Coach BJT

Growing up football was basically everything to me. I started playing around 2005 or 2006. I didn’t really have a large interest in football prior to playing, but my mom signed me up and I fell in love with it.

Throughout little league and high school, football was all I kind of really did outside of class. My experience as a player was rather different. I feel like I look at football differently than most. As a kid I made my own playbooks and would practice the plays I created. Throughout high school some of my days away from football consisted of just that — more football. Whether I would be watching college or NFL games or just watching film in my spare time of players that I admired and playing styles I would then try to emulate. I was a real team-oriented guy. I was there for my teammates when they needed me either on the field or off it. Especially off of the field. I was there as someone they could talk to and go to for advice.

I was a part of two state championship winning teams in high school as a defensive back. I know what it’s like to be a part of a team who lost a state championship and won a pair of them. So winning means a lot to me.

I feel like any chance to further your education and continue playing the sport you love is a blessing no matter where the opportunity is presented. With that being said, I had a few offers to play football in college. They weren’t any big schools but none the less another opportunity to play was welcome albeit briefly.

I had a brief stint of what college football was like. As that began I slowly started falling out of love with the game of the football for a while. I was sad, depressed and just wasn’t really into it as much anymore. So I wanted to step away from the game as a player. Nonetheless I will always love the game of football.

Playing throughout high school, coaching football hadn’t really crossed my mind. I thought it was cool to see what coaches do but I didn’t really take an interest to it. My coaches would often tell me that I would be a good coach but I just kind of shrugged it off and didn’t pay much attention to it. That’s coming from multiple state championship winning coaches. The more they talked about it the more I took note. I just the love the game of football and the things that go into it.

I began to rediscover the love of football, the things that go into it, and why I loved it in the first place.

Before I got into coaching one thing I did do was coach and help out at sports and youth camps. Just running around and having fun. It gave me an amazing feeling that revitalized my interest and I began to see a future for me coaching.

One thing that got me more interested in coaching is what it can do for others. Coaches are some of the most inspirational and influential people in the lives of athletes and others. Being able to inspire and encourage others means so much to me and I feel like coaching is a great way to achieve that. A couple of college football coaches I look up to are Dan Mullen from UF, Dabo swiney from Clemson, and Nick Saban from Alabama. I like the way they carry themselves and the effort they put into coaching- but I also like how they turn teenagers into men. A formal NFL coach I look up to is Tony Dungy. One, because he coached one of my favorite teams in the Indianapolis colts and another thing is that he took a lot of pride in developing the players he coached.

My old high school varsity coach met with me and said that he thinks I should coach. I kinda was like are you serious? But he said I would be great at it. I took some time to think about it and I decided I’d give it a try.

So here I am. A 20 year old football coach. Coaching for the 2019 season. It’s weird for me to even think about. Like “man a 20 year old coaching football”. It’s baffling to say the least. I’m the youngest coach on the staff and I’m not even that far off in age with some of the players. It kinda makes me feel old sometimes. I always say “I May be 20 but I feel like I’m 30” . That may be a stretch but you get the idea.

It’s funny how some of the kids I coach will talk trash to me and tell me they’re better than me. I like the confidence but I tell them it’s going be a while before you can pull one over on your coach. I coach the wide receivers and defensive backs on a middle school team. I played defensive back in high school. I know a great deal about the defensive back position and the wide receiver position, but I really have the mind of a quarterback. Just how they process and see certain things. I’m the same way.

As a coach I want my players to be able to talk to me or come to me for advice. I feel like I’m a players coach in that aspect.

In closing, my perspective as a player and coach are different but alike in some ways. My time as a player certainly allows me to see their perspectives and lends to how I coach them as well as my game planning. Some players are coaches on the field. As a player I’d try to be in my coach’s ear as much as possible. Asking questions and trying to learn and get better. I’m the same way as a coach. I’m really eager to learn and improve. That was the same approach I had as a player. I have followed through with that as a coach. Even now though, my player instincts will kick in. Sometimes I simply can’t resist running with the players and catching a pass or two.

As a coach, of course the goal is to win a championship but I want the players I coach to grow as men as well. Winning is important but I feel like how they are off the field can be the basis of how they are on the field.

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