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For over forty years he had lived this great and full life as a football coach. Tough, professional in every way, emotional and close to...

It seems that Ronny Massey’s life was always intertwined with football. From his youth in Chatom, Alabama to Livingston University to one...

Very few high school football coaches in the state of Alabama ever loved the game and understood the value it can have for young people...

For Lymos McDonald, it was always about the players, and his philosophy was pretty simple. “Show them how much you care, not how much you...

When you start describing the lifetime career of most high school coaches, statistics rarely tell the story. But when you look at the...

Don Creasy loved football. He came from Spring Valley School as a ninth grader to Colbert County High School in 1957 so he could play...

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...

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...

In the dictionary under “head football coach”, there should be a picture of him. Cap on, school shirt, polyester pants, black coaching...

Football coaches are notorious for going the extra mile to plan for their teams. They plan workouts, practices and certainly game plans...

Mike Battles, Sr. truly spent a lifetime coaching high school football. His career spanned 3 states, 47 years, state championships and...

There are not many football coaches who have the enthusiasm and courage to coach high school football for 49 years. There are even fewer...

Coach Dan Washburn will always be remembered throughout Alabama as the director of the AHSAA for 17 years. But Coach Washburn’s career...

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...

Coach Jay Brown started his coaching career as a student assistant in 1985 under his high school coach, the legendary Bill Burgess, at...

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...

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...

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...

In the Alabama high school coaching community, the moment you hear the name Jamie Riggs several thoughts flood your mind: You think of T....

Robert Higginbotham’s father, Coach Morris Higginbotham, became the head football coach at Hueytown High School in the spring of 1963,...