280. Georgia New Hires, Part 3: Dean, New, Newman

This summer, we are talking to some of the new Head Football Coach hires in the state of Georgia for 2025.  

This episode has interviews with:

• Jackson Dean, new Head Coach at Berrien
• Jeremy New, new Head Coach at Heritage (Ringgold)
• Justin Newman, new Head Coach at Crisp Co.

Episode Transcript

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Here Chris Parker, Why and solo this summer before the
Chad Michael'll be back. I promise they're busy over the
summer apparently, so they're flying solo today again for the
summer with our twenty twenty five Georgia New Hire series.
We've got three really good new head coaches talked to
today Today we got a theme of the brand new

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head coach or the for two of them and then
one has been a head coach for took a time
off and now back. So first we got Jackson Dean,
the new head coach at Buryon Barrian's a place that
can be greats had great facilities, but they have really
struggled over the years traditionally. Excited to see what coach
Dean can do. They're coming from cook right down Arrival School.

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You got Jeremy New coach Jeremy new at Heritage in Ringold.
Coach new is a longtime assistant at Heritage taking over
for E. K. Slaughter. Excited to see what he could do.
Excited to talk to him about that. And finally coach
Justin Newman at Chris County. Coach knew Mean had been
a head coach, but it's been a while. Comes back
corner at Carver Columbus. They win the state championship this year,

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propel him in the opportunity to be the head coach
of Christma County. Excited to see what coach has to say,
Excited to see what they can do at Chrisma County.
So I hope you enjoyed these three interviews, three good guys.
Uh enjoyed joining this time by the new head coach
of Burying, Coach Jackson Dean, Coach, thanks.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
For joining me now I appreciate you having me.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, man, So why burying?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, you know, it was always a job that intrigued me.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It was.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I actually applied for it a couple a couple of
times beforehand, back when I was at East Calwita, and uh,
it was always a job I knew. I knew I
always wanted and when I when I came down to Cook,
I knew. I always said that if it, if it
came open, and then, uh, the time was right and
the opportunity was was right, I was going to jump
on it. And so when it came up and I

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just said, hey, I got to take my chance right
now and go after it and try to get it
and then see what I can do with it.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
That's right, coach. And you guys did a great job
at Cook. I was impressed with the work you did
and looking forward to seeing what you can do here.
So I have to ask you, because you know I
tried to do my homework for these things. You know,
there's not been a ton of success. Okay, so I
think I saw one team that won more than five

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games in literally like twenty thirty years. So that doesn't
mean you can it. Actually, to me, that's exciting. I
didn't say that, like, to me, that's exciting. So there
was a guy I talked to maybe five years ago
now named Mike Feaster, a great dude friend of mine.

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He was leaving, he was leaving North Georgia. He was
going to Long County, and he was on a podcast
just like this like you, and I pulled up my
old side note here, and I mean Long County was bad.
I mean right, I don't think they'd ever won more
like three games, right, I'm like, is that exciting or discouraging?

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He was excited. It didn't change his tone a bit.
The dude has won more games there. Like, I've been
most impressed with him than almost anybody in the whole
state of Georgia with what he's been doing in the
last five years from where that place was. So you
ain't in that situation. But so, but what has to change, Like,
what have you seen that says, Okay, we're gonna do this,
We're gonna win games, We're gonna do it year after

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year after year like Mike's been able to do. But
what do you see as the hold up? Like, what's
what's the reason why so many good dudes have not
been able to do that?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
You know, it's it's kind of an interesting situation because obviously,
you got the facilities they've they've built the facilities up
where it's it's a great place. The field house is great,
the football field's great, the community has been great, the
players have been great. And you know, I was that
was one of the things I was pleasantly surprised with.
But you know, I really think it's just a belief

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system and instilling that belief system, uh in these kids.
And you know, we've been preaching it, uh since I
got there. And you know that they've allowed me to
bring in about three or four coaches, which has helped.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
And they're all dudes.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, one that one that I played with in
college who who I know is going to do a
great job running the defense in the weight room and
changing that mentality, and a couple others that have been
on some big time programs and big time teams, And
I think it's just a getting a different perspective in there,
and and one that's you know, kind of different from

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what they're used to.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know. I would go as far to say that
I'm I'm kind of one.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Of the the outsiders, uh at Brion that's ever one
of the only outsiders that's kind of been hired, and
also kind of a dare I say younger guy.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
I'm thirty six, but in the coaching realm, that's pretty
young in terms of the.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Head coaches and so and so. I think it's just.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
I think there's just so many good things with the
program and the direction that can go that intrigued me
and and I truly believe, and I've always believed, you know,
just playing them, I've always thought Either're one of those
teams that you lined up against on Friday night and say, man,
they've got.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Dudes over there.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
You know, they they looked the part, uh, you know,
And it was just always one of those things that
intrigued me. And I always thought, if I ever got
my shot at I want to take it because I
know they got the players, I know they got the facilities,
and I think the rest will just fall into place
as long as you do do your best and try
to figure it out what it is, what the ins
and outs are, what the wrongs and rights are, and

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how to make it work.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, I think you're exactly right, by the way on
the way that programs that haven't went and invarians have wins.
It's not like they're going on with ten then long
oh yeah every year, okay, right, but they haven't been
able to maintain a level of even you know, five, six,
seven wins every year. A lot of times I have
found just talking to people and doing it myself for

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a while, it really is as simple as people believe
in you can do it. Like you can't do anything
you don't think you can do so people, but you've
got to have some success early, right, So there's got
to be some things happen that makes a kid believe, Hey, man,
if I listen to coach Dean, I'm gonna actually be
good like that. That really is gonna work. And I
think I kind of got lucky a couple of times

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taking over teams that weren't really good, that had good
players already there and just kind of worked out where
the schedule maybe worked in our favor or something. But
what do you think has to happen in the early
parts of the season and the things about wins. But
just to get that belief, what are some what are
some action items? You're right on beliefs the thing. So
now what are some things that we're going to do
to get some belief.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so you know, we open the season with Cook County,
which you know, yeah, yeah, I know a little bit
about them, but so that's an exciting it's a rivalry.
You know, once we got moved out of the region,
they scheduled at week one, and so that's it'll just
be an exciting thing to go play them. And I think,
you know, I mean, shoot, I've told our kids straight up.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I've said, hey, you know, you know, week one means
something to me.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I said, I'm gonna be a little selfish week one,
no doubt, because I want that one bad.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
But but they they.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
You know, they understand and they I feel like they
bought into the belief of you know, there's there's no
difference between us and them. You know, obviously they've had
a little more success here recently, but I mean, were
we we still do the same work, We put in
the same effort, put in the same time, and you know,
we we can make it happen, and I think if
we were able to, you know, maintain a level of

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competitiveness with them, And then we played the near week two,
which is another rival for us, and it's kind of crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'm going to play my ex head head.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
College coach, which is kind of kind of interesting as
well and then kind of fun and and so you know,
I think those two games are huge for us, you know,
getting getting the momentum uh started off right and building
that true belief system and hey, we can hang with
kind of anyone, and then we can hopefully carry that
into the rest of the non region schedule and then

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into the region schedule, which I mean, you know as
well as I do, is that you know, our region
in terms of single A is probably the sec of
of football regions.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
But you know, we want to carry that momentum and
carry that and carry that mojo into those games and
hopefully we can make something happen.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Man, that really is it. And I'm excited to see
what you guys can do. And the key is the
key to that that excitement you have right now and
the excitement the players have right now, can we keep that
throughout times? Because you know, there's gonna be some struggles.
You're definitely gonna lose some plays and you might you're
gonna lose some series is and you'll lose some quarters
and you're gonna lose some games probably. But can we

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keep this same excitement and momentum and the people that
do really turn it around do find a way to
do that, you know, And so I hope you guys
can capture that and and really run with it even
when it's not perfect, because truthfully, it's not going to
be right. It's good just time yeah about it, but
it's not gonna be So what what have you found
so far that you like about the team?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Their work ethic and there and they're they're just hungry,
you know, you can tell you know, I was a
part of when I.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Played in high school.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh you know, I had three different staffs going through
high school. Uh, same head coach for three of those years,
and my last year I had a different head coach,
but three different staffs basically basically completely And so you know,
I've kind of connected with them in that and saying, hey, listen,
I know you've been through change, I know you've been
through turmoil.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I get it. And it's no fun and it's
not fair to you guys.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
But but the way they've worked and kind of bobbed
into what we're doing and their belief system in us
as coaches, you know, I think they see that there's
some changes being made and for the better. You know,
we we you know, preach them like, hey, we don't
want to keep you out here for long.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
But we want your effort high.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
If we can have high effort, uh, then then we
can make up for a lot of the other stuff.
But they've just honestly, they've just believed and bought into
what we're doing. And they're just flying around and it
seems like they're having fun again. And that was our
main goal, was to make you fall in love with
football again and have fun while doing it and and
enjoy it. And like I keep telling them, say, but

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you know, it's really fun winning and so you know,
when we put together some wins, is no telling how
this thing can take off and where what direction it
can go in. And you know, I truly believe this
senior class is really bought in and they really believe
in what we're doing. And I think they're gonna they're
gonna do something. And I've told this and I said,
y'all gonna do some things. It's gonna shock that shock

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this region, shocked this area and shocked the state.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
And I look forward to seeing them do it.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah. Man, that's exciting. Coach. I'm telling you, it's good
to hear. The hard working is what you want. Smart
and hard working. You know, I hire people too now
and teaching jobs and district off as principles. Listen, all
you're looking for is smart and hardworking. Everything else you
can teach them, but I can't teach you to be
smart and I can't teach you to be hardworking. Right,

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if you can get those things, I think I mean
to some degree, it's the same for players, right, you know,
you can process information. We need people who can get
after it. So if if we can teach you everything else,
but we can't teach you that. So so if that's
what's going well, Like, what's something you've identified, is okay
for us to get to that point where we're going
to shock these people. What's got to improve, Well, we've

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got to develop depth.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
I think, uh, first string across the board is pretty good.
You know, I meet and some of the other coaches.
You know, we've got coaches from Brooks County and coaches
have been at TCC and Thomasville and Lounges and War County, you.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Know, across the board.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
We we you know, we think we can pretty much
compete with everyone, but you know, it's the depth that's
got to get better.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
And we've you know, I think they.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Finished the season with a little longer thirty kids on
the roster and now we're up to over seventy out
on the sprint. Yeah, and so you know, a lot
of it's kids that have come back who had previously
stepped aside from playing football or or didn't want to,
but some of them come back. And we got a
big old freshman class coming up that's got about thirty
to thirty five kids in there. And so it's really

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just about building that depth because I mean, you know,
as well as I do, you can't.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
You know, you're you're.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Gonna have some some injuries and some issues during the
season that you're gonna have to replace kids, and you
can't take a huge blow off of it. And so
us trying to develop that depth in some spots and
trying to make, you know, not have everyone be a
two way starter or only limit those that are two
way starters and guys that can really step up and
play a lot of significant snaps will really help us

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in the long run.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, that's that's there's always a challenge, right, and you
know you got to stay healthy. There's a lot of
things that got to go into winning. Man. People have
no idea, that's right. So you talked about some coaches
a couple of times. Let's let's get there. Tell me
about some of the assistant coaches.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Well, we got Chopp Bergland. He's coming from Brooks County.
He was the o C last year.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Me and him we went to school together and kind
of always had a good relationship. So we're excited to
get him. And he's coaching the O line as the
run game coordinator Differ Davis. He's been there, is the
o C. Me and him work together at Lowndes for
a short stint, and he was one of those guys
when I was there that I would just sit there,
sit back and listen to him talk because he has

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forgot more about football than I'll ever know.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
In my life. And so he's one that I really
look up to. And he and he's great with.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
The kids and and just an unbelievable football coach. Doug
Kane is coming in. Me and him played together Valdosta State.
He was a linebacker, and I was telling some of
the other day, I said, he was one of them
linebackers that you know when I when I was on
offense and he was playing, he was playing linebacker.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
He was one of those you kind of looked.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
At and you were like, I really don't I really
hope he does not hit me right now. And you know,
he was just that kind of guy. And he's a
weight room guy, and so I was like, shoot, if
he brings any of that mentality to this program, and
it's gonna be nothing but nothing but good for us.
But he's been at some big places like uh tc
C and Thomas Mill uh you know, being the d

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C and and the weight room guy. So really look
forward to what he what he's bringing. And then uh,
Greg Sealey, He's coming from Lanier County where he was
the d C last year. Uh He's gonna come coach
the d line. Brings a lot of knowledge from there
and and just great with the kids. Phenomenal with the
kids and the kids. I mean day one, he came
in and the kids.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Just or just took right to them.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
And that's what you want as a head coach. You
want people, you know, it's what's one of those things.
This is my first head coaching gig, but I'm a
Philip Byronside. I worked for him one time, and you know,
at the end of his interview with me, he just said, hey,
he said, can he make kids do? I was like,
what do you mean by that? He's like, can you
make kids do what you ask them? Can you make

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them go hard? Can you make them do what you want?
Can you make them learn? And I was like, you
know what that that makes a whole lot of sense
because as you know, as an assistant, you know, you think,
you think you know a lot more than you do
and and and so it's really about making the kids
do you know, what the coordinators ask them, what the
head coaches asking, and ultimately what they're doing. And you know,

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if you can get them to do that, then you're
on the right path. And that's what all these guys
bring to the table. And you know, I'm just super
excited about having them on the staff.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
It's just wise to say that because it's kind of cliche,
But it really doesn't matter how much these coaches know,
you know, it matters how much they can get somebody
else to do right. So that's I mean, obviously coach
ironside want a bunch of games for a reason, but
that I mean, that's the kicking man. You'd be surprised
how many people know a lot of football that aren't

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overly effective, you know, as a coach, I mean, obviously
got to know football right, got to be able to
put it in the kids. And I was impressed with
the pedigree of some of them guys. Was impressed with,
you know, in the effort to try to turn the
program around to you want to turn Barrion into Cook
into Fitzgerald, into Thomasville into you know, that's where we
want to be. Okay, well, we got to have some

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people that have been at places like that, you know,
we got to know what that looks like. And so yeah,
I'm excited to see what you guys can do. I
really am, coach. I want to four or five years
from now reference you that me and you talked when
you first got this job, like I did old Feasters.
So I think you got a great chance. It is
a great place, man. The place is beautiful, great facilities,

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great players, is really primed to be good. I'm excited
for you. I think it's all about fitting, timing, and
it's a good time for you. You're a good fit.
And you know, man, I'm pulling for you. If I
can help you in any way, please let me know.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I appreciate it. And like I said, it's it's it's
a phenomenal place.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
And I'll say I'll say this, there are a lot
of athletes that are I know it's kind of cliche,
but they are slept on at Baron County and there's
some that are going to rise up this year and
they they're gonna show you what they're what they're made of,
and hopefully they'll get the recruiters will gather on the
recruiting trail and and see some of these guys and
see what they can do, and we'll get them into
some in some colleges.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
You know, I thought I took this from Coach Slack.
He said one time.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
He said, and there's no such thing as everyone always
talks about who's signing a big time scholarship.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
You say, every scholarship is a big time scholarship.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
If someone gets you to yeah if if, if someone's
gonna pay you to play football at their place, that's
a big town scholarship.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
And I think we're gonna have some.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
This is some scholarship football players, uh here at Baron
and I'll look forward to to see what they can
do with the next level and definitely see how they
can help.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Us out this year.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Absolutely, coach Man, I'm pulling for you. Good luck to you,
appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Thank you so much.

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three zero four three nine. I'm joined at this time
by the new head coach at Heritage, Coach Jeremy NW coach.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Thanks for joining me, coach, Thanks for having me with him.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Man.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
So I normally say, well, why this place? But you've
been there, so of course this place right, So what
made it so exciting to get this opportunity?

Speaker 8 (20:16):
It's a special place, man, Like I've been here all
seventeen years of my career.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
I came the second.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
Semester after the school open, so I've been fortunate to
just be here the whole time and see the progression
from starting the school to the first coaching change we
had with Tim James and then on the e K.
And I was fortunate that Ek had me on with
him for eleven years. It's just you know, I was

(20:42):
I was the son of a head coach who at
the time when he was coming through.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
He wanted to move every three four years.

Speaker 8 (20:50):
He was a He was a guy that wanted to
chase building, you know, schools and building different programs, and
when he felt like he got it as far as
he could go, he'd want the new challenge. Very fortunate,
you know, to play for him and all that kind
of stuff. But at the same time, I realized, like
I didn't want that life. I wanted to be somewhere
my whole career, settle down. And I'm fortunate enough that

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I've been here and they chose me to stay on.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
So from that aspect, I'm just lucky.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I hope people heard that. Some will say it again
in case they didn't. Seventeen years you've been there? Is
that what you said?

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yep? Seven, this was seventeenth year for me.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
What a great story, because so many times the old
folks like me that it's easy to say when you're
my position, you say, don't chase some head coaching jobs.
You want to write one, It'll come to you if
you deserve it, if it's supposed to work out or
to work out, you know, you tell people that stuff.
But I think it matters more when they see tangible
evidence of that. You know, like you can be somewhere

(21:56):
for a long time it's okay, and you can be
a good football coach because I knew. I knew you
to be a good football coach the whole time. You
have to have head coach by your name, and that's
what got you that opportunity. So speak on anybody that's
in that spot you were in a few years ago,
maybe where you know they kind of antsy about this.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 8 (22:15):
Like at some point, probably five or six years ago,
I started getting a bug, started looking at different jobs,
and for one reason or another, it just wasn't a
good fit. But you know, I was fortunate enough that
there was a guy in place in E. K. Slaughter
and you know them well coach that that I could

(22:36):
learn from something every day.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
And you know, I know that, like as a.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
First year head coach, there's a lot of other hats
that I'm gonna have to wear, and there's some other
things I'm gonna have to learn. But like, I've never
felt like I had this game figured out. I never
felt like I had any part of coaching figured out.
So there's always room to improve. There's always things you
can pick up from somebody, some you in particular. You know,

(23:03):
I've messaged you multiple times about different things. So for me,
I never saw like this is like something I gotta
do by set time. It's more of all right, there's
obviously some things I still need to learn, still need
to work on. So from that aspect, it's always been,
you know, I'm just gonna be where my feet are,

(23:24):
do the best job that I can do, and continue
to learn and grow from everybody around me.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
And if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, then
the day's supposed.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
To well and it's a good less for everybody. But
I will tell you there's one caveat to that story
of people like me telling you to hang in there
and do a good job where you are and all that.
You got to be with some good people. Okay. You know,
if you're not with some good people that can really
teach you, then forget what I said, Go get some
good people. But if you're with some good people, do

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a good job where you are. See how it plays out.
Now you're not gonna find and I say this publicly
obviously in this platform, You're not going to find a
more underrated dude than E. K. Slaughter. Okay, the guy's
one of the best coaches in Georgia that nobody really
probably knew much about. He kind of slid under the radar.
He's a humble dude. He doesn't say much. But I

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thought he's one of the best guys where. I mean,
I've told people that for years. I say it here
to you. Now, that's a blessing. You got to work
with him, right because he is a good man. I
hope he hears this.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
No, I mean as good of a coach as he is,
he's a better guy.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
He is great dude.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
He's actually a Nicaragua right now on a mission trip.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, that's why he won't hear it, because he'll be
doing something like that. See, i'd hear it because I
quit coaching and my big ass was just sitting around
listen to a podcast. He's out Nickarrogua doing something, you know,
So coach. The question is this, though, as much as
you learn from him, kind of challenging to follow a dude.

Speaker 8 (24:49):
Like that, Yeah, I mean, you never want to be
the guy that follows the guy that over eleven years, especially,
and you know the demographic and the dynamic of the
kids in this area. Like he's winning seven anywhere from
six to eight games a year over eleven years. So
it's like, how can I sustain this because it's not

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like other places, and you have ways of talent that
come and go, and you got to kind of like
ride the lolls and make sure that like things are
still going in the right direction. So yeah, I mean
it's a big challenge to like live up to what
he started. And you know, it's something that fortunately, anytime

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I call him, he picks up the phone and he
helps me out. I actually called him today about something
and said, hey, man, how do I do this?

Speaker 5 (25:37):
And he's like, oh, I just do.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
This, this and the other. And you know, he's he's invaluable.
He's always still gonna be around. His son's going to
be senior this year, so still being able to pick
his brain. Knowing that I can call him anytime that
I need and he genuinely's going to answer the phone
and give me any advice that I asked.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
For, you know, for what it's worth. I think the
key in those situations is really blending the old and
the new, right So you got a guy that's won
and I'm telling you you're right. Coach won six of
make games every year for eleven years. And I'm telling
you a place like that, it's like when in thirteen
or fourteen some other places. So he's been doing that.

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We don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
We don't need to bring in the guy from North
Carolina or wherever telling us what we ought to be doing.
But we also can't just do exactly what they did
because he's not here. So what's something this guy like,
what's how's the way you can put I think people
struggle with that in your position. So I'm saying, what

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if you think is a way you could put an
imprint of your coaching staff on it? You know, this
is the coach new regime, but it's also blending in,
like what's something you can do to make that balance?

Speaker 8 (26:50):
I think the biggest thing for me is, you know,
like I said, I've been fortunate that I've been here
for seventeen years, so I know everybody in the community.
He can I agree, and like philosophically we're like really
united on a lot of things, but like we go
about it different ways. So I'm not trying to do
things the way Ek did them. I'm going to do
them the way that I know and be genuine to myself,

(27:12):
not just because you know he did it this certain
way and it was the right way. It's more of
we're gonna do things the way that we do them,
but it's going to be more of the way.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
That is me, because I'm not going to try to
be something i'm not.

Speaker 8 (27:26):
I think when you do that, you're unsuccessful and you're
unauthentic and kids see right through it. So, like I said, philosophically,
we're very similar, but like how we go about things
is way different.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
You got to be you, man, just be you.

Speaker 8 (27:41):
So I mean, like I'll give you an example, like
e K was a big power lifter, like that was
his that's his baby, whereas me, I'm more of a
speed specific and I don't really care about the amount
of weight.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
It's how fast can we move it.

Speaker 8 (27:53):
So although we both agree on certain lifts and how
we do it, just the way we go about doing
it is just a little bit different.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think it's really important to be yourself and have
the confidence to be yourself even though you know, yeah,
we used to do it this way and it has
been successful, let's let's you know, here's how we're gonna
do it. And being there seventeen years is such a
huge advantage in that because the kids do trust you,
the community trust you, the other coaches trust you. So
you're not having to build that trust that somebody knew

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would have to come in for sure, you are going
to have to build your own identity because it is
a challenge sometimes to build an identity when an identity
has been established, right, Yeah, you guys have one. I mean,
done a great job there.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Yeah, I mean you know, I mean, like you said, like,
we got to continue the product that we've had, but
we're just going to go about a little bit different way,
you know, And I think that that's fine. And sometimes,
you know, fresh eyes looking at things is always a.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Good thing, absolutely, you know.

Speaker 8 (28:54):
Like me, I'm going to continue doing the defense just
because that's that's normal for me.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
I don't want to just give up that aspect of it.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
Just because I have a different hat doesn't mean that
it's gonna change how I go by going to practice,
how I prent for practice, Like that stuff's not gonna change.
Jonathan Eves who's been the offensive coordinator the last five
or six years is going to continue to be the
offensive coordinator. So in those realms, like there's not a
lot of overturn, but like you know sometimes and you

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know this, like you have a thought as a coordinator
and the head coach is like, yeah, I don't like that.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
I don't want to do it. Well, now I get
to do something.

Speaker 8 (29:32):
Now you can do it, and you know, same thing offensively,
e k was so involved with the offense.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
It's not gonna look a whole lot different.

Speaker 8 (29:39):
But Eaves has some different things he wants to do,
and you know, I'm getting give him the free ring
to do it until you know, I feel like it's
not what we need to do.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, until they try to go three if they throw
three in completions in punt, Yeah, defensive head coach don't
like that. Okay, I'm just gonna give your heads up.
You're gonna get mad about that. The three three passes
and funting is not a recipedal wins. So coach's listening. Yeah,
you know, run the ball a little or make sure
we get a completion in there and get a first

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down at least if you know, that's the way to
make the head coach keep letting you do whatever you want. Right, coach,
So I ask you a football question, what what's something
you football wise have studied this offseason? What'd be practiced offense? Defense?
What's something you thought scheme wise, We're gonna learn a
little bit this offseason.

Speaker 8 (30:30):
Really and truly it's it's not necessary like when I
go into the off season, what I start learning.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Is like what killed me the year before?

Speaker 8 (30:40):
What can I tweet to our defense to not overhaul
it but make it to where what we're seeing each
and every week coming up the next season is have
built in answers for him already.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
We're gonna be a little more multiple this year. You know,
we always based of a.

Speaker 8 (30:57):
Three four, but we've we've seen nothing but eleven, twelve
and twenty and twenty one moving forward. We don't see
the ten p that much anymore. So we're having to
get more into some four man packages. Playing with the
traditional four zero four that we play with. Now we're
playing some four eyes. We'll play you know, some shades
to one side and the other. Just trying to be

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on more of a you know, proactive having things, having
answers built in moving forward into the season to where
it's not reactive and we're having to scram on teach
new things each and every week.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
We played with a lot of stacked stuff in the spring.

Speaker 8 (31:38):
We like I said, we played with different fronts up front,
just trying to see what our guys can and can't do.
And offensively, it's still going to be, you know, a
mix of Ek's old ten piece stuff with kind of
what you did that we kind of morphed into over
the years, and then a lot more quick game screens.

(32:02):
You know, we got a lot of a lot of
good kids offensive we're coming back, and so we're gonna
try to put them in different matchups to you know,
benefit them. So it's it's gonna look similar, but there's
gonna be a lot of different variations.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Infact. That kind of makes sense.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, well, you know, and two of the questions I
ask usually in these type of situations like Okay, you're new,
tell me what you found out so far about what's
got to improve on your team, or tell me what
you found out so far about what's gonna be good
in this region. Yeah, well, the good thing about seventeen
years is you know the teams in the region and
you know the guys on the team, so but it's

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still different from that head coach perspective. So what is
something this gout improved? Like if you guys have a
season you want to have, what's something's gotta get better?

Speaker 5 (32:50):
We got to get some depth.

Speaker 8 (32:51):
Man, Like our first our first wave of guys we
feel really really good about and we bring back a
ton of like returners from Lafe this year.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
The problem is we graduated a lot of depth.

Speaker 8 (33:04):
So we've got to develop some guys and we feel
good about where we are with some of them, but
we got to take the next step and and get
them to where they're their game ready and right now
we're not. That's probably the biggest area of concern is
if the injury bug hits, can you can you finish
a game? And right now I don't feel good about

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where we're at right now.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, so you got develop some guys from now to August,
right they can play. Uh, you know, the region is
the same teams you guys played forever, but you do
have the state champion there now, So I mean tough region.
I think it's pretty deep. A lot of parody among
you know, Darswel and Gilmer is pretty decent. Northwest, you guys.
I mean there's there's a lot of parody there. You know,
obviously Calhoun being a region champ, I mean being a

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state champ. But what's what's gonna win in this region
this year?

Speaker 8 (33:55):
I mean it's you got to have consistent play week
in and week out. Man. I mean, if you have
a bad game, you know, because of the parody in
the region, you can drop two spots real quick.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, because the tie breakers and stuff like that's what
you're run into.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
Yeah, I mean that that happened last last year.

Speaker 8 (34:12):
I mean we're playing a Darsville Week ten if we
win where the two seed, if we lose, we're out.
And it was all based off of points because everybody
beat each other. So I mean it's it's it's very
very like competitive weekend week out and and if you're
not ready, like like I said, you're gonna be two
spots down and you may be out.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, that's right. And I always thought that of that.
We always had, you know, there's always you know, it
used to be Cardis Will now it's Calhoun, I guess.
But there's always somebody that was dominant. Of course, that's
the state champ contender, and then people kind of forget
about that region. But then you look up there and
there'd be four or five pretty good football teams and
only three of them gonna make the playoffs. Now it's different,

(34:54):
I know, with power rankings, but back then, you know,
we'd have four or five decent teams that you know,
depend on how you played in those games. You know,
that's why we ended up with Back in the day,
we end up with so many mini games because we
ended up in those you know, three way ties for
fourth place or three way ties for third and fourth,
you know, and that's.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
A stressful tooting.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Man, those are.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
A stressful situation.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
I know, that's crazy. We won't did it one time,
but it was like, it's wild, man. I remember that
mini game more than I remember some real game, like
some really successful games we had. It was just crazy.
Five minutes a half and yeah, it's it's it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
Season's over.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah one we Yeah, I mean, it's it's a strange deal.
If you had never been in a mini game, you know,
I don't know if you'll see that anymore. With the
power ranking and stuff, it doesn't matter as much, you know,
so you don't have to worry about the mini game.
Coach just got to get in the top thirty two.
Hey tell me, I know you kept most of them,

(35:57):
and you mentioned a few, but you know, Bragg only
about say you're coaching staff. You want to throw a
shout out to you, guys. I thought your whole staff.
I gave Ak all the credit earlier, but I thought
the whole staff over there did a really good job.
I really did know.

Speaker 8 (36:09):
K did a phenomenal job of of like forming the
staffs over the years, and luckily most of it is
still intact. So you know, Jonathan Evese is the offensive coordinator,
Chase Fleming is gonna be the defensive coordinator. Anytime you
can get an offensive line guru on the defensive side, man,
it was such a blessing this year. He could, like

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any scheme out there, he would dissect immediately and tell
me what was going on.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
So it just made my job a lot easier.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
Wilson Benefield he does inside backers for us, and then
Blake Foster does running backs for US. David Gibson does
the old line for us. He's been doing it for
a long time. And then tender Nance does the tight
ends in HS and defensively is where we've got the

(37:02):
most turnover.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
I did corners last year.

Speaker 8 (37:06):
I'm doing outside backers this year because Austin Alexander he
used to do outside backers with a special steams coordinator.
He was a lay guy and he got a new
job and time wise he just couldn't do it anymore.
And then coach Hi Chris Height, he wound up going
on to another profession as well. So I brought in
Jordan McKinney, who was a Dalton grad played at Georgia.

(37:28):
His wife is married to our quarterback coach, sister, Corby Wilson.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
I'm about to say that'd be something.

Speaker 8 (37:35):
No, I mean the quarterback coach sister Corby Wilson. So
we've been talking back and forth with him for years
trying to figure out his work schedule, and he finally
got to figure out.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
So it was really good timing to bring him on.

Speaker 8 (37:50):
And then we got two more guys we're trying to
get hired right now, you.

Speaker 5 (37:54):
Know how that is this time of the year. But
luck with them, yeah, I mean right now, like we
feel really good.

Speaker 8 (38:01):
It's a good mix of like some some newer, younger
guys and some motorhead guys that.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
You know, it's you really don't want one or the other.
It's it's good to have a little blend of each
because they bring different you know, ideas and everything.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
In I'm look forward to seeing what you guys can do.
Coach just really did always have a ton of respect
for you all, and I'm excited for you get the opportunity.
I think that's doing it the right way. You know,
Coach did a good job before you pass it on
to you, do a good job. Follow excited to see
what you can do. Man, if I can ever help
you out, please keep letting me know. I'll hope you

(38:37):
ever I can. I really will.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
I appreciate it, man, I really do. And I appreciate
the access that you always have.

Speaker 8 (38:43):
Man if I just send you a text or tweet
and you immediately respund, man, And it really is beneficial.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
And you know, one of the things that I was.

Speaker 8 (38:52):
Really struggling with when I was doing the interview was
the thirty sixty ninety D plan and you immediately sent
me one and it just helped me like take off
of what I needed to do.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
So I really do appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, man, anytime. And that's the way I can help. Now.
I don't have to worry about stopping anybody or playing
any offense. So you guys got the hard job. My
help out I can. Thanks man, have a good night.
Man if I can take care of.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yourself all I appreciate it. Man.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
See Ry please be joined this time by the new
head coach at Chris County, Coach Justin Newman. Coach, thanks
you for joining.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Me, Hey man, anytime. Love everything that you do.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Appreciate it. Coach. Hey Also, I actually say before we
talk about Chris State champ Coach Newman.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
Right, yes, sir, yes, sir. We had a good run
over at Corver, Columbus. Man kids played really really well,
bought into what we were trying to say, and you know,
got to do some very special things this past year.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah, watch you guys players really impressed. Been impressed what
you guys did defensively for a few years.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
Coach.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
What made Chris the place though? You know you go
and jumping that head coach chair? What made Chris a
great opportunity for you?

Speaker 7 (39:58):
What to There's two things. My senior year in high
school two thousand and two Shaw High School. We just
won a state championship my junior year. We've been running
through everybody, and Chris County is the first team we
got to play in the playoffs and we're up seventeen
to zero and we end up losing twenty to seventeen
in the first round, bringing back ninety percent of the team.

(40:20):
So that's how Chris was always kind of in my mind.
The second thing is our first year at Carver. We
played Chris County at a Memorial Stadium down there, and
I've known kind of Jimmy Hughes for a little bit
and him and I were just talking and he just
was explaining the job and how much he pays and
all the things that go along with it. I said, well, man, hell,

(40:42):
if it ever opens up, I'm interested. And when it
came open, it was definitely an opportunity. You know, it's
down South Georgia football, and you know, I really have
always kind of had Crisp in my mind, and it's
just been wonderful since place coach.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
You got some really good football coaches been through there
and had some success, and it's kind of the I
think of it when I go down to South Georgia's
kind of the gateway to South Georgia. Right, It's like
the first real South Georgia place, right is yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Yes, It even says it on their side, the gateway
to the South.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
That's right, man, it's really South Georgia. You know that
I learned. You know, of course I'm a North Georgia guy,
but I've learned that the Middle Georgia folks don't like
being called South Georgia. You know, the Atlanta people think
everything below Atlanta south Georgia. So you got to really
separate it. At Crisp County that's South Georgia.

Speaker 6 (41:38):
You all right, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
What have you learned so far? Coach? What do you
What do you feeling like with your team so far?

Speaker 6 (41:45):
Oh? The biggest thing is, like I said, they've got talent.

Speaker 7 (41:48):
The one thing that I kept trying to tell the
kids when when we came in was like, guys, you
have the talent. Number one from having to play the
teams uh two times that we were there, uh seeing
you know, breaking them down because they did play Appling
County in Pierce County that we played that, you know
that you guys have the talent to be good. Don't
let that fool you. But at the same point, you know,

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there's just things that you've got to do and you've
got to buy in down here. And that's been the
one thing is they've just been bought in and working
really really hard. You know, when you come in uh
to a program, you always worry about, especially those guys
that are going to be seniors. You know, how hard
is it to turn them into what you need them
to be because realistically they only have to work be
with you for six months, so why do.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
They really need to believe in your vision?

Speaker 7 (42:32):
And you know, they've just been a group of hard
working young men.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
You know.

Speaker 7 (42:37):
The best thing about them is as the recruits college
coaches are coming through it and I'm pulling GPAs and
transcript shoot three seven three eight four four four zero
three seven five.

Speaker 6 (42:48):
I'm like, oh lord, you know then they're smart.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
But not only have they talented, they're smart individuals and
they've made it fun. I've really enjoyed myself since coming
down here.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Man, that's good to hear. Coach, I'll tell you in
your region, the man, that's a tough region. You only
got five teams, but I means some good football teams
in that region.

Speaker 7 (43:07):
Now, oh god, yes, you know that might have been
part of the reason why I was a candidate for
how well we played against them, them two rounds in
the playoffs with those guys.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
Uh but you know, every year is going to be
different and everything.

Speaker 7 (43:21):
You know, the one one team that's gonna probably be
a little bit more the same would be Pierce and
uh Cook, But Pierce lost a good bit. Applan's getting
a new coach. I mean, my schedule isn't easy, that's
for sure. You know, we got Fitzgerald who's got a
new coach. We gotta go play Peace, we gotta play Swingsboro.

Speaker 6 (43:38):
Love it. Something's been better this past year as well.
So I mean, it's.

Speaker 7 (43:43):
Gonna be tough, but that's only gonna make you better
when it comes to playoff time's right.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
And it's gonna be you got a good team to
coach them. Teams were saying the same thing about you,
you know, So that's how you gotta look at it.
And I think when you've been like where you were
at Carver, you know, you've just been there and you
kind of understand the big picture. And that's why going
from those great position coach or the great coordinator job
where you've been at the you've seen greatness in the playoffs.

(44:08):
It does help you prepare to make that transition a
head coach. Has there been anything that you know, maybe
you've been surprised by that you didn't know the head
coach had to do yet.

Speaker 7 (44:19):
Oh No, Like I said, I've been a head coach before.
Just down here, it's really wonderful to see the support.
It's it's been a lot more kind of as close
as you could probably get to when you watch Friday
Night Lights and things of that nature, where it's that
one team, that one town type thing down here in
the South Georgia area where you've got all the boosters

(44:40):
and I mean it's they're gonna shut down. You know,
it's not a massive town, but it's not a small
town either, so they all bleed this cris County football
that and it's wonderful. It absolutely is wonderful. But that's
been the one big thing far as being a head
coach being like, man, you know, shoot, I've had to
go to meetings.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
Quinna's Club, four H Club, Club.

Speaker 7 (45:01):
Booster Club. But man, it's been fun. It's really been fun.
A lot a lot of work, but it's been fun.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yeah, the defense, coaching defense the fun part now right, Yeah,
Well you mentioned being a head coach for what what
is something? And it's been it's been I think if
I saw it right, six or seven years between the jobs.
So what have you learned in that gap that you're
taking with you right now? Like I'm the principal and

(45:27):
I'm hiring you. I'm like, tell me what you wish
you knew six or seven years ago that you know
right now coming into this thing.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
What the biggest thing was is, you know, taking your
first jobs, you never know until you're actually in the chairs.
And that's the biggest thing that I try to tell
a lot of the young coaches as well. You know,
everybody feels like, hey man, I should be a guy,
should be a guy, should be a guy.

Speaker 6 (45:50):
But do you don't know till you're in the chair
with the big thing.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
But all those experience beforehand show me different things from
what I needed to do better, what are things that
do work well? And then being able to go be
under some of these greater great coaches to see in
these past six or seven years what I need to
do to get to that level and be back up
at that level because you do have to restart yourself

(46:13):
and there's things you got to learn. You know, if
it was if I needed to be successful, if I
was successful before, I wouldn't have been in the position
I was last four years running coach Coffee's defense for
him in that nature. So it said I needed to
still grow, and I feel like that I have grown
enough to where I needed to see another opportunity to

(46:34):
see how well I can do it.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah. Absolutely, cause I think it's a great hire. I've
told anybody to ask me. I thought it was a
great Hiir. I think you're gonna do a great job.
I really do. And one of the reasons I think
that is just I thought you guys schemed up. I
thought you just really well coached on defense. So I
gotta ask you a defensive question. Tell me something you're
working on this off season. What's something you studied or
you looked at and said X and O wise defensively,

(46:57):
what's something I need to know more about?

Speaker 5 (47:00):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (47:00):
The biggest thing is just being able to fit your
kids into the pieces and where they need to be
defensively for me, in the scheme that you know, I
kind of run. You know, I've had to move a
kid from wide receiver to dB that's normally been a
wide receiver, but he had a wonderful, wonderful spring for us.
I think he had to pick eight tackles and three

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PBUs in our game and he's been nothing but a
wide receiver type thing.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
So we're really really.

Speaker 7 (47:29):
Trying to just get them to understand the scheme and
the mentality and that standard that you have to have
with them. You know, we don't do I try to
tell everybody when I've spoke at clinics and things, Hey,
I promise you I don't know it all. You know,
less is more, And I'm just trying to get the
kids to play fast and believe in what we're trying
to do, and that's been the best thing for us

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going forward.

Speaker 6 (47:52):
Anyways.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Yeah, there's like a like an inner struggle among the
defensive coaches arguing about you know, my stance was always
less and more. Let's just line up right, make sure
we know our alignment, assignment, get your eyes right, get
after it. And some people just that they want to
be really complex, you know, and they think that I

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don't think there's anything wrong with either one but I
hear some pretty compelling arguments on both. Because if the
kids are smart, you know, you teach them as many
things you do, you give yourself more opportunity. Right. But
if you're teaching them so many things that they get
confused and we can't just line up and play ball,
that's another problem. So what do you see like the
future of defense being maybe more simplistic so you can

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play faster or more complex with more and more things
you got to teach throughout the week.

Speaker 7 (48:44):
Just for me in general, I'm a big person on rules.
So that way, when the kid comes and asks me
to say, well, what's your rule, they spit it out.
Oh yeah, coach, that's what I'm supposed to be doing
because I want them to play as fast as possible.
If they have to think, they're going to be a
step slow. So that's the way that I've always done it.
I've when I did and came up with this defensive
stuff that we're doing. It's a mos posher for all

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kinds of people. Uh, Kirby Smarts, Gary Patterson, my father,
Scott Newman, Tony Graziano who was over at Griffin, and
a bunch of different places. It's it's a group of
a lot of people's stuff and kind of pulling it together.
But I asked myself, what is it these offenses want
to do all this check with me stuff. How can

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I adapt that and do it on defense and be
the same way. You know, what would I not want
to see as a offensive coordinator, being that I've done
that as well in the past, But that's been really
the bigg I'm a I'm a big simplistic guy.

Speaker 6 (49:42):
I want them to play fast.

Speaker 7 (49:43):
And that was what made this last year's defense at
Carver really good is we brought back about eight or
nine of them, and they all understood what we wanted,
so we were able to add on that couple more
complex stuff to make better, which made it real fun
too at the same point, because then you can start

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getting exotic and as a coach, you know, you love
drawing something up and saying, hey, this might not it
might work.

Speaker 6 (50:08):
Oh we've come up with a great new stunt. Here
we go.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Like everything, a balance is the answer, right, I mean,
like anything, it's a balance of both. But I do
see people arguing pretty hard on both those sides, and
I can't understand that I would side more toward the
simplicity and like I said, build over time if you can,
but you got to build a line up, just run
to the football man. It's sometimes we made this thing
way harder it had to be, you know.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
But the alignment is more than half the battle. Man.

Speaker 7 (50:37):
If you're out, you know, those pint guys and all
the other guys shoo, they just want that extra number.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
And if they got extra number, then they're gonna get you.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Yeah, we chart like you know, we get plays that
were ineffective for us. So defensively, for me, I would
have said, any play that game four more yards rushing,
you know, or they completed the pass down the field,
then that's gonna be a bad play for us. So
we take those plays, cut them up for real, ask
yourself what the problem was, and you're gonna find what

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you said. More than half the time, somebody just not.

Speaker 6 (51:08):
Lined up, right, Oh, I mean without a doubt.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Well that's really if you're really being honest with yourself
on what the problem was, then that's probably what it is.
And uh and if you are, if you aren't doing
something like that, you don't do it the way I
just described it. But everybody listening should have some variation
of some way they're kind of evaluating the bad plays,
you know things. Sometimes we spend too much time we're
about the good plays.

Speaker 7 (51:30):
Honestly, Yeah, you got you got to sell scout. And
that was something that Coach Coffee and I did. You
know together we would do is we He would he
would come, Hey, I almost self scout you, you self scout me.
And let's you know, going into playoffs with that extra
week that they gave us, I think that really helped us,
uh to get better as a group. You know, we
competed every day, uh, going in every day at practice.

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That was something that I felt also was something I
wanted to make sure I brought down here is we're
gonna do some form of competition one verse one loser
has X y Z and you get the kids that
always want to compete. And if you get that, you're
going to have a good time playing football.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Exactly right. Coach, Hey, I'll get you out of here
on this one. Tell me a little bit about your
coaching staff, who you're able to keep or bring or
brag on these guys a little bit that are the
future Parker resources. Something of the year, like Justin Newman rights.

Speaker 7 (52:25):
Uh, you know, I retained Jason Slimp. He's gonna be
co offensive coordinator with a guy brought in Darrell Mabry
who was over there with me at Carver. They did
a fantastic job on the offensive side of the ball,
you know, shoot, putting up thirty three points with you know,
and I know I'm not the easiest got to deal
with either. At the same point, you know, I keep

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preaching that simplicity, and I know they wanted to add
this player this play, but with you know, as little
as I felt like we brought into the game, they
did a very very good job with what they were doing.

Speaker 6 (52:57):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (52:57):
Defensively, you know, I've got my brought my defensive back coach,
Xavier Billingsley. He knows exactly what I want from my coverage.
He's done a fantastic job of getting them guys ready,
because that's always the hardest thing with my defenses, getting
those guys to understand our coverage and adjustments in there.
I'm bringing in Robert span from tiff County. He's gonna

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be my strength and conditioning guy, linebacker and kind of
co d C as well. He gets those linebackers flying
downhill in a hurry, and I've been really pleased with that.
I mean, I could name every single one. I've got
a kid that I coached back at Jordan High School.
He's coming in to help with the DBS emmanual man
Nick Hudson, who's gonna also help with the Nichols and

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such to that nature. I got Jimmy Hughes's son doing
my outside linebackers. He does a fantastic job. My offensive
line guy, Kobe Weist. I'm bringing in another guy who's
an offensive line guy, Tyler Pritchett. His brother is actually
the offensive linement at Carver who's verbal to Auburn right now,
and he actually played old line at UNC. We've got

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a good group and a good mix of coaches here.
Oh and I can't forget uh Reverend Jeff Wilson and
Larry Wilson.

Speaker 6 (54:07):
They do our wide receivers.

Speaker 7 (54:08):
Jeff Wilson has been down here for twenty some odd years, man,
and he is he is a godsend when it comes
to Chris County football down here.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Man, that's a good group, coach. I'm excited to see
what y'all can do. Man. What's gotta what's gotta what's
gotta really work out from now to November for you.

Speaker 7 (54:29):
The biggest thing is just buying into the standard, you know,
and I felt like we've done that, uh at least
with our group, and getting them to understand that, you know,
the old ways aren't we're not doing those things. Those
ways you know, you don't practice, you don't play, if
you don't have grades, you don't do this. If you're
gonna be late, you're not gonna get You're gonna move
down to depth chart and getting them to understand what

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we're pushing. And I would tell him all the time,
our standard is, you know, we're trying to chase perfection
like old Vince Lombardi said back in the day, and
then we're gonna catch excellence. And I always compare it
to their greadest, like you just shoot the pass and
you miss.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
Guess what happens, Guys, you failed.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
But if you're shooting to try to get a hundred
and you miss, it's to be So I would much
rather just try to be perfect.

Speaker 6 (55:10):
And I know you're not going to be perfect, but
that's going.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
To be what we're looking for. So you get mad
at we're harping on the details. This ain't the place
for you, but if you want to be coached up
and you want to be loved, this is the place
for you to be.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
Man.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
I'm excited, coach. I'm looking forward to following you. I
appreciate you taking some time to talk to me, my man.
If I can help you, please let me know absolutely.

Speaker 6 (55:32):
And thank you so much for all you do for
high school sports.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Thanks coach, appreciate you here, sir,