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Mitchell Brown studied football under legendary Palm Bay High football coach Dan Burke twice, separated by about eight years.
Now, the 2016 Palm Bay graduate is the new head coach for the Pirates program, and he’s looking to make a connection to the best of the school’s football history. Mitchell was officially named to the job five days before Christmas of last year, following a season of Burke returning as head coach to stabilize the program during a coaching transition period.
The 2024 coaching staff already has a familiar look.
“A lot of people are happy to see alumni come back. (We’ve added) my brother (Stuart Brown), Mike (Degory), Bata (Cvetkovic) to the coaching staff,” Mitchell Brown said. “There haven’t been a lot of former guys come around a lot. We want to change that.
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“The administration is happy that there are a lot of alumni that care about this program and where it’s been. Our focus is to get it back to where it was, the tradition part of it.”
Under Burke, the tradition included 221 career wins — the most by anyone coaching football at a Brevard County school — 22 appearances in the playoffs and two state championships. Brown himself played center for Burke, while Degory was an offensive lineman both at Palm Bay and with the Florida Gators. Brother Stuart Brown was a quarterback and Cvetkovic a lineman right next to Degory.
It was during his own playing days that Mitchell first learned from Burke. Last year, he found himself in a similar role, sort of a head-coach-in-waiting, gradually taking more and more responsibility for the team’s activities.
“Really, from the start of it, he gave me a lot on my plate,” Brown said, “whether it was the paperwork side of it, the booster club side of it, scheduling, dealing with the…
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Author : Florida Today
Publish date : 2024-07-13 21:07:23
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