He served as the head football coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1992 to 1997, compiling a record of 3530. And because the clock stops after first downs, touchdowns and incompletions, Texas Tech's games are among the longest in college football. var photocredit = "'COURTESY UMass ATHLETICS' 'Former UMass football coach Dick MacPherson has died. he went straight to Pepperdine law school, where he graduated, at the age of 25, in the top third of his class. Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in. Head Football Coach david.davis@howard.edu: Lee Hull: Offensive Coordinator lee.hull@howard.edu: Troy Douglas: Defensive Coordinator troy.douglas@howard.edu: Vernon Hargreaves: Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Line Coach vernon.hargreaves@howard.edu: Da'Vaun Johnson: Running Backs Coach Following a national search, FIU has named two-time national coach of the year Mike MacIntyre as the sixth head coach of the football program, FIU Athletic Director Scott Carr announced on Thursday. He begins his next professional venture in. That year Oklahoma went from 101st to 8th in the country in offensive scoring. They're already a little slow. After the 1989 season, Hodges left Thomasville and joined Tim Stowers staff at Georgia Southern as assistant head coach and offensive line coach. The end of this football game was shaping up disturbingly like last year's game against S.M.U., which had been, by Leachean standards, a low-scoring affair. 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"Mike was a giving and . - Eastern Illinois men's basketball wrapped up the regular season last week and on Tuesday (Feb. 28) two players were honored by the Ohio Valley Conference as the league announced its end of season awards. Hodges worked closely with former Saints coach Mike Nolan the last few years, so it made sense to bump him up once Nolan left for the defensive coordinator job on Mike McCarthys new Dallas Cowboys staff. var sellablestring3 = "STAFF FILE PHOTO"; EVANSVILLE, Ind. There was no skating lane; truth to tell, there wasn't a lot of in-line skating going on in Lubbock. The two has worked together at North Medford. This article is about the former head coach at UMass. Charles W. Caldwell Jr. '25 Head Coach of Football. Anyone can read what you share. Texas Tech tries to run 90 -- and sometimes does. AP Hodges. Hands sought hands and clasped. Finally, A.&M. records. Don't Threaten. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. And when they do, you have a bunch of people on the other team doing things they don't have much experience doing." He was enthusiastic and tough. just to see how the defenders would respond and which way they would run after the ball was snapped. All rights reserved. When a play doesn't work, he puts an X next to it. Former Georgia Southern University football assistant coach Mike Hodges was inducted into the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame on June 2 in Dalton. "No. COURTESY UMass ATHLETICS Before MSU. As they came off the field following Tuesdays practice, the UMass football coaches learned that former coach Dick MacPherson had died. It was just a shock effect. Leach isn't really sure that there's anything a coach can say to football players minutes before a game that will inspire them to put aside their pain and their problems and play their best. They were no longer names; they were numbers. He also effectively taught his schemes, constantly putting his players in positions to win. ("Yeah, her side of the family flipped.") var sellablestring4 = "GAZETTE FILE PHOTO"; each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Led an offense that led the OVC in scoring in 2021 with 27.6 point per game. It is the index finger and the pinkie, not the thumb and the pinkie. Sam Barbee photo Buy Now The typical football offense seeks to eat up as much of it as it can. To dramatize the point, the professor played a video of especially shocking blows delivered in college and pro football. His first year coaching Division 1 college football was 1997, at the University of Kentucky. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. Devlin "Duck" Hodges was born on April 12, 1996 in Kimberly, AL. His passions are for students and their success, Kay said. When Hodges interviewed for the HHS job, the choice was obvious, Thompson said. 6:40 pm. He's mad at Mike for trying to score. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. The Republican file photo Former football coach Mike Hodges is retiring from UMass after 33 years. I dont have any other problems anywhere. 2023 New Orleans Saints. Daily Hampshire Gazette. Stephanie Julian . Details regarding Elko's introductory . There was one other thing Leach had noticed -- and Hodges had noticed it, too. ", "Thinking man's football" is a bit like "classy stripper": if the adjective modifies the noun too energetically, it undermines the nature of the thing. var currentLocation = window.location; Under Hodges' guidance in 2021, Demario Davis led the team with 105 tackles (70 solo) and added three sacks and seven passes defensed as he was selected as an Associated Press second-team All-Pro. 7:55 pm. It says that theres an analytic side to calling a game as an offensive coordinator, and he knows what his numbers are and what his percentages are and he trusts his play, Olson said. var sellablestring2 = "STAFF PHOTO"; Mike Leach, the 2018 AFCA National Coach of the Year and Pac-12 Coach of the Year, is set to begin his eighth season leading the Washington State Cougar football . RIP, Matt Vautour can be reached at mvautour@gazettenet.com. Knutz said Hodges would complain about his hips every bus ride. "The guy starts poking me in the chest -- Bam! I approached Coach London and told him that was my goal and he did a lot to help mentor me as well as the other coaches on the staff.. Now they were 7-1, ranked 15th and still within sniffing distance of a major bowl game. But before the S.M.U. COURTESY UMass ATHLETICS cornerbacks were disguising their intentions. Michael Hodges (born September 29, 1986) is an American football coach who is the linebackers coach for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). After the interviews concluded, Thompson knew the guy from Nevada Mark Hodges was the guy. defensive back was caught mouthing into a television camera, "They aren't going to score." Judge Waring started taking on Civil. All rights reserved (About Us). "Word got around campus that this guy had this great tape, and the place was jammed. H is also supposed to adjust his plans according to how the defense lines up: if it looks as if the defenders will blitz -- that is, rush in to get the quarterback -- H runs a quick slant across the middle of the field so that the quarterback can throw to him immediately. Former UMass football coach Dick MacPherson, center, has died. Players were surprised initially, but the signs were there. Share with Us. (817) 257-7986. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. Football coach Football coach Alternative titles for this job include Football coaches develop the skills and motivation of football players and teams. var currentheadline = document.getElementById("headline").innerText; Three years ago, Hicks was a widely ignored receiver playing for a high school in Houston. Hodges threw to four different receivers, at eight different spots on the field. . MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. Hermiston High School head football coach Mark Hodges talks with his players after their evening practice Wednesday evening on Kennison Field. James River will open its season against L.C. Program Development Courses Q&A with Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban by 270 $19.99 Building a Program Culture with Coaches & Players- Kirk Thor by Kirk Thor Views: 1532 $19.99 The last 20 years have been an odd journey, with coaching jobs at College of the Desert, Cal Poly, Iowa Wesleyan, Valdosta State and a European league team in Pori, Finland. With 15 seconds left, Texas Tech was ahead, 27-13. 25-yard line. 4. Leach read from his favorite pirate history, "Under the Black Flag," by David Cordingly (the passages about homosexuality on pirate ships had been crossed out). "The only information he ever asks for at halftime is the distribution," Hodges says. Mike Hodges Mike Hodges. Hodges has helped evaluate and coach Saints players like Alex Anzalone, Kiko Alonso, and Demario Davis. //LBtag_id.innerHTML = ''; I cant even put into words what he meant to me in developing as a player. . "You get good push, but if you got to run around a lot, you get tired." Finally he looked up from the grasshopper. Following the 1991 season he was named the school's head coach after Jim Reid resigned following budget disagreements with administration. UMass Amherst Athletics Football Coaching History - University of Massachusetts Athletics Skip to main content Football Coaching History Text Football Coaching History Coaching History Name Years as Coach Games Won Lost Tied Pct. The man who made the moment possible by refusing to do anything but what he loves to do smiled, and for just a few seconds his mind was present and accounted for. I hadnt really brought that up, he smiled. On the other hand, he wasn't sure it wouldn't. Two weeks earlier, his team was ranked seventh in the country but then lost badly to the University of Texas, the nation's No. He was never married to a certain style. Get the latest news, stats, videos, highlights and more about linebacker Michael Hodges on ESPN. The football field was huge and green and empty. "When you first meet him," Jarrett Hicks, a junior wide receiver, told me, "you think he's an equipment manager." front line appeared tired. Because he's not doing things because that's the way they've always been done. Mike Hodges Director of Football Operations. "How come they get to pretend they are soldiers?" //var LBtag_id = document.getElementById('buylinkLBUMassFootball-hg-080917,ph03'); var currentheadline = document.getElementById("headline").innerText; This was his 30th year coaching, Olson said. One day he announced to his wife, Sharon -- soon to be pregnant with their second child -- that what he really wanted to be was a college football coach. HIT THE QUARTERBACK!" -- for Oklahoma or Texas there wouldn't be a single player -- to whom Texas Tech would not have offered a football scholarship. They had just beaten Texas A.&M. When MacPherson left UMass, his assistant coach Bob Pickett was promoted to head coach and Hodges was hired as an assistant. Hodges then succeeded the legendary Nick Hyder at West Rome when Hyder took over at Valdosta High. "I don't even think there's such a thing as the perfect play. mainly because the pros hired the famous coaches from the old-money schools, on the premise that those who won the most games were the best coaches. ", Stepping out into Jones SBC Stadium, surrounded by people wearing self-conscious looks of grim determination, Leach was even easier than usual to identify: he was the one guy wandering about, as Meeks has put it, "with this look on his face like he's walking around an airport, lost." And, as if for the first time, he noticed that he wasn't exactly alone. MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (WWBT) - Take a look at area high school football programs and youll notice a handful of former UVA players roaming the sidelines as head coaches. -- and screaming," Wylie says. The chances of that happening can't be great, though. But he was still smiling, still encouraging, still teaching. Be Proactive. Hodges knows -- the players all do -- that their coach is a walking parenthesis, without a companion to bracket his stray thoughts. Those schools fish first in the local-talent pool. "Mike was different," says Patty Ross, who has long served as an assistant to Texas Tech head football coaches and who didn't know what to make of this new one. True, he had shaved ("It's a good idea to shave for TV games") and shed his flip-flops, his "Hawaii Five-O" baggy shirts and his board shorts for an outfit that looked vaguely coachlike. The four wide receivers fanned out, two on each side, and the lone back stood several steps to the right of the quarterback. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, You and me.". With 15 seconds left, Leach leaned into the field and called a timeout. Some years you can win a championship and some years you may not win a championship, but the bottom line is the relationships you build with the coaches and players, Hodges said. Terry Hodges . This marks his 19th year in the National Football League coaching ra Tonight there would be very few players on the field for Texas A.&M. Lamb asked Hodges to visit him in Commerce and discuss taking a job teaching science, and trying his hand in coaching, while taking a break from college before entering dental school. DO -- YOUR -- JOB!". Not being able to be around them and the day-to-day activities and laughing it up with them and enjoying the time I have with them and, of course, the players thats what Im going to miss the most, is the relationships., 2000-2004, Assistant Coach, South Medford, 1994-1999, Assistant Coach, North Medford, 1991-1993, Graduate Assistant, Southern Oregon University, 46-28, 2 league championships, 1 state championship, 2014: 12-1, 1st in Columbia River Conference, beat Silverton 3, 2013: 6-4, 1st in Columbia River Conference, lost to Dallas 41-35 in Round 1 of state playoffs, 2012: 5-3, 2nd in Columbia River Conference, lost to Marist 68-22 in quarterfinals of state playoffs, 2011: 6-5, 2nd in Columbia River Conference, lost to Sherwood 59-22 in Round 1 of state playoffs, 2010: 3-7, 4th in Columbia River Conference, lost to Jefferson 55-6 in Play-in Round of state playoffs, 2009: 7-4, 3rd in Intermountain Conference, lost to Crater 31-14 in Round 2 of state playoffs, 2008: 7-4, 2nd in Intermountain Conference, lost to Glencoe 30-27 in quarterfinals of state playoffs. Former football coach Mike Hodges is retiring from UMass after 33 years. The thought struck him when he was driving and spotted, in the distance, a sloppily dressed middle-aged man in-line skating down the center of the road. var sellablestring = "GAZETTE STAFF"; Cody Hodges rolled out and, when he might well have simply run the ball into the end zone, threw an interception. or anything. //var LBtag_id = document.getElementById('buylinkLBUMassFootball-hg-080917,ph02'); really stood out as potential Day 1 starters Mississippi State's Emmanuel Forbes and TCU's Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson. Hodges led all of college football in passing. Quitman, GA. They may or may not have been fatter -- Leach insists they were -- but their bodies were clearly designed for a different sort of football game than this frenetic one. Hodges is already hard at work for the Saints, Hodges reportedly ran draft prospect interviews at the Senior Bowl, and should do so again at. Leach prefers new formations. They are testing a limit. They have also lived in Pinetown, NC and Pantego, NC. }, Former UMass football coach Dick MacPherson, center, has died. he asked. For homework, we'll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.". var sellablestring4 = "GAZETTE FILE PHOTO"; HIT HIM! (Later, watching a videotape of the incident, Leach actually says, "Johnson's got to do a better job holding.") "They were doing it because they were smarter. The third result is Mike Hodges age 60s in Washington, NC. Back in the early 1980's, when he was a student at B.Y.U., he spotted a poster for a seminar, "Violence in American Sports." This will last longer than metal or plastic implants, while letting Hodges do everything he wants to do except run long distance, he said. To prepare his receivers' ankles and knees for the unusual punishment of his nonstop-running offense, Leach has installed a 40-yard-long sand pit on his practice field; slogging through the sand, he says, strengthens the receivers' joints. And when they finish sprinting, they move to Leach's tennis-ball bazookas. When he was an assistant coach at Colby, its staff annually visited Amherst to take in a UMass practice and talk football. Because we haven't scored yet.". Hodges was co-defensive coordinator at Eastern Illinois, Before joining the Saints, Hodges rose in the ranks to earn a top spot at Sean. Second round draft pick Pete Werner finished with 59 tackles, while starting 8-of-15 games in his first professional season. His record as a football coach was 53-13-3 and he held a record of 124-67 as a baseball coach. The team's tailback, Taurean Henderson, had broken the N.C.A.A. They aren't built to run around that much. He ran for an effortless 11 yards and a first down. . Mike holds the Diploma in Financial Planning and has extensive experience in providing trusted planning . On its third series, the Tech center cut his hand and began bleeding profusely; instead of telling anyone, or wiping it off, he snapped a blood-drenched ball that slithered out of Hodges's hand as he prepared to throw, and the huge loss of yards killed the drive. Graduate Assistant - Creative Video | 2nd Season. Coaches used Hermiston as a jumping off point for another job. He brought it to a level of respect.. The look was more flag than tackle football: a truly fantastic number of players racing around trying to catch passes on every play, and a quarterback surprisingly able to keep an eye on all of them. He was really good for this place.. //var LBtag_id = document.getElementById('buylinkLBUMassMacPherson-hg-080917,ph05'); In 2022, Charlie Skalaski is in his first season at the Racers' Chief of Staff and will work with the defensive part of the team. var sellablestring2 = "STAFF PHOTO"; Mike's personality was like that, too. https://saintswire.usatoday.com/gallery/nfl-2020-saints-michael-hodges-texas-a-m-football-news/, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Hodges joined elite company which includes legendary Valdosta coaches Wright Bazemore and Nick Hyder, former Warner Robins and Westside/Macon coach Robert Davis, and former Screven County basketball coach Harold Lee Scott. var photocredit = photocredit.toUpperCase(); But if you let him react to what he sees, there's a ton of touchdowns to be had." var currentheadline = document.getElementById("headline").innerText; In 1984, Hodges moved to Thomasville, where he had great success. A typical N.F.L. They suspect, but aren't certain, that his wide-ranging curiosity benefits their offense. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/coach-leach-goes-deep-very-deep.html. MacPherson was at Syracuse when current UMass offensive line coach Mike Foley was an assistant coach at Colgate. THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Rams head coach Sean McVay has said that quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and John Wolford won't play in the preseason. Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in. Everybody was cheering the hits. var sellablestring2 = "STAFF PHOTO"; In this part of the country, the University of Texas and Oklahoma University are the old-money football schools, with Texas A.&M. He applied to become the head coach of the . Friday morning, Hodges eased around the weight room, his arthritic hips fighting him every step. clustered in one end zone. What he did for me and everyone else on the team goes beyond recognition.. Art Candi Jones . '"; Three more times in the first half Texas Tech had the ball and each time it failed to score. Up in the sky boxes, the wife of an Aggie assistant coach insulted every female Red Raider in earshot by saying that at least she lived in College Station instead of Lubbock. Get UMass coverage delivered in your Facebook news feed at www.facebook.com/GazetteUMassCoverage. DURHAM - Duke University formally announced Mike Elko as the next head coach of the football program in a press conference at KD and Sarah Lynn Kennedy Field at Pascal Field House on Monday . Leach doesn't expect receivers to go entirely uncovered -- though in the confusion he creates, that happens a lot -- but he does assume he will get single defenders covering a couple of them. The football stadium was falling apart and the field was poor quality. var currentheadline = document.getElementById("headline").innerText; Olson said the enthusiasm was noticeable then. Hes already been around 23 years before he got to Hermiston. Chris Roppe. Then he spotted a giant grasshopper on the turf. The press had descended on him, to ask him to describe just how happy he felt. var photocredit = "'COURTESY UMass ATHLETICS' 'Former UMass football coach Dick MacPherson, center, has died. Leach and his offense are approaching the natural end of a path football strategy has been taking for 50 years. MacPherson, 86, coached at UMass from 1971-1977. From 2014-15, Hodges tutored the linebackers. ANOTHER NEW COACH has joined the UMass staff in former defensive lineman Malik Hall, who will take over coaching the defensive line. Twenty thousand natural-born underdogs roared the winner's roar. Even now, their beloved coach had his left arm in the air, wielding his imaginary sword. Thompson said he was surprised, but the reasons and rationale given by the coach put it in perspective for him. "He's furious. Mike Hodges. Marks found ways to adjust. Following in his Father's footsteps, he graduated from the University of Florida in 1975 with a B.A.