Football starting up again for Your Call Football!
After zipping south to Jacksonville, Florida from the Detroit area with stops in Kentucky and Atlanta (to visit my younger son Corey) finally made it to the Hyatt down along the riverfront.
Dropped the boss (wife) off to stay in Atlanta a few days with Corey and Taylor.
Set up my personal camp in Jacksonville and with the arrival of my friend John Marshall on Friday and Kurt Schottenheimer on Saturday we began to pull our staff together. This is going to be a great experience for all of us old former NFL coaches. We all know each other and we all love working around each other!
The second edition of Your Call football is going to be a lot of fun although I will only be able to stay for the first few weeks. I have committed to travel to my beloved second home in Switzerland to coach football there. So – I will have some fun here – jump in a jet to Zurich and have some there! Hah! What a life!
Former Pittsburgh Steeler great Merril Hoge is heading up our coaching staff and Solomon Wilcots will be his opponent as a head coach. But some exceptional leadership from Julie Meringer and our director Collin Vataha make our organization adds to s\the strength of this organization.
We had a lot of fun working out of Dodgertown in Vero Beach last year and the camaraderie of our coaching staff was unbelievable. Well, maybe it shouldn’t be seen that way – since all of us old coaches pretty much know each other and we are friends.
Truly last year was a great experience for me. Obviously – the coaching is a lot of fun. But, the renewal of my friendship with many fellow coaches I haven’t seen for many years made it a very special six weeks.
Today I looked around the lunch room and was amazed at the level of coaching experience in that room. Just at my table alone – John Marshall, Kurt Schottenheimer, Mark Duffner and Ray Sherman.
Lets look at John…..OK a NFL coordinator who has won two of the three Super bowls he was in, two National Championship rings in NCAA, also a State High School Championship from Oregon. OK Kurt – NFL defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator, head coach in the UFL.
Mark Duffner – College head coach with an amazing 60-5-1 record at Holy Cross, 20-35 record at Maryland, longtime linebacker coach and defensive coordinator. Awesome man and coach. Ray Sherman a longtime receiver coach and offensive coordinator throughout the NFL.
That’s just at the table I was sitting at! Eye popping! What a great learning opportunity is sitting in front of me. This will be a fantastic experience for me.
The players will start filtering in tomorrow…then the real fun will begin!