About Coach

I am the county boy that took Channa from a place she grew up and a job she loved to become a coach’s wife.  I grew up in East Texas in a small town only to eventually move to a small liberal arts school where I played college football and studied under some of the greatest minds in the world of academia.  Needless to say, it was a culture shock.  I was too conservative for the liberals and too liberal for the conservatives, and I couldn’t have loved it more because it forced me to become an independent thinker, an individual and grow into who I am today.


After college, I started out as a youth director running all student ministries, especially the Upward Basketball program,  and it was there that my desire to coach really overtook my job, to such a level that I quit my job, went to Region 7 and started my alternative certification to teach.  It was not the easiest move, it was hard on Channa and me, but here it is, 7 years later and I have been teaching and coaching since.  I was told I would never make it through my first year of coaching by my first head coach, but I’ve made it and each year it gets easier and I love it even more.


I am a life-long learner, a philosopher of sorts, a connoisseur of great beer and good cigars.  I can be the life of a party or the ever watching wallflower.  I will one day wear the colors of Crimson and White and listen as the Tide rolls or wearing the Maize and Blue and walk into the Big House.  My classroom is a reflection of me (to a degree at least). My players call me coach, my students call me a contradiction, but more importantly to me, my wife calls me her husband.  


If it were easy, then everyone could do it, but its not. However, with the downs come the ups, it can’t rain all the time, there are still blue skies behind the darkest clouds and no matter how hard things get, “our” kids make it worthwhile every single time.  This is our life, and I would not change it for anything.