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Question and Answer with Mike Stock

Mike Stock has been a football coach for 45 years at all levels and with tremendous success. Though best known as a Special Teams guru, Mike has also coached wide receivers, running backs, tight ends, and was a head coach at Eastern Michigan University. Mike coached at eight different Universities and six professional football teams. [...]



Question and Answer with Rick Lantz

Question and Answer with Rick Lantz Rick Lantz has over forty years of experience coaching football. He’s been both a head coach and an assistant coach. So he brings a lot of perspective to the table. He is most known as a defensive coordinator. A well- traveled defensive coordinator with a wealth of experience with [...]



Question and Answer with Jeff Monken

Jeff Monken the 45 year old head football coach at Georgia Southern University has the Eagles on the right track back to IAA dominance. Monken took over the struggling Georgia Southern football program and did two things. The first was to bring back the spread option attack that was the heart of the six National [...]



Question and Answer with Tom Moore

Tom Moore is best known for putting together Tony Dungy’s 2007 Super Bowl winning offense with the Indianapolis Colts, but Tom also helped Chuck Noll’s Steelers win 2 Super Bowls as well. Coach Moore is widely recognized as an offensive guru ( a term I know he hates). He also took a proverbial have not [...]



Question and Answer with Charles Stebbins

Charles Stebbins is a retired Brigadier General who served as the Provost at The University of Charleston while I was the head football coach. Dr. Stebbins is now head of the under-graduate and graduate school of business at UC. In my last season at UC, I had Dr. Stebbins speak to my staff on leadership [...]



Questions and Answers with Gerry DiNardo

Gerry DiNardo went from an All American guard on Ara Parseghian’s National Championship in 1973 to the “Father of The I-Bone” during an successful coaching career in college football. DiNardo had a first hand look at what a championship football team looks like under Ara and joined Bill McCartney at Colorado and was part of [...]



Questions and Answers with Frank Lenti

Bo Schembechler once said “Consistency was more important than greatness” – Bo would have loved Mt. Carmel’s Head Coach Frank Lenti. It is his consistency that has led to his greatness. The word “great” and the word “awesome” are two of the most overused words in the English language but I would be hard pressed [...]



Questions and Answers with Frank Solich

Whenever I think of the great Nebraska teams I always think of Frank Solich. Frank was the starting Fullback for the Cornhuskers in the 60s and in 1965 was named team captain and was the All Big Eight Fullback. He was inducted into the Husker Hall of Fame in 1992. He was the 1st Husker [...]



Questions and Answers with Ted Kempski

The Delaware Wing T spread fear in the hearts of defensive coordinators for nearly half a century. One of the architects of that vaunted offense was Ted Kempski who was Tubby Raymond’s Offensive Coordinator. Ted coached at the University of Delaware for 34 years and during that span The Fightin’ Blue Hens won 3 National [...]



Questions and Answers with James Franklin

James Franklin is the current Offensive Coordinator and “Head Coach in waiting at the University of Maryland. James has worked his way up the coaching ranks after being a record setting Quarterback at East Stroudsburg University under Denny Douds. Franklin made stops at numerous schools (he could probably be a good travel agent) before becoming [...]