The Heart of Football: Why the Small College Game Matters

by Phil Maas

Overview

Small College Football captures The Heart of Football, the joy, the passion, the heartache ... It is life.

Small college football is everyone from anywhere working to become a team. How this mission impacts the players and coaches striving to achieve it is more important today than ever before.

In The Heart of Football-players tell you why they play, coaches tell you why they coach, and everyone involved in the game tells you why they love football so much.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162847069
Publisher:	Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.
Publication date:	09/21/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

My first teaching job was at Coachella Valley High School in Thermal, California. They hired me because I was fluent in Spanish. When they learned that I’d played football in high school and college, they asked me to coach the freshman team. I didn’t know it at the time, but my love affair with coaching would grow from the first day some kid called me “coach,” to this day, some fifty years later, when The Heart of Football is to be published.

During my teaching career, I have taught all sorts of classes from bi-lingual
math and algebra to world history. For many years I was the Spanish
Department Chairperson at Siskiyous. We did Spanish-abroad classes to
Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela and Spain for at least ten
summers. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have visited all of these
beautiful places and to have gotten to know so many wonderful people along the way.

During those fifty years I have coached at two high schools, two junior colleges, and one team in Europe. I coached at Coachella Valley High School, North Monterey County High School, College of the Desert, College of the Siskiyous, all in California, and The Graz Giants, in Graz, Austria. For some reason I can’t quite explain, I’ve always lived on the outer edges of life. I’ve lived in Indio, Prunedale, and Weed, all places in California that nobody has heard of, and coached at those institutions mentioned above, which are equally unknown, but I’ve loved every moment of it.

My family has always been my greatest source of strength. My wife, Justina, and my sons, Kevin and Shannon are the rocks in my life. My grandchildren Naomi, Maya, Ameera, Avery, and Isabelle give me hope for the future because of their unbridled love of life.

I love the outdoors, the out of the way places, the out of the way people who inhabit them, and the people who either live in them or want to come to places like these to play football. For me it is the best of all worlds!”