Doug Barfield
A spiritual calling can be one of life’s most powerful forces. When Doug Barfield entered Clarke County High School in Grove Hill in the...
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- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
Buddy Anderson
Longevity is not a term used much in coaching these days. In football, it always seems that coaches are looking to move up the ladder or...
- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
Bill Burgess
In the dictionary under “head football coach”, there should be a picture of him. Cap on, school shirt, polyester pants, black coaching...
- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
Craig Hunnicutt
Football coaches are notorious for going the extra mile to plan for their teams. They plan workouts, practices and certainly game plans...
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
Mike Battles
Mike Battles, Sr. truly spent a lifetime coaching high school football. His career spanned 3 states, 47 years, state championships and...
- Mar 17, 2020
- 3 min
Fred Yancey
There are not many football coaches who have the enthusiasm and courage to coach high school football for 49 years. There are even fewer...
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
Dan Washburn
Coach Dan Washburn will always be remembered throughout Alabama as the director of the AHSAA for 17 years. But Coach Washburn’s career...
- Apr 28, 2019
- 2 min
Steve Savarese
For Steve Savarese, it was not just about the winning. He has done plenty of that. It has always been about the integrity of high school...
- Apr 26, 2019
- 2 min
Jay Brown
Coach Jay Brown started his coaching career as a student assistant in 1985 under his high school coach, the legendary Bill Burgess, at...
- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
Randy Ragsdale
If Randy Ragsdale had not been a high school football coach, you would have begged him to coach to your son’s little league team, or...
- Apr 22, 2019
- 2 min
Bob Newton
It was 1976. A young assistant coach from Sprayberry High School in Georgia took a job at Homewood High School, which was in their fifth...
- Dec 3, 2018
- 1 min
John Mothershed
John Mothershed is a 1981 graduate of Sheffield High School where he was a wrestler and a football player and a 1985 graduate of the...
- Jan 28, 2017
- 4 min
Jamie Riggs
In the Alabama high school coaching community, the moment you hear the name Jamie Riggs several thoughts flood your mind: You think of T....
- Jan 28, 2017
- 3 min
Robert Higginbotham
Robert Higginbotham’s father, Coach Morris Higginbotham, became the head football coach at Hueytown High School in the spring of 1963,...
- Jan 28, 2017
- 2 min
Jerry Elmore
To say that coaching is in Jerry Elmore’s blood would be an understatement. The long-time football coach learned from the best, his...
- Mar 11, 2016
- 2 min
Nolan Atkins
Nolan Atkins could just plain coach. His influence and coaching skill was so great that he made Sweetwater High School the model for...
- Mar 11, 2016
- 3 min
Ben Harris
He was an assistant coach at Baldwin County High School when he took the head coaching job at Mattie T. Blount High School in Prichard in...
- Mar 11, 2016
- 3 min
Tom Calvin
Football is about relationships and no coach in the history of high school football in Alabama mastered that as well as Tom Calvin. The...
- Nov 30, 2015
- 3 min
R.L. Watson
Coach Terry Curtis presents the Lifetime Award to Coach R.L. Watson (right). All great football coaches seem to have one skill that sets...
- Nov 30, 2015
- 3 min
Ivan Jones
Coach Ivan Jones (left) with former Foley coaches Lester Smith and Keith Smith Foley High School has always had good football—successful...