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May 28—Being a first-year high school football head coach requires a lot of on-the-fly learning, especially during the transition from former program to new.
It’s a challenge being faced this spring at schools around the country, and Aiken County powerhouse Silver Bluff is one of them.
Luckily for Matt Hayes and the Bulldogs, the new ball coach knows his way around Petticoat Junction.
Hayes, a former Bulldog player and longtime assistant coach, wrapped up his first spring as head coach last week and said his strong ties to the school certainly have helped as he begins his tenure.
“Just blessed and humbled,” Hayes said. “Some of the coaching staff that I coached when I was here. The booster club president, Mr. Gurney Wiggins. My wife that teaches here, and knowing some of the administrators made the transition a little bit easier as far as communication as far as allowing me to meet with these guys and get in, having that foundation, knowing where my office is, knowing where the equipment room is, some of those new things that a new hire has to deal with, I was very familiar with.
“Some things change, but some things still remain the same. It’s all about the players. It really is. The players that I coached here, they all have some similar traits to these new players. Being a Silver Bluff football player is a little bit different. These guys got a lot of it. I just can’t wait to keep getting to work with them.”
His first spring has been an eventful one, to say the least, from the announcement in mid-March that he was taking the job following De’Angelo Bryant’s departure to a final week of practice that included the Bulldogs’ spring game and Philadelphia Eagle Tarron Jackson’s third annual youth football camp.
“First spring was a great experience for me. It really was,” he said. “Being still at Strom Thurmond (where he…
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Author : Aiken Standard, S.C.
Publish date : 2024-05-28 23:47:00
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