Well I’ve got a lot going on, and at the same time not much. I’ve left Iowa and headed back to Richmond. Currently looking for work – I’m hoping to get a high school head job, but if that doesn’t happen I’ll be happy just to have a job teaching and coaching high school here. Lots of things led to the decision, not the least of which was money, distance, and the prospect of moving constantly. If anyone out there reading this is in the Richmond area and might have an opening for a coach on your staff and History teacher, I’m not too proud to beg!

Anyway, along with that is some good news. I do have a real world job that will start in February, to get me through til August or so at least. In the mean time, I have a lot of notes from the recent AFCA Convention that I’ll be typing up. Gary Patterson was great, Lou Holtz mesmerizing. Mack Brown was hilarious, and the worst decision made was to put Mike Singletary at the end of a four hour session. Good speaker, but not really energizing.

The first set of notes is posted in html format here – these are my notes from Chris Petersen (Boise State), who talked about his philosophy for all aspects of the program. Great stuff on developing players, a winning tradition, and being a great assistant on your staff. Just click on Chris Petersen – Coaching Philosophy

I’ll also be transferring all of the notes from GridironChat.com over to Football-Defense.com pretty soon. I never expected it to happen, but the blog gets a whole heck of a lot more visitors than GIC ever did. So I’ll just condense the two, no reason to maintain two sites! Hope everyone is enjoying the new year, and if there’s any questions or problems with the clinic notes let me know. More to come!