“He’s not going to play Division I football.” That’s what a Division I coach told Chris Cox, the defensive coordinator at Chris Jones’s high school (Houston High) in Mississippi. The skeptic couldn’t even be bothered to meet Jones. He assessed Jones’s prospects as he watched the “lanky” player approaching. Confident he’d seen enough, the […]
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Booming Columbus, OH is thick with former Ohio State Buckeye football players who are part of the boom. Their close ties with the school’s most prominent alums, and that were forged during their playing days, have set all too many up for life in an employment sense. The previous anecdote is probably the best
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After a successful head coaching career that included a .668 winning percentage (148-79), and one Super Bowl appearance (a victory), Tony Dungy was voted into the NFL Hall of Fame. Notable about Dungy is that his induction occurred in 2016. What makes it extra notable is that it took place four years before Jimmy
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