When I started my coaching career 29 years ago, the school I was coaching at attended football camp with the Carrollton Trojans and the legend, Coach Ben Scott. I had gotten the opportunity to play for Coach Scott in 1991 back when the GACA had the GA-FL high school all-star game in Orlando. He was a West Point graduate who chose to be a high school football coach after his military duties...i thought that was cool. Throughout my coaching career, I always liked to pick the brains of the legends in GHSA football. He was surely one of them. Coach Scott shared two things I carried through my years of coaching..."the best coaches coach their coaches". If you look at the two best in the business (Saban and Smart), they are not just managers, they can coach all aspects of the game. I believe it's one of the keys to program longevity. This ability separates the likes of Coach Smart from the rest. The second thing Coach Scott taught me was "no good deed goes unpunished"...truer words were never spoken.
