“They Say Great Players Don’t Make Good Coaches”

In football and basketball I’ve often heard “analysts” and sports commentators say “great players don’t make good coaches” or “just because he played a long time doesn’t mean he can coach”…and it seems that logic only applies to Basketball and Football (especially Football)

Soccer, Hockey, and Baseball tend to hire former players as their head coach whereas Basketball and football especially, don’t.

Here are the avg years of professional playing experience for each sports Head Coach (these are just current HC’s)

Soccer – 15
Baseball 9.3
Hockey – 8
Basketball – 5.1
Football – 2.1

Only 4 current football coaches have ever played a season in the NFL. The NFL hires coaches who were not good players with some playing at small schools, some were backup players and some didn’t even play college football….

The other major sports value professional experience but in the NBA and NFL especially they don’t seem to value that…now why is that (rhetorical)?

Even the US government will hire Hackers to work for them…not guys that just read the books, but guys with experience…

And let’s not talk about the demands HS’s and Colleges put down for coaching candidates. Who’s a kid more likely to feel comfortable and confident with a coach with a familiar background to something or someone they can relate to. As proven by U of I when they snatched Coach Patterson, why are 4 & 5 star recruits picking JSU not because of the degree Coach prime has but because the work he put in. They know he put in the same grind they putting in now and with a coach like they they have the better chance of development, exposure and so on due to what this coach has done outside of the classroom out on the battle field. Now our source told ISN reporter with the NIL contract’s that pushes the grind for a degree back more because recruit’s can now earn money before hitting campus. And at the end of it all it’s about who can bring in the MONEY!!!!!

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“Player Spotlight ” Meet Jonathan Marmour from Israel

So I moved from New Jersey when I was 10 from a town called Maplewood into an even smaller town in Israel called Mitzpe Netofa. I had always dreamed of playing football because I knew my grandpa had success at Alfred Universty at the left tackle position and he entered their Hall of Fame. Well i was kind of a mess during my freshman and sophomore years till the middle of my sophomore year where I learned I could play football but would have to commute 2 and a half hours just to get to practice. Well I’ve never missed a practice. After my first half year of football I tryed out for the National team and the head coach saw promise in me so he signed me up. My first full year of football I had alot of succes earning me a spot on the first team defense of the country. By then I had moved schools to be closer to the team and home( my freshman and sophomore years i was in a boarding school) after my junior season my team that was based i Haifa fell apart and I moved to play In Carmiel . I took the sat in December earning a decent score and was ready to tear it up my senior year.I was so commited to making my senior season a success I would wake up at 4 30a.m to run 5 miles of hills because I had learned that’s what Jerry Rice would do and I want to be great just like him. I have plans on coming to America during the ISN I Wanna Sign Tour and I hope to gain more exposure and maybe me some college coaches.

Jonathan Marmour
2020
DE
6 3′(growing)
240
4.79 40
3.4 GPA
1120 SAT
Israel
2001779427 NCAA ID
First Team all Country

 

K-Town earns the #3 spot in the playoffs with a close victory!!

RAF LAKENHEATH, England — A pair of last-minute scoring runs by Tre Dotson on Saturday earned the visiting Kaiserslautern Raiders a 29-27 victory over the Lakenheath Lancers and an outright third-place finish in the DODEA-Europe Division I standings.

Dotson tied the game with a 9-yard rushing touchdown and followed up with the game-winning two-point conversion run with 50 seconds to play.

Dotson added five receptions for 78 yards and a touchdown. Quarterback Nelson Rivas completed 14 passes overall for 167 yards and three touchdowns; Shaun Edwards and Kaylon Williams handled the other two.

Kaiserslautern’s Stephan Cooley led all tacklers with 16, while Drew Frederick added 12. Dorian Cotton made an interception to end Lakenheath’s last-ditch attempt at a comeback.

Nick Scifo and Evan Butterfield scored two rushing touchdowns apiece for Lakenheath, while Joey Glenk added eight tackles.

The teams entered Saturday’s regular-season finale tied at 2-2 in conference play and both already assured of playoff berths.

Kaiserslautern’s win earned it the third seed and a visit next weekend to Ramstein, the second-seeded defending champion and the Raiders’ longtime archrival. Fourth seed Lakenheath will make the trip to undefeated top seed Stuttgart.

The Panthers Of Stuttgart HS Eyeing the 2019 Championship

This might be another of Stuttgart’s years.
The Stuttgart Panthers, DODEA-Europe Division I football champions in 2015 and 2017, took the inside track in the race for the 2019 title Friday night with a convincing 37-17 defeat of the defending champion Ramstein Royals.
“Morale-wise, it’s huge, because we’re undefeated, and we know that this is kind of pole position for the playoffs,” Stuttgart coach Billy Ratcliff said.
As Ratcliff referenced, the win leaves the Panthers as the only unbeaten team in Division I entering the league-wide bye next weekend and the two remaining regular-season games to follow. As well as things are playing out, however, Stuttgart knows Friday’s win is just an intermediate step to its ultimate goal.
“They’re still the defending champs until Nov. 2,” Ratcliff said of the Royals. “That’s the way we treated it, we didn’t take anything for granted.”
Stuttgart started the game with just that sense of urgency, staking a double-digit lead through one quarter on a touchdown reception by Jacob Ratcliff and a short-yardage touchdown run by Josh Olive. Defensively, the physical Panthers denied all Royal attempts to sustain offense and held the Royals without a touchdown through halftime.
Despite their rather comfortable 16-3 lead at intermission, it was the Panthers that came into the third quarter with the fervor of a trailing team. A pair of quick touchdowns, including a 78-yard scoring sprint by Jordan McCullough, expanded Stuttgart’s lead to 31-3 just two minutes into the second half.
Those two early-half surges offered irrefutable evidence of a potent Panther offense operating at an increasingly high level.
“We didn’t fumble the ball, our line blocked like it was supposed to, and we ran the ball hard and fast,” McCullough said.
Ramstein offered some resistance against the onslaught moments after its deficit maxed out at 28 points early in the third quarter. Jason Jones Jr. broke free for a 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown that thrilled a Ramstein crowd enjoying the program’s second-ever game under its newly installed Friday-night lights. But the Royals could gain no further ground.

McCullough led the Panther offense with 21 carries for 197 yards.
Quarterback Alec Kenfield completed five passes for 70 yards, along with a pair of two-point conversion tosses to Ahmir Johnson. Sabriel Ashley made four receptions for 48 yards for the Panthers. Trent Jackson rushed for 56 yards and a touchdown and found Ashley for a two-point conversion.

Garrett Sheffield led the Panther defense with eight tackles, while Johnson forced a fumble and recovered three, returning one for a 40-yard touchdown.