so, I was fifty years
old and came home and practice one night and I
was said in a in a in a presentation kind
of format that she was pregnant. And I was like, wow,
that was shocking to me. I didn't think that was
even possible, and it certainly wasn't part of the plan
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I had for the rest of my life. And so, uh, men,
I you know what an incredible blessing has turned out
to be. So we had Hank and you know, through
that time, Providence Stay called and asked if I wanted
to come coach, and you know, I think I'm the
smartest guy in the world, but I could do simple math,
and I started figuring out old I was going to
be when he was in middle school, and I said, man,
it might be great to raise him in a place
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like that. I always had such a great opinion of
Providence Day from the outside, you know, going to Latin.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I had great friends at BITTPD.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And so we know we took a I would say
took a flyer. I think we prayed on it really
hard and felt lad to come to Province Day and
it's been everything that I'd hoped it would be and
then some Most importantly, we knew that we wanted Hank
to go to school there, and he just finished his
first year and had an amazing experience and he loves
to go to school because the people there are so great.
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He just the community at Province Day is a special place.
Has been a really such a blessing for me and
my family be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, let me take a step back, Chad, and for
those just jumping on board, my guess is Chad Greer
Today he's the head football coach at Providence Day School,
local high school that's won multiple state championships. Just had
a great successful story your faith journey. How did that begin?
And how's it being expressed today?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You know, it's it's crazy how vividly I remember this.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I was seven years old at Babla Baptist Church of
Margaret Wallace Road up in Matthews and my granddad was
in a wheelchair, but he was a deacon in the church.
And I think I had my one year pen for going.
I mean, never missed a Sunday going my grandparents and
they made the invitation when I was seven, and I
walked out.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And Pastor Airwood, you know, I got saved.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And you know, from that point forward, I felt like
there have been so many times I've tried to leave God,
and I feel like in my walk has been more
like a sign wave than you know, the steep curves
should be in growth, and He's never let go of me.
And I just think there in the times I've been
most happy and fulfilled in my life, I know what
I've been closest to my faith walk in my prayer
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life with God. And went through some bomps man some
really tough times, you know, family wise and some other things,
and I had somebody leave a book on my doorstep
one day. Still to this day, don't know who it was,
but it was The Purpose Driven Life Book by Rick Warren.
And I did that book as it said. I took
the fifteen minutes basically each one chapter of it, you know,
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fifteen minutes, and did the work in it. And somewhere
in that forty days my life started changing. And I
don't know which day it was, but it just it
started happening. And so since that time, what I do
now is I start my day every morning with one
chapter of the Bible. I read it crying a lot
of mean not chronologically, but from front to back. And
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so there's a level hundred and nine chapters in the Bible.
It takes me about three and a half years to
read it start to finish. And on my fourth time,
I'm in Isaiah right now. It's amazing. I'm having to
take notes. I show you my phone. It's crazy because
I started doing on the notes section, I would take
notes and I've got it filled up so about it
jammed my phone, so I had to start doing again.
And it's crazy how much that I feel like I missed.
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I've read this thing. This is my fourth time how
did I miss this or how did I not? So
every time I read, I feel like I'm growing and learning,
and even at my age, which I look in the
mirror sometimes and these kids and I'm trying to impact
is you know, I'm like, man, I'm getting up there.
I don't it looks like that, but I really try
to use what I learned every day to become a
better man and a better coach and better example for
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those guys.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Do you feel like your faith is accepted by those
players your coaching and or their parents or the administrators
as well, because sometimes people think there's such a dichotomy
between faith and actual practice in our culture. Are you
experiencing that?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And I'm really fortunate with that. I mean, at Davidson Day,
it was something that we started that program from scratch.
Dave Sorepka and William Stein Are and I really on
an empty wire school in a cardboard box in a
half finished room with that school, and we're gonna start
football from scratch. And we said, if we're gonna do it,
it's got to be bigger than football. Because every coach
we had at david To Day was volunteer. Nobody did
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it for money did it because we believe we can
impact kids with a game. So we create a mission
statement in three goals and seven core values. And that's
how the football program we have when we caught our
football family was built. And we took that same blueprint
to Charleston at Ocean Side and we brought it back
to Providence Day, you know ocean Side. It was funny
because the principal who I had, she was She's Puerto Rican,
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she came to the States at nineteen, didn't speak English,
and she has three advanced degrees now, loves kids, an
incredible administrator, but you know nothing about sports. And she
she basically said, hey, you take care of sports and
bad and I'll take care of the academics in school.
And we just had this great partnership. But when I
took the job, and she tried taught me out of it,
but she said she was asking me like, well, what
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do you need? And I think she was expected me
to negotiate salary. And I said, the only thing I'm
asking for is that I'm going to be able to
pray with the kids. And she said that we live
in the Bible. Bet I don't care pray all you
want so it was great coming to Province. Day is
a little different. I mean, you know, it's I had
to kind of dip my toe into that, I think,
because you know, you don't know, and I didn't negotiate
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that upfront.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I probably should have.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
The fact is the Proverb's day is pro everything, which
is not code for anti Christian, which some places are
pro everything kind of become anti Christian, right, it's not
the case. They really are, and they've been very supportive
and we have a lot of strong Christians on campus,
but we you know, the point is to be respectful
of everyone, and that's my my My faith is the
way I express my faith is that I don't I'm
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not called to judge anyone. I'm called to love and
I'm called to accept and I'm called to be an
example of the love that my father and Savior gave
to me. So that's how I express I do pray
with the kids, and we have expressions of faith for
for any faith. I don't try to, you know, cram
it to anybody's throat, but I think if I can
do it the right way by example, then I can
impact if even one kid, then I think it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, well, you are an example, whether you like it
or not, and kids look up to you and for
you to be able to plant seeds of faith in
their hearts, you don't know when they'll bloom, that's what
they might have a great impact later on.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, I believe that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think that's that's what I see myself as you know,
the pair of a thrown that spread the seeds, and
I scatter them in all kinds of terrain, and some
grow quickly and some maybe never, or some you know,
years before I'll ever know what, if it even happens.
But I do believe that I've been called to do that,
and I don't try to. I tell kids that say,
I can't save you. But so what I can do
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is I can express what I feel and believe, and
then if that God will water nurture that. And if
you individually, if a kid tries to invest in it,
you know, then that growth will happen in his journey
with God.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And in God's timing. I had the one's phrase I
love is I'm in sales, God's in management. All I
can do is throw the seeds. Is God's job to
draw people unto himself. My guest today is Chad Greer.
He's the head football coach at Providence Day School, greatly
successful in his endeavors.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Chad.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
When we come back, let's talk about your son NFL quarterback,
what that was like, But mostly let's move into what's
going on in the high school area with n I
L and other things like that. I'm David Chadwick. Will
be right back.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
The heart of the Christian faith is that message that
Jesus is alive. And if he's alive, really, folks, we
don't have to fear anything. He controls everything. I'm David
Chadwick and this is News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine
three WBT. Welcome back to the show. My guest, they
had football coach at Providence Day School, Chad Greer. It's
been a pleasure getting to know Chad through the years
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and just a expect you so much as a coach,
as a man, and as a person a christ follower
as well. But I want to shift a little bit
and talk with you about one of your sons was
an NFL quarterback and was greatly successful in high school.
What was that like as a dad overseeing that particular endeavor.
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I know I had two kids that were Division IE athletes.
And I remember coaching my son, David. I was telling
you about this before the show in AAU basketball. I
played basketball and I know the game real well. And
I remember after that experience thinking your son better be
the best player on the court, or you better not
coach your son talk about that, would you, yeah? Or
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the worst or the worst player on the court.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, right yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
If you're not careful, parents'll take the joy out of coaching,
for sure, well intentioned.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Otherwise, coaching Will was I don't.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Think I appreciate it because it is much in the
moment because he was my son, and whatever the standard
of the program was, which was high, he had to
me or exceed that in every way and there was
no shortcuts. And you know, to be a thirteen fourteen
year old kid, uh, starting with a dad that's a
very type a aggressive, intense coach and probably even more
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definitely more so than I even am now hard hard
a teenager kind of going through life at that point,
and you know, and we had family issues, I mean,
going through a divorce and a custody battle, and you know,
and here's this kid trying to just grow up and
be a kid and I want to play football and
won't play football and basketball and baseball and anything else
with the ball.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
But he was truly a very gifted athlete.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He did some things, you know, growing up that I
was a young parent and he was the first one,
and my friends didn't have kids yet, and I didn't
really appreciate fully how uniquely gifted he was athletically. It's
comical to me sometimes when I but here, like in
the draft stuff like, well, you know that they would
use a term athletic for other kids and not for him.
I'm like, man, the kid three sixty dunks of basketballs
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he can he can run ban a three nine nine
on laser at Nike at the opening on a five
teen to five shuttle.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
That's unheard.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I mean, just he's an incredibly athletic kid. And we
used to always joke or not so much on who
his real daddy is. But he must have been heck
of the athlete because I sure couldn't do all that stuff.
Yeah uh no, but he's He was fun to watch
and the great thing was as hard as it was,
maybe that freshman sophomore year. His junior year, we really
started to turn the corner and he had this phenomenal
season in his senior year. It was like he was
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a little boy again. We were just best friends and
we become again friends again as UH. And I'm still
always going to be his dad. But our relationship now
is he's thirty years old, he has two daughters. He's
going to the seventh year in NFL down in Dallas.
I just moved and bought a house there, And I mean,
I just remember talking to him yesterday. He was talking
about things he's doing with Dak Prescott and UH and
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then just Joe Milton they brought in, and how he
feels responsible to help develop this guy.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And he's the backup quarterback for the Cowboys, now, is
that correct?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's correct? Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
And with the Panthers for some number of years.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
He was drafted by the Panthers and was here two years,
and he was with Dallas two years, and he bounced
around down three or four other places than he resigned
with Dallas.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Well, he was actually in Philly last year.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
And real credit to Will, I think is that when
he got the chance to get back to Dallas, Uh,
he knew that if he said the Eagles, these guys
really might win the Super Bowl and you know, I'd
be kind of cool to be part of that, and
he was really close with some of the kids and
other players and the coaches, and but he felt like
it was the right long term decision to go back
to Dallas. Well, the Eagles voted to give him a
Super Bowl ring he left, So that's I think that's
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really the thing about Will is he's made the league
this song because he really is good in the room.
He's a he's a almost a quasi coach, and he
just he's a good human. People like to be around Will.
He's a lot more steady and calm than you know,
I'm very you be pretty intense. I think Will pretty
much just rides everything out, you know, very very calmly.
And that's one of his real gifts in auditioned it
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being a pretty freak athlete.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Well, it's been fun to watch his success collegiately and
then in the pros. But it's I'm sure dog eat
dog in the NFL, and you never know what's going
to happen there.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
It's a business.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
But you know, like you were saying before, you know,
we started this thing at David and Day not really
knowing what we were doing and we had great success.
And you know when your son, you're coaching your son
and you're trying to hold him the standard. He becomes
the National High School Player of the Year, and like
Pray Magazine was the one I knew. I remember we
went to New York for the presentation they did at
the Hall of Fame weekend. So Anthony Munos is the moderator.
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All these guys in there, the Hall of Fame jackets.
I'll be guys I grew up idolizing as a kid
thinking Almst is so cool, and they're watching his highlights
and then presenting him with the National.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
High School Player of the Year award.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Well, my son Nash had gone with us too, the
because it was like that he was the plus one
that was me. Will and Nash went up for this
and we were going out of the stuff, out of
the presentation in the Times Square, this gaggle of girls
like starts looking and they start yelling. They come and
running at us, and I could see Will. We bought
him a suit, you know, so he kind of perked
up a little bit, thinking, oh man, this is really
a big deal. And they blew right by him and
(24:57):
ran right to Nash.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Like O, this is your other son of the social
media star.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
So we'll realize really quickly that is the best high
school football player in the country. He was by far
the third most popular kid in the family. He goes
on to the Florida and he had some great success early,
went through some adversity, transfers to West Virginia, has a baby,
and finishes fourth in the Husman gets drafted to third.
I mean, so he's had this just incredible series of
(25:25):
things that kids dream about, but he's handled it with
such grace and humility that I mean, I'm really proud
of him and the father and the husband. He is
so committed to being every day well.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's neat. I wrote a book years ago called My
Father My Friend. It was about my dad and how
I went from him being my father this awesome figure,
to being my really really close friend. As the years
go by, it sounds like that's what your experience of.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Two hundred percent. I was so proud of him talking yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
He just talking through some of the things he's doing,
like with Dak and Joe, and he just he's happy
and it's just really cool to see your kid grow
up and be happy.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, you're only as happy as your unhappiest child. And
if they're happy, you're happy. That's the bottom line. Well,
let me shift gears on you, sir. High school football,
high school basketball, the n i L and transfer portal
that has just disrupted at least collegiate athletics like we've
never seen before. Is that filtering down to your level
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as well?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
The ripple effect is and the impact of all those
things is real. I've said kind of from beginning and
I still feel this way that I think the NIL
for high school kids is a bunch ado about nothing.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I think it's it impacts very few kids.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I think it could be done smartly to impact more
kids that need it in a positive way. But it's
really if you're that elite, five star kind of kid,
there's something in it for you. But I mean we're
talking a handful of kids really, and the kids that
are need that's you know, there's really to me, the
best use of this would be in these smaller communities
(26:56):
where maybe they're economically depressed. The Friday night Lights thing
is still a big deal, and they sell one hundreds
of thousand dollars of ads on these video boards and
you know the community thing matters. Well, there's a play
there that I would think that you could do something
with that money to impact kids in a positive way.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I mean you buy.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Them cleats or equipment or you know, computers or you
know those kinds of things, but that, you know, really
what's happening. But then I in high school, for the
few that get it, is no different than what's happening
now in college. I mean in terms of you know, hey,
just we're giving you money.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
And did the high school players have agents now?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah? And the elite ones do again not the elite ones. Yeah,
it's very few.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
And and honestly, at first I was like very against that, thinking, man,
this is not what you know AU basketball. In fact,
college COAE football coach used to come in and recruit
and they would say, I don't ever want this to
be a basketball I don't want to deal with the hamdler,
the intermediate galn with a. I just the only sport
anymore that's recruited out of the high school really is football.
(27:58):
Everything else is gone through clubs. I mean literally, I
mean you get recruited down high school coaches can impact
that and help, but you really get recruited from your club.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And summer teams.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The I think, uh, you know where we are with
INIL now is the colleges have these things called collectives,
which are still changing, but you know they have this
pool of money that gets handed out for name, image
and likeness, which is not pay for play, not it's
supposed to be. Yeah, I think that's what it kind
of became. Yeah, and you know high schools there's no collectives,
(28:30):
there's no privacy day to have a pot of money.
I think people are afraid what came out. Oh, the
private schools are going to go buy all these kids,
and they know we're not. I mean, you still have
to apply to get into school. I mean there's no
free admissions, there's no.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And the standards are high, very high, and.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
There's no scholarships. And there's merit base I mean or
not merit based. Excuse me, the opposite of it basis
need based. So you felt the fast Fund, You go
through that process, if you qualify, you get it. But
in AIL does impact that. There's no there's no place
for in IL and high schools that looks like what
it looks like in college.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
But you've had a couple of guys who are very
high recruits who's gotten millions from college? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, in college, not in high school. I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Is there somebody somewhere that's gotten a million dollars in
high school? Maybe I'm not aware of it. I mean,
certainly our guys who was at that level didn't get.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That, but they get it in college when they signed
with that school.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yeah, in I offer high school the average an idea
in high school like sixty bucks when they did a
study on it, h the cheeseburger down the street somewhere.
But when you get to college, that's a different story.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And do you have schools that bid against one another
that you have a kid that one school offers a million,
one school offers a million five? Is that going on?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Oh? Yeah, that stuff happens.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I mean in the transfer portal, happens when kids are
leaving there getting bought out of the portal.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I mean there's a lot of that going on.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I mean, wow, Well, when we come back, let's let's
unwrap that a bit more and let's just see how
you coach as a person of faith amidst this kind
of environment, and are you still able to do what
you really love to do and that's just influenced kids
for their future in order to be all that God
wants them to be. Chadgreer is my guest today. He's
(30:08):
the head football coach of Providence Day School. We're talking
about nil, We're talking about faith in the high school arena.
I'm David Chadwick and we will be right back.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Christ is my fond fine day. You're rock don wa
y'all said everything round me said, I've never.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Been moral thud are clue.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
My Favjeeesus He's not. He's faithful to Janvation.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Or we have the firm foundation of Jesus Christ guiding
our lives and when things get rough and difficult, we
always can know He is our firm foundation. However, you one.
I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk eleven, ten
ninety nine three WBT. Welcome back to the show. My
guest Chad Greer, the head football coach at Providence Day School.
And Chad, let's wrap up the previous conversation because I
(32:43):
want to go to one other place before we have
to end the show, and that is basically what I'm
hearing from you is that in the high school level
the whole nil Getting a lot of money to these
high school kids really isn't happening that much except just
for the elite of the elite. They're getting the million
dollar plus offers from schools, but generally they are the exception,
(33:04):
not the rule.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Well, they're getting that money and the league guys are
getting in college. And again, if it's happening in high school,
I've not seen that yet. I'm sure maybe somewhere it has,
but anecdotally it's it's the things I'm aware of, and
then the kids I've seen have access to all.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
It's just not it's not that big. Okay, well that
was the.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Big thing I wanted to get across. Today, Let's shift
gears and you do a really neat I would call
it a ministry called G seven. Talk to our listeners
about that.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah, So we started. My son and I started G
seven when he was still in college. Actually I started,
I said as a when I got out of business
and became a coach full time, I recognize I'm not
really gonna have anything to leave to my kids, and
I really wanted to leave something back. And so he
splarted as I hed, I'm gonna start this business of
trade quarterbacks and that's kind of what I do and I,
(33:51):
you know, on the side, and so I said I'll
do this, and then well I could do it together,
and he was excited about we'll train quarterbacks together. It
kind of only started as that. And then as as
he's grown his faith and I think we start talking
more about it, it'll be just like, let's do with
this what God wants us to do with it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And we started this G seven seven on seven.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Club basically, and it's like an AU basketball kind of club,
if you will. And we've had you know, two to
three hundred kids a year playing seven on seven in
this have a jamboree. Big part of things. We give
every kid in the program a Bible. We try to create, uh,
we have scripture, we have a verse in our jerseys.
I mean, we try to represent our fate through ball.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Good for you, I'm wonderful for you. I mean I
want to applaud you and say good for you, Chad
Greer to be able to use your position to influence
younger kids for the Lord.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Well, I feel weird, thank you, Well, thank you for Look,
we're just trying to be in God's will and do
we think is best. I've been so blessed, my kids
have been so blessed, and I really don't feel like
I deserve the things that have happened to me, and
I certainly.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I don't feel like I get a lot of credit
for being this.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
You know this the success we've had in high school football.
At first, I'm very aware that it's because I've surrounded
myself with great assistant coaches that work with me, not
for me, to impact kids and use the game to
do that, and also been blessed with just great kids
and families that buy into what we're doing. But my
big message with coaching, and we took it to G seven,
(35:18):
is you know, I have these seven core values we
talk about in our program. The last one I'm a winner.
And I like to ask is what do you think
I'm a winner means? And sometimes it gets lost. I
have to continue to reiterate the message. But it's not
about winning games. I don't have a goal to win
a game. I mean, we have three goals. The first
was to win kids. If you win enough kids, winning
game takes care of itself, and that's been our philosophy.
But I'm a winner to me, is I get so
(35:42):
almost emotional about how many teenagers and young people I
see with self harm and depression and suicide. I just
don't understand that, and it really hurts me personally. Part
we had a family member that went through some of that,
and you know, for me, I want kids to know
they were created perfectly in God's image with no defects.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
You're exactly what you're supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
And in sports kid, i'm not big enough, fast enough, No, no,
you're not too tall, short, fat, skinny, black, white, green,
that you were created perfectly in his image with a
plan to be great and a plan to prospect you,
not to harm you. That's the message I want to
get across the kids. They're confidence shouldn't come because they
did something great and bald, because that's that's a good feeling.
It feels good as fleeting because I could tell you, hey,
(36:24):
I love you, great job, that was aweso great play,
and you feel great, and then the next time you
screw it up, I'm gonna yell at you, I'm gonna
get on you. And if that feels bad, You're confidence
waves like that. You're you're never gonna you know, You're
you're gonna live that kind of up and down life
versus your kind that feels good, it feels bad, but
the truth is your confidence comes. You're a child of God,
created perfectly in his image with a great plan. And
so that that kind of took us to G seven
(36:46):
to say, how many kids can it probams that we
got a lot of kids from great families. They survived
COVID just fine. You know, that's kind of when this
thing they took off for us was was with COVID.
There are a lot of kids got lost in COVID,
didn't have access to computers, have access to Wi Fi,
just literally didn't have extra food. A lot of these
kids would eat in the almost the lunch program or
(37:08):
breakfast program at schools. So we said, how can we
impact you know, we're still going to do ball, and
do ball seriously because that's kind of my ethos to
get kids to come near me, right, I mean now
looking at me going, hey that's a cool looking guy.
I want to go be with him. It's that, Hey,
this guy knows ball and he can help me maybe
you know, to get better or achieve my goals. And
I think that's how God uses me with football to
reach kids. But you know, we figured that let's see
(37:31):
if we can reach more kids with us, and so
it can't really make this too much of a shorter story, sorry,
but we got into this whole thing with G seven
to grow it through seven on seven reach other kids
and kids from Title one schools. We found coaches at
those schools don't have resource and so a guy asked
me for all kicking balls and I was like, well,
what do you want kicking balls for? And he's like, well,
(37:52):
I need some. We can't really afford game balls in
our budget. So we started this thing. We started buying
game balls and saying, hey, look, you know, I'll call
a coach and say, coach, I'd like to bring you
contenue game balls for your season. Well what's the catch,
you know, and you know, are you come to recruit
my kids or what we're really doing?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I said, well, the catches.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
I want to be able to put a Bible on
the hand of any kid that will take one in
exchange for the balls. And every coach I've made that
call to us says when can you get here?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
So and then.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
We we've been able to grow that just this past year.
We in fact, I've got today, I'm taking twenty helmets
to Chambers. New coach at Chambers need to state needed
some helmets. And we've been you know, blessed. Our organization
is growing. Now we're getting more support, we're able to
do that. I got a call from Harding High School's
coach that they don't have enough helmets for their freshman programs.
(38:38):
So I actually working today with Right I'll try to
figure out to buy helmets for Harding. So God's going
to continue to grow this, I think as long as
we can continue to stay true to what we're trying
to accomplish. To spread the love of football is a
way to impact kids for Jesus.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Wow, Chad Greer, head football coach at Providence Day School,
How exciting that is. And Chad, we've had somebody listening
in our show. Granger Bard. He who's been shadowing me.
This week. He's going to North Carolina on a swimming scholarship. Granger,
just take a quick moment. Here's what I want to
ask you to do. Tell us about what's going on
with the students at Providence Day School other schools, about
(39:13):
their desire to know the Lord, know his word. You're
leading a Bible study of how many kids?
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Yes, sir, so, I've been leading a Bible study in
the home of one of my friends for since January
of this year, and it started with just me and
two other kids, and it's grown to We've had over
twenty eight people come each of the last six weeks.
And I just feel like there's a serious revival coming
among the youth here in Charlotte and just so unexpected
(39:41):
but so grateful to see it grow in this way.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So I've got a football coach over here who's distributing
Bibles to kids and talking about his faith openly. I've
got a swimming scholarship winner here who's one to you
unc leading a Bible study of thirty kids. You know what,
I've got hope for the high school level, don't you chat?
And it just it sounds like a lot of good
things are going on. Granger, you as well. You have
hope as.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Well, Yes, sir, I think this generation can often get
a bad rap, but there's so much to be hopeful
for and so many.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
People are willing to make a difference.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
And I'm sure coach Chad Greer knows the same with
his team.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Everyone. Thank you for listening. Chad thank you for being
with me today. Granger you as well. It has been
great spending the week with you listeners. May the Lord
Jesus bless you and keep you. May the Lord make
his face to shine upon you, and may you know
his great peace. May you know his plan for your life.
May you know that he has a purpose that's beyond
anything you could ever know. And may you trust him
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in that because he always desires to give us a
future and a hope. Believe trust There's a lot of
great things going on in our culture for the Lord.
I'm David Chadwick. This is News Talk eleven, ten ninety
nine three WBT talk with you all next week. SA
Good morning, Welcome to the David Chadwick Show. David and
I thought it appropriate as we begin football season to
replay coach Chad Greer's interview over Memorial Day as he
talked about developing young boys into men through faith and sport.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hivery one, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk
eleven n ninety nine to three WBT. Welcome to the show.
In case you don't know, this is a faith and
values program that tries to intersect faith and values with
what's going on in our culture locally and globally. It's
been a pleasure doing the show now for over twenty
five years. Thank you listeners for joining me on a
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(00:45):
for your sponsorship of the show. Also, Happy Memorial Day
weekend to all of you. I hope you'll take some
time today if you can, to reach out to those
you know who are veterans who potentially or actually gave
their lives for the freedoms of our country. It's a
special weekend to memorialize, to remember those who did pay
(01:09):
potentially the ultimate sacrifice for our land. I know I
have a ninety eight year old father in law who
is one of the few living World War II submarine veterans,
And it's just such a wonderful weekend to be able
to say to him, Harper Brain, thank you for your
service to our country. But today I want to talk about, well, honestly,
(01:29):
high school football because it is one of the interesting
subjects for me that's out there. And my guest today
is Chad Greer, who is the head football coach at
Providence Day School, multiple state championships, multiple recruits going to
Division I schools, a man of faith himself, will talk
about that too, but I want to also talk about
(01:51):
what in the world's going on with high school football
and all of the nil and transfer portal stuff that
even now is going down to that level as well.
Chad Greer, thank you for being with me today.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Thanks for having me. I really appreciate your time having
me on.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Thank you Chad for being here. And let's talk about
your history. Just tell us about who you are, your background,
where you came from. I know you're a native Charlotte teen.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Aren't you born and raised Charlotte? Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And you quarterbacked Charlotte Latin School. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I did so born and raising Charlotte. My parents went
to Harding.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I have aunts and uncles that went to East and Independence,
and you know, really uh to watch the city grow
and change. I remember my dad when the Panthers first
got here. We were like first in line to get
season tickets and then he was such a proud thing
from that first game at Old Ericson Stadium and he
just stood up with tears in his eyes. He thought
it was such a great thing that our city had
(02:44):
an NFL team, and you know, we he was. He
was military, he was Army. My granddad's the cbe in
the Navy, had uncles in the Army and the Air Force,
and you know, it's just a cool thing to remember.
And he passed unfortunately nineteen ninety nine. Were really young
my age actually.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Right after the Panthers became a team, so that wasn't
that much afterwards.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We passed away at four years after.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I remember him yelling at Tim Biakabutuka about running east
and west. He was going to good north and south,
but he was. He was so proud of that and
proud of our city. And I think I've got a
lot of that in me. Just loved being from Charlotte
and proud of how the city's grown.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, and so again you you went to Charlotte Lattin.
Is that what I remember?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
My mom was a career teacher in CMS, and I
actually went to South Back. I went to see us
all the way through my sophomore year. I went to
South Back and then went to Charlotte in my junior
senior year and had a great experience there as well.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
What happened after that? Post grad?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Went to University of Richmond and played there for two years,
and I transferred to East Carolina and finished my football
and schooling at East Carolina.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Did you know then that you wanted to be a
high school coach?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, I wanted to be the NFL quarterback.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Was that was one hundred percent what I thought God's
playing was for me from the time I was like
seven years old, literally and just you know what did
the cards? I think God had had a different plan
for me. And I think that as I got older,
matured and I really tried to seek his will, I
found my way to coaching, and it clearly has been
I believe divinely interviewed. The success that gets a tribute
(04:12):
to me is really because of so many others, but
it's also because I believe that I'm doing what he
wants me to be doing where he wants me to
be doing it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, we'll talk to us about the different places where
you coached and your development to the place where you
are right now.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So I was in business for about twenty five years,
mostly in IT related companies, and you know, it was
very ambitious in that regard. I mean, my my granddad
was a dock manager at at a dairy my you know,
my dad was the first one to go to college
with on the GI bill. So for me, it was
my dad kind of put us on a different path.
(04:47):
My brothers and I about we're going to go to college.
My mom was an educator, so the whole thing was,
you know, we grew up thinking we're going to college. So,
you know, coming through that process with you know, what
do we want to be when we grow up kind
of thing, it changed from uh, I'm gonna be an
athlete to hey, I'm not gonna be an athlete. But
(05:08):
I had a back, good, great background education where I
could say, hey, I'm gonna do well in business. And
I really pursued business with the intention of being a
CEO of a Fortune five hundred company, and I coached as
a hobby. I used to play a lot of basketball,
played a lot of golf, and I gave that up
to become a coach.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And that really was.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
A story probably for a book or a make believe
movie the way it went down. You know, I'd coached
at Charlot Latin with coach Max who was my mentor.
I'd coached South Lake Christian. I'd coached at Western Guildford
High School come out of college. But my first real
head coaching jobs at Davidson and Day started to program
from scratch and that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Was That was like four straight state championships. Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
We had three in a row first three years, which
is really you can't make that up. And then we
were runner up and then we want another one, and
yeah that God said, hey, it's time for me do
something else.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, you went from Davidson Day to a school on
coastal North Carolina?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Is that right done?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Charleston Oceanside? Okay, yeah, that was I was never leaving Charleston.
That was one of those deals where you know, we
felt like if I felt like God had intended me
to start Davidson Day and kind of give up basketball
and golf to coach and have the success we had.
I also had to believe that it was time to go.
It was also ordained, and ended up going to school
never won.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
A game we had.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I'd quit my job job to just decide to see
if I would like coaching as much. If I had
to do it, versus got to do it, and we
moved to Charleston and was never ever going to leave.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, when we come back, let's talk about the move
from Charleston to Providence Day which, as I've read some
of your online literature and the stuff written about you,
you didn't really want to come back here. You had
this beach life and love that beach life, and that's
but all of a sudden you felt drawn back to
Providence Day School and here you've been the head coach
for several years with great success once again, and I
want to talk about that. I want to talk about
(06:59):
your son, what it's like to coach in NFL quarterback son,
and what is going on in our world today in
high school athletics. I'm David Chadwick. This is News Talk eleven,
ten ninety nine three WBT Will be right back. That's
(08:08):
my friend Travis Green. And Travis, we are ready to
continue the show.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk
eleven and ten nine nine three WBT. And I can't
imagine the day without God's love. I can't make it
for one second without it. My guest today is Chad Greer.
Chad is presently the head football coach at Providence Day
School here in Charlotte, multiple state champions has a wonderful
(08:44):
history with players in college right now, But before we
get to PDS, Chad, you're in Charleston and you're coaching,
You're on the beach, you're having the time of your life.
Your fun is multiplied, and you don't want to leave,
and all of a sudden and you get this phone
call saying, hey, would you come be the coach at
Providence State School? Talk about that, Well, that's that's true.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I was never ever playing to leave Charleston, and I
was living what I thought was my very best life.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And Dallad, my three older.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Boys were growing and gone will it was at the
time at West Virginia, and Nash and Hayes were off
in l A doing their craziness living the world they
live and the life they live out there and.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Real quickly as a social media thing for them.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
There was an app called Vine that's now defunct, but
my son Nash was the most followed person in the
world on Vine, and he took that. And he's done
movies and I mean he walked the run way for
Doce Cabana, Milan and Paris and fashion weeks he's lived.
I mean, I've been to the White House Press correspondence
dinner with him. I've been to the Grammys with him.
I mean, it's crazy. Then his brother, Hayes, my third son,
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you know, was right there with Nash, and he became
had his own like twenty one city national tour. Like
the little show he did. He was the youngest male
contested everyone dancing with the stars. Just craziness how all
this happened.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And then somebody told me, your family is just an
interesting study of how God uses different people in different ways, no.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Doubt, And you know, never never planned any of it. Never,
you know, could have predicted that any of that would
have happened. But we're at a place where the boys
are settled in La will is settled in Morgantown, and
you know, the David to Day thing had just kind
of run its course.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And so I told Nahla my wife.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I said that she's a very godly woman and just
you know, it makes me better every day. And I said, hey,
where do you want to live? And she's from Vera Beach,
Florida at the Beach and my favorite place in the
world was Charleston. She loved Charleston. So we found an
opportunity of school as a charter school that had had
a year of football that didn't win a game.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We kind of been blown out every game. Excuse me.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
And they said I had a chance to go on
their coach. So I said, we just took a flyer
on it. And I said I didn't didn't want a
job other than I just wanted to coach if I
had like to see if I like to do it
as much as.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If I had to do it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
First I got to do it, and man, I fell
in love with the school and the principal there and
the kids. The families lived in a great place. I
met a guy that really took care of us, and
we had a place. It's called Toler's Cove, but it's
right about Sullivan's Island. So I could walk to Sullivan's
Island to the beach and one way, I could walk
to food and line of music the other way and
I literally could fish off the back of my little
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where I lived. I could grill and have a the
cast net. I mean, just was never ever going to
leave that place. And then you know, when you tell
God you got life figured out, he tends to tell you, hey,
hol I got.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Said, don't don't do that chat I can tell you.
Don't tell God what to do.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, no, And he gave me the blessing I didn't
know I needed. I was so, I was fifty years
old and came home and practice one night and I
was said in a in a in a presentation kind
of format that she was pregnant. And I was like, wow,
that was shocking to me. I didn't think that was
even possible, and it certainly wasn't part of the plan
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I had for the rest of my life. And so, uh, men,
I you know what an incredible blessing has turned out
to be. So we had Hank and you know, through
that time, Providence Stay called and asked if I wanted
to come coach, and you know, I think I'm the
smartest guy in the world, but I could do simple math,
and I started figuring out old I was going to
be when he was in middle school, and I said, man,
it might be great to raise him in a place
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like that. I always had such a great opinion of
Providence Day from the outside, you know, going to Latin.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I had great friends at BITTPD.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And so we know we took a I would say
took a flyer. I think we prayed on it really
hard and felt lad to come to Province Day and
it's been everything that I'd hoped it would be and
then some Most importantly, we knew that we wanted Hank
to go to school there, and he just finished his
first year and had an amazing experience and he loves
to go to school because the people there are so great.
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He just the community at Province Day is a special place.
Has been a really such a blessing for me and
my family be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, let me take a step back, Chad, and for
those just jumping on board, my guess is Chad Greer
Today he's the head football coach at Providence Day School,
local high school that's won multiple state championships. Just had
a great successful story your faith journey. How did that begin?
And how's it being expressed today?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You know, it's it's crazy how vividly I remember this.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I was seven years old at Babla Baptist Church of
Margaret Wallace Road up in Matthews and my granddad was
in a wheelchair, but he was a deacon in the church.
And I think I had my one year pen for going.
I mean, never missed a Sunday going my grandparents and
they made the invitation when I was seven, and I
walked out.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And Pastor Airwood, you know, I got saved.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And you know, from that point forward, I felt like
there have been so many times I've tried to leave God,
and I feel like in my walk has been more
like a sign wave than you know, the steep curves
should be in growth, and He's never let go of me.
And I just think there in the times I've been
most happy and fulfilled in my life, I know what
I've been closest to my faith walk in my prayer
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life with God. And went through some bomps man some
really tough times, you know, family wise and some other things,
and I had somebody leave a book on my doorstep
one day. Still to this day, don't know who it was,
but it was The Purpose Driven Life Book by Rick Warren.
And I did that book as it said. I took
the fifteen minutes basically each one chapter of it, you know,
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fifteen minutes, and did the work in it. And somewhere
in that forty days my life started changing. And I
don't know which day it was, but it just it
started happening. And so since that time, what I do
now is I start my day every morning with one
chapter of the Bible. I read it crying a lot
of mean not chronologically, but from front to back. And
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so there's a level hundred and nine chapters in the Bible.
It takes me about three and a half years to
read it start to finish. And on my fourth time,
I'm in Isaiah right now. It's amazing. I'm having to
take notes. I show you my phone. It's crazy because
I started doing on the notes section, I would take
notes and I've got it filled up so about it
jammed my phone, so I had to start doing again.
And it's crazy how much that I feel like I missed.
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I've read this thing. This is my fourth time how
did I miss this or how did I not? So
every time I read, I feel like I'm growing and learning,
and even at my age, which I look in the
mirror sometimes and these kids and I'm trying to impact
is you know, I'm like, man, I'm getting up there.
I don't it looks like that, but I really try
to use what I learned every day to become a
better man and a better coach and better example for
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those guys.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Do you feel like your faith is accepted by those
players your coaching and or their parents or the administrators
as well, because sometimes people think there's such a dichotomy
between faith and actual practice in our culture. Are you
experiencing that?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And I'm really fortunate with that. I mean, at Davidson Day,
it was something that we started that program from scratch.
Dave Sorepka and William Stein Are and I really on
an empty wire school in a cardboard box in a
half finished room with that school, and we're gonna start
football from scratch. And we said, if we're gonna do it,
it's got to be bigger than football. Because every coach
we had at david To Day was volunteer. Nobody did
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it for money did it because we believe we can
impact kids with a game. So we create a mission
statement in three goals and seven core values. And that's
how the football program we have when we caught our
football family was built. And we took that same blueprint
to Charleston at Ocean Side and we brought it back
to Providence Day, you know ocean Side. It was funny
because the principal who I had, she was She's Puerto Rican,
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she came to the States at nineteen, didn't speak English,
and she has three advanced degrees now, loves kids, an
incredible administrator, but you know nothing about sports. And she
she basically said, hey, you take care of sports and
bad and I'll take care of the academics in school.
And we just had this great partnership. But when I
took the job, and she tried taught me out of it,
but she said she was asking me like, well, what
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do you need? And I think she was expected me
to negotiate salary. And I said, the only thing I'm
asking for is that I'm going to be able to
pray with the kids. And she said that we live
in the Bible. Bet I don't care pray all you
want so it was great coming to Province. Day is
a little different. I mean, you know, it's I had
to kind of dip my toe into that, I think,
because you know, you don't know, and I didn't negotiate
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that upfront.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I probably should have.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
The fact is the Proverb's day is pro everything, which
is not code for anti Christian, which some places are
pro everything kind of become anti Christian, right, it's not
the case. They really are, and they've been very supportive
and we have a lot of strong Christians on campus,
but we you know, the point is to be respectful
of everyone, and that's my my My faith is the
way I express my faith is that I don't I'm
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not called to judge anyone. I'm called to love and
I'm called to accept and I'm called to be an
example of the love that my father and Savior gave
to me. So that's how I express I do pray
with the kids, and we have expressions of faith for
for any faith. I don't try to, you know, cram
it to anybody's throat, but I think if I can
do it the right way by example, then I can
impact if even one kid, then I think it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, well, you are an example, whether you like it
or not, and kids look up to you and for
you to be able to plant seeds of faith in
their hearts, you don't know when they'll bloom, that's what
they might have a great impact later on.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, I believe that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think that's that's what I see myself as you know,
the pair of a thrown that spread the seeds, and
I scatter them in all kinds of terrain, and some
grow quickly and some maybe never, or some you know,
years before I'll ever know what, if it even happens.
But I do believe that I've been called to do that,
and I don't try to. I tell kids that say,
I can't save you. But so what I can do
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is I can express what I feel and believe, and
then if that God will water nurture that. And if
you individually, if a kid tries to invest in it,
you know, then that growth will happen in his journey
with God.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And in God's timing. I had the one's phrase I
love is I'm in sales, God's in management. All I
can do is throw the seeds. Is God's job to
draw people unto himself. My guest today is Chad Greer.
He's the head football coach at Providence Day School, greatly
successful in his endeavors.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Chad.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
When we come back, let's talk about your son NFL quarterback,
what that was like, But mostly let's move into what's
going on in the high school area with n I
L and other things like that. I'm David Chadwick. Will
be right back.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
The heart of the Christian faith is that message that
Jesus is alive. And if he's alive, really, folks, we
don't have to fear anything. He controls everything. I'm David
Chadwick and this is News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine
three WBT. Welcome back to the show. My guest, they
had football coach at Providence Day School, Chad Greer. It's
been a pleasure getting to know Chad through the years
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and just a expect you so much as a coach,
as a man, and as a person a christ follower
as well. But I want to shift a little bit
and talk with you about one of your sons was
an NFL quarterback and was greatly successful in high school.
What was that like as a dad overseeing that particular endeavor.
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I know I had two kids that were Division IE athletes.
And I remember coaching my son, David. I was telling
you about this before the show in AAU basketball. I
played basketball and I know the game real well. And
I remember after that experience thinking your son better be
the best player on the court, or you better not
coach your son talk about that, would you, yeah? Or
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the worst or the worst player on the court.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, right yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
If you're not careful, parents'll take the joy out of coaching,
for sure, well intentioned.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Otherwise, coaching Will was I don't.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Think I appreciate it because it is much in the
moment because he was my son, and whatever the standard
of the program was, which was high, he had to
me or exceed that in every way and there was
no shortcuts. And you know, to be a thirteen fourteen
year old kid, uh, starting with a dad that's a
very type a aggressive, intense coach and probably even more
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definitely more so than I even am now hard hard
a teenager kind of going through life at that point,
and you know, and we had family issues, I mean,
going through a divorce and a custody battle, and you know,
and here's this kid trying to just grow up and
be a kid and I want to play football and
won't play football and basketball and baseball and anything else
with the ball.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
But he was truly a very gifted athlete.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He did some things, you know, growing up that I
was a young parent and he was the first one,
and my friends didn't have kids yet, and I didn't
really appreciate fully how uniquely gifted he was athletically. It's
comical to me sometimes when I but here, like in
the draft stuff like, well, you know that they would
use a term athletic for other kids and not for him.
I'm like, man, the kid three sixty dunks of basketballs
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he can he can run ban a three nine nine
on laser at Nike at the opening on a five
teen to five shuttle.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
That's unheard.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I mean, just he's an incredibly athletic kid. And we
used to always joke or not so much on who
his real daddy is. But he must have been heck
of the athlete because I sure couldn't do all that stuff.
Yeah uh no, but he's He was fun to watch
and the great thing was as hard as it was,
maybe that freshman sophomore year. His junior year, we really
started to turn the corner and he had this phenomenal
season in his senior year. It was like he was
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a little boy again. We were just best friends and
we become again friends again as UH. And I'm still
always going to be his dad. But our relationship now
is he's thirty years old, he has two daughters. He's
going to the seventh year in NFL down in Dallas.
I just moved and bought a house there, And I mean,
I just remember talking to him yesterday. He was talking
about things he's doing with Dak Prescott and UH and
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then just Joe Milton they brought in, and how he
feels responsible to help develop this guy.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And he's the backup quarterback for the Cowboys, now, is
that correct?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's correct? Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
And with the Panthers for some number of years.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
He was drafted by the Panthers and was here two years,
and he was with Dallas two years, and he bounced
around down three or four other places than he resigned
with Dallas.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Well, he was actually in Philly last year.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
And real credit to Will, I think is that when
he got the chance to get back to Dallas, Uh,
he knew that if he said the Eagles, these guys
really might win the Super Bowl and you know, I'd
be kind of cool to be part of that, and
he was really close with some of the kids and
other players and the coaches, and but he felt like
it was the right long term decision to go back
to Dallas. Well, the Eagles voted to give him a
Super Bowl ring he left, So that's I think that's
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really the thing about Will is he's made the league
this song because he really is good in the room.
He's a he's a almost a quasi coach, and he
just he's a good human. People like to be around Will.
He's a lot more steady and calm than you know,
I'm very you be pretty intense. I think Will pretty
much just rides everything out, you know, very very calmly.
And that's one of his real gifts in auditioned it
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being a pretty freak athlete.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Well, it's been fun to watch his success collegiately and
then in the pros. But it's I'm sure dog eat
dog in the NFL, and you never know what's going
to happen there.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
It's a business.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
But you know, like you were saying before, you know,
we started this thing at David and Day not really
knowing what we were doing and we had great success.
And you know when your son, you're coaching your son
and you're trying to hold him the standard. He becomes
the National High School Player of the Year, and like
Pray Magazine was the one I knew. I remember we
went to New York for the presentation they did at
the Hall of Fame weekend. So Anthony Munos is the moderator.
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All these guys in there, the Hall of Fame jackets.
I'll be guys I grew up idolizing as a kid
thinking Almst is so cool, and they're watching his highlights
and then presenting him with the National.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
High School Player of the Year award.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Well, my son Nash had gone with us too, the
because it was like that he was the plus one
that was me. Will and Nash went up for this
and we were going out of the stuff, out of
the presentation in the Times Square, this gaggle of girls
like starts looking and they start yelling. They come and
running at us, and I could see Will. We bought
him a suit, you know, so he kind of perked
up a little bit, thinking, oh man, this is really
a big deal. And they blew right by him and
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ran right to Nash.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Like O, this is your other son of the social
media star.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
So we'll realize really quickly that is the best high
school football player in the country. He was by far
the third most popular kid in the family. He goes
on to the Florida and he had some great success early,
went through some adversity, transfers to West Virginia, has a baby,
and finishes fourth in the Husman gets drafted to third.
I mean, so he's had this just incredible series of
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things that kids dream about, but he's handled it with
such grace and humility that I mean, I'm really proud
of him and the father and the husband. He is
so committed to being every day well.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's neat. I wrote a book years ago called My
Father My Friend. It was about my dad and how
I went from him being my father this awesome figure,
to being my really really close friend. As the years
go by, it sounds like that's what your experience of.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Two hundred percent. I was so proud of him talking yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
He just talking through some of the things he's doing,
like with Dak and Joe, and he just he's happy
and it's just really cool to see your kid grow
up and be happy.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, you're only as happy as your unhappiest child. And
if they're happy, you're happy. That's the bottom line. Well,
let me shift gears on you, sir. High school football,
high school basketball, the n i L and transfer portal
that has just disrupted at least collegiate athletics like we've
never seen before. Is that filtering down to your level
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as well?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
The ripple effect is and the impact of all those
things is real. I've said kind of from beginning and
I still feel this way that I think the NIL
for high school kids is a bunch ado about nothing.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I think it's it impacts very few kids.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I think it could be done smartly to impact more
kids that need it in a positive way. But it's
really if you're that elite, five star kind of kid,
there's something in it for you. But I mean we're
talking a handful of kids really, and the kids that
are need that's you know, there's really to me, the
best use of this would be in these smaller communities
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where maybe they're economically depressed. The Friday night Lights thing
is still a big deal, and they sell one hundreds
of thousand dollars of ads on these video boards and
you know the community thing matters. Well, there's a play
there that I would think that you could do something
with that money to impact kids in a positive way.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I mean you buy.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Them cleats or equipment or you know, computers or you
know those kinds of things, but that, you know, really
what's happening. But then I in high school, for the
few that get it, is no different than what's happening
now in college. I mean in terms of you know, hey,
just we're giving you money.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
And did the high school players have agents now?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah? And the elite ones do again not the elite ones. Yeah,
it's very few.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
And and honestly, at first I was like very against that, thinking, man,
this is not what you know AU basketball. In fact,
college COAE football coach used to come in and recruit
and they would say, I don't ever want this to
be a basketball I don't want to deal with the hamdler,
the intermediate galn with a. I just the only sport
anymore that's recruited out of the high school really is football.
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Everything else is gone through clubs. I mean literally, I
mean you get recruited down high school coaches can impact
that and help, but you really get recruited from your club.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And summer teams.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The I think, uh, you know where we are with
INIL now is the colleges have these things called collectives,
which are still changing, but you know they have this
pool of money that gets handed out for name, image
and likeness, which is not pay for play, not it's
supposed to be. Yeah, I think that's what it kind
of became. Yeah, and you know high schools there's no collectives,
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there's no privacy day to have a pot of money.
I think people are afraid what came out. Oh, the
private schools are going to go buy all these kids,
and they know we're not. I mean, you still have
to apply to get into school. I mean there's no
free admissions, there's no.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And the standards are high, very high, and.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
There's no scholarships. And there's merit base I mean or
not merit based. Excuse me, the opposite of it basis
need based. So you felt the fast Fund, You go
through that process, if you qualify, you get it. But
in AIL does impact that. There's no there's no place
for in IL and high schools that looks like what
it looks like in college.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
But you've had a couple of guys who are very
high recruits who's gotten millions from college? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, in college, not in high school. I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Is there somebody somewhere that's gotten a million dollars in
high school? Maybe I'm not aware of it. I mean,
certainly our guys who was at that level didn't get.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That, but they get it in college when they signed
with that school.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yeah, in I offer high school the average an idea
in high school like sixty bucks when they did a
study on it, h the cheeseburger down the street somewhere.
But when you get to college, that's a different story.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And do you have schools that bid against one another
that you have a kid that one school offers a million,
one school offers a million five? Is that going on?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Oh? Yeah, that stuff happens.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I mean in the transfer portal, happens when kids are
leaving there getting bought out of the portal.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I mean there's a lot of that going on.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I mean, wow, Well, when we come back, let's let's
unwrap that a bit more and let's just see how
you coach as a person of faith amidst this kind
of environment, and are you still able to do what
you really love to do and that's just influenced kids
for their future in order to be all that God
wants them to be. Chadgreer is my guest today. He's
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the head football coach of Providence Day School. We're talking
about nil, We're talking about faith in the high school arena.
I'm David Chadwick and we will be right back.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
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y'all said everything round me said, I've never.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Been moral thud are clue.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
My Favjeeesus He's not. He's faithful to Janvation.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Or we have the firm foundation of Jesus Christ guiding
our lives and when things get rough and difficult, we
always can know He is our firm foundation. However, you one.
I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk eleven, ten
ninety nine three WBT. Welcome back to the show. My
guest Chad Greer, the head football coach at Providence Day School.
And Chad, let's wrap up the previous conversation because I
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want to go to one other place before we have
to end the show, and that is basically what I'm
hearing from you is that in the high school level
the whole nil Getting a lot of money to these
high school kids really isn't happening that much except just
for the elite of the elite. They're getting the million
dollar plus offers from schools, but generally they are the exception,
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not the rule.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Well, they're getting that money and the league guys are
getting in college. And again, if it's happening in high school,
I've not seen that yet. I'm sure maybe somewhere it has,
but anecdotally it's it's the things I'm aware of, and
then the kids I've seen have access to all.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
It's just not it's not that big. Okay, well that
was the.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Big thing I wanted to get across. Today, Let's shift
gears and you do a really neat I would call
it a ministry called G seven. Talk to our listeners
about that.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah, So we started. My son and I started G
seven when he was still in college. Actually I started,
I said as a when I got out of business
and became a coach full time, I recognize I'm not
really gonna have anything to leave to my kids, and
I really wanted to leave something back. And so he
splarted as I hed, I'm gonna start this business of
trade quarterbacks and that's kind of what I do and I,
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you know, on the side, and so I said I'll
do this, and then well I could do it together,
and he was excited about we'll train quarterbacks together. It
kind of only started as that. And then as as
he's grown his faith and I think we start talking
more about it, it'll be just like, let's do with
this what God wants us to do with it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And we started this G seven seven on seven.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Club basically, and it's like an AU basketball kind of club,
if you will. And we've had you know, two to
three hundred kids a year playing seven on seven in
this have a jamboree. Big part of things. We give
every kid in the program a Bible. We try to create, uh,
we have scripture, we have a verse in our jerseys.
I mean, we try to represent our fate through ball.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Good for you, I'm wonderful for you. I mean I
want to applaud you and say good for you, Chad
Greer to be able to use your position to influence
younger kids for the Lord.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Well, I feel weird, thank you, Well, thank you for Look,
we're just trying to be in God's will and do
we think is best. I've been so blessed, my kids
have been so blessed, and I really don't feel like
I deserve the things that have happened to me, and
I certainly.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I don't feel like I get a lot of credit
for being this.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
You know this the success we've had in high school football.
At first, I'm very aware that it's because I've surrounded
myself with great assistant coaches that work with me, not
for me, to impact kids and use the game to
do that, and also been blessed with just great kids
and families that buy into what we're doing. But my
big message with coaching, and we took it to G seven,
(35:18):
is you know, I have these seven core values we
talk about in our program. The last one I'm a winner.
And I like to ask is what do you think
I'm a winner means? And sometimes it gets lost. I
have to continue to reiterate the message. But it's not
about winning games. I don't have a goal to win
a game. I mean, we have three goals. The first
was to win kids. If you win enough kids, winning
game takes care of itself, and that's been our philosophy.
But I'm a winner to me, is I get so
(35:42):
almost emotional about how many teenagers and young people I
see with self harm and depression and suicide. I just
don't understand that, and it really hurts me personally. Part
we had a family member that went through some of that,
and you know, for me, I want kids to know
they were created perfectly in God's image with no defects.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
You're exactly what you're supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
And in sports kid, i'm not big enough, fast enough, No, no,
you're not too tall, short, fat, skinny, black, white, green,
that you were created perfectly in his image with a
plan to be great and a plan to prospect you,
not to harm you. That's the message I want to
get across the kids. They're confidence shouldn't come because they
did something great and bald, because that's that's a good feeling.
It feels good as fleeting because I could tell you, hey,
(36:24):
I love you, great job, that was aweso great play,
and you feel great, and then the next time you
screw it up, I'm gonna yell at you, I'm gonna
get on you. And if that feels bad, You're confidence
waves like that. You're you're never gonna you know, You're
you're gonna live that kind of up and down life
versus your kind that feels good, it feels bad, but
the truth is your confidence comes. You're a child of God,
created perfectly in his image with a great plan. And
so that that kind of took us to G seven
(36:46):
to say, how many kids can it probams that we
got a lot of kids from great families. They survived
COVID just fine. You know, that's kind of when this
thing they took off for us was was with COVID.
There are a lot of kids got lost in COVID,
didn't have access to computers, have access to Wi Fi,
just literally didn't have extra food. A lot of these
kids would eat in the almost the lunch program or
(37:08):
breakfast program at schools. So we said, how can we
impact you know, we're still going to do ball, and
do ball seriously because that's kind of my ethos to
get kids to come near me, right, I mean now
looking at me going, hey that's a cool looking guy.
I want to go be with him. It's that, Hey,
this guy knows ball and he can help me maybe
you know, to get better or achieve my goals. And
I think that's how God uses me with football to
reach kids. But you know, we figured that let's see
(37:31):
if we can reach more kids with us, and so
it can't really make this too much of a shorter story, sorry,
but we got into this whole thing with G seven
to grow it through seven on seven reach other kids
and kids from Title one schools. We found coaches at
those schools don't have resource and so a guy asked
me for all kicking balls and I was like, well,
what do you want kicking balls for? And he's like, well,
(37:52):
I need some. We can't really afford game balls in
our budget. So we started this thing. We started buying
game balls and saying, hey, look, you know, I'll call
a coach and say, coach, I'd like to bring you
contenue game balls for your season. Well what's the catch,
you know, and you know, are you come to recruit
my kids or what we're really doing?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I said, well, the catches.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
I want to be able to put a Bible on
the hand of any kid that will take one in
exchange for the balls. And every coach I've made that
call to us says when can you get here?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
So and then.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
We we've been able to grow that just this past year.
We in fact, I've got today, I'm taking twenty helmets
to Chambers. New coach at Chambers need to state needed
some helmets. And we've been you know, blessed. Our organization
is growing. Now we're getting more support, we're able to
do that. I got a call from Harding High School's
coach that they don't have enough helmets for their freshman programs.
(38:38):
So I actually working today with Right I'll try to
figure out to buy helmets for Harding. So God's going
to continue to grow this, I think as long as
we can continue to stay true to what we're trying
to accomplish. To spread the love of football is a
way to impact kids for Jesus.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Wow, Chad Greer, head football coach at Providence Day School,
How exciting that is. And Chad, we've had somebody listening
in our show. Granger Bard. He who's been shadowing me.
This week. He's going to North Carolina on a swimming scholarship. Granger,
just take a quick moment. Here's what I want to
ask you to do. Tell us about what's going on
with the students at Providence Day School other schools, about
(39:13):
their desire to know the Lord, know his word. You're
leading a Bible study of how many kids?
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Yes, sir, so, I've been leading a Bible study in
the home of one of my friends for since January
of this year, and it started with just me and
two other kids, and it's grown to We've had over
twenty eight people come each of the last six weeks.
And I just feel like there's a serious revival coming
among the youth here in Charlotte and just so unexpected
(39:41):
but so grateful to see it grow in this way.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So I've got a football coach over here who's distributing
Bibles to kids and talking about his faith openly. I've
got a swimming scholarship winner here who's one to you
unc leading a Bible study of thirty kids. You know what,
I've got hope for the high school level, don't you chat?
And it just it sounds like a lot of good
things are going on. Granger, you as well. You have
hope as.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Well, Yes, sir, I think this generation can often get
a bad rap, but there's so much to be hopeful
for and so many.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
People are willing to make a difference.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
And I'm sure coach Chad Greer knows the same with
his team.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Everyone. Thank you for listening. Chad thank you for being
with me today. Granger you as well. It has been
great spending the week with you listeners. May the Lord
Jesus bless you and keep you. May the Lord make
his face to shine upon you, and may you know
his great peace. May you know his plan for your life.
May you know that he has a purpose that's beyond
anything you could ever know. And may you trust him
(40:35):
in that because he always desires to give us a
future and a hope. Believe trust There's a lot of
great things going on in our culture for the Lord.
I'm David Chadwick. This is News Talk eleven, ten ninety
nine three WBT talk with you all next week. SA
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