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SUN Coaches Podcast

High School football discourse including stories, job openings, and anecdotes from all coaches under the SUN!

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59:49

Sam Barrs LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/04/15

Coach Barrs is one of the best to ever do it. He spent 24 years as a HFC winning 164 games at several different stops. He took 3 different schools to at least the quarters or further in the state playoffs and won 6 region championships. Coach Barrs is one of the true gentleman of the game and is regarded by his peers as one of the best to have ever roamed the sidelines. A native of Cochran, Coach Barrs built programs on paying attention to details and discipline. I hope you enjoy Coach Barrs'

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53:07

Dr. Danny Cronic LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/04/10

Coach Cronic is a true LEGEND. A native of Athens GA, Coach later moved to Madison County, Coach Cronic has coached at both the high school and college levels. He has revived programs in high school and built a college program from the ground up. Thought by his peers to be one of the most intelligent men to ever grace the sidelines, Coach Cronic was one of the most innovative coaches during his tenures wherever he was. I hope you enjoy hearing Dr. Danny Cronic tell his story!

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54:08

Roger Holmes HFC Dublin LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/04/08

Roger Holmes has probably forgotten more about winning football games than most coaches know about winning them. A native of Tennessee, Coach Holmes went to MTSU where he walked on and then started his high school coaching career in Tennessee before coming to Georgia. What he has accomplished at Dublin is beyond impressive. Not only is he closing in on winning 300 games in his career, but he has won 2 state titles at Dublin. Coach Holmes also has one of the premier coaching clinics that he has

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66:07

Jason Strickland HFC Ware County LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/04/03

Coach Strickland is a winner. Period. A native of Clinch County, Strick cites coaches Don Tison and Cecil Barber (2 legends) as being the most influential in his desire to enter this profession. He started with Jeff Lee at Twiggs and went from there. Working with great staffs and learning from some of the best, Coach Strickland won state titles as and assistant before going on to becoming a HFC and one of the most successful ones we have in the state now. I hope you enjoy Coach Jason

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46:00

Erik Soliday HFC Tift Area LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/04/01

Coach Soliday is one of the last of the hard. He is originally from West Virginia where he played high school football, basketball, and ran track. He played college football as well. He started his career as a GA, coached for 4 years at his alma mater and headed south to interview and stopped in Turner County. He spent the next 30 years as a HFC in GA winning 2 state titles and 232 games to date. He is plain spoken, funny as hell, and a great man and coach. I hope you enjoy Coach Soliday's

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45:24

Joey King HFC Carrollton LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/27

Coach King is a younger LEGEND. He is a native of Cedartown where he played three sports in high school. He went on to play QB at Carson Newman collegiately before starting his high school career. Coach King has also had two stops in the college ranks as an assistant before returning to college. He has won 2 state championships as a HFC and is averaging 12.8 wins a year as a HFC. I hope you enjoy Coach Joey King's story!

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49:30

Rance Gillespie HFC Rabun County LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/25

Coach Gillespie has done a lot at many levels. A native of NE GA, Coach Gillespie graduated from Rabun County High School and walked on at the University of Georgia. After college, he went on to be an assistant for some of the legends of the game like George Bobo, Charles Winslette, and Rodney Walker before striking out on his own. Coach has been a college coach at Georgia Southern twice and always returned to the high school game. I hope you enjoy Coach Gillespie's story!

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43:12

Frank Barden HFC Christian Heritage LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/20

Coach Barden is one of the finest men in the business. A native of Habersham County, Frank played his college ball at West Georgia and started his coaching career with the legendary Coach Rodney Walker. Coach Barden has gone on to be one of the winningest coaches in Georgia High School football playing for state titles five times and winning the 1999 title at Cartersville. Coach Barden is a man of strong faith and that is evident in hearing his story. I hope you enjoy it!

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85:25

Rayvan Teague LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/18

Coach Teague is a self-proclaimed "hillbilly" raised in NW GA. As a Billy Henderson disciple, Coach Teague was mentored early in his career by one of the Legends of Georgia High School football. He took the model he learned from Coach Henderson and employed it as the HFC at Lafayette, Swainsboro, and Carrollton to have a Hall of Fame career. I hope you enjoy Rayvan Teague's story as much as I enjoyed recording it!

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55:42

Rich Fendley HFC Bowdon LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/13

Coach Rich Fendley is a coach's kid. A native of Warner Robins GA, Coach Fendley played at Warner Robins and then at West Georgia. Rich has been one of the best weight room guys in the business over the past 30 years and has led the Bowdon Red Devils to 3 consecutive sate football titles. His story is one of perseverance and overcoming adversity. I hope you enjoy Coach Rich Fendley!

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54:50

Dr. Franklin Stephens HFC Burke County LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/11

Franklin Stephens is native of Keysville GA in Burke County. He is now the HFC at Burke County High School. A two time All American at Georgia Southern, Coach Stephens would return to Burke County to begin his coaching career. Coach has won over 180 games and 2 state titles has a HFC and taken 4 different schools to the semi-finals or further over his career as a HFC. He is definitely one of the last of the hard! I hope you enjoy his story!

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48:16

Steve Pardue LaGrange College AD, LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/06

Coach Pardue is a native of Kentucky. Coach has coached high school ball in Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia. He has also coached at the college level at the University of Kentucky and as the HFC at Lagrange College. Coach Pardue won a state title as an assistant at Lagrange before taking over as the HFC and going on to win 3 state titles as the HFC. I hope you enjoy Coach Pardue's story!

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57:04

Chip Walker HFC Newnan HS, LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/03/04

Coach Walker is the son of a legend that has become one in his own right. He has currently racked up 171 wins and 3 state titles as a HFC. A graduate of Stephens County High School, Coach Walker went on to play QB at Tusculum. He then started his high school coaching career under the legendary Dan Pitts at Mary Persons High School in Forsyth GA. Coach Walker then went with his father Coach Rodney Walker to Sandy Creek High School as the OC and later became the HFC. He is now the HFC at Newnan HS

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107:39

Rick Tomberlin LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/02/27

A native of Baxley Ga, Coach "T" went on to play collegiately at Florida State University for Bobby Bowden. Coach Tomberlin went on to be a HFC at 9 different schools winning 270 games, 3 state championships, and affecting countless young people's lives. Coach has also been very active in BFS over the years and still works out and is in awesome shape. Coach Tomberlin is one of the the true legends in Georgia High School football history and I hope you enjoy his story!

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73:01

Jeff Herron LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/02/25

Coach Herron has done a lot that other coaches in Georgia have done. He has won over 300 games. He's won a pile of region championships. He has affected the lives of countless people over his career. Coach has been inducted into numerous Halls of Fame including the National High School Coach's Hall of Fame. One thing that he has done that NO OTHER COACH in Georgia has ever done is won a state championship at three different schools! A winner of 5 total as a HFC, Coach Herron's legendary career

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101:54

Charles Winslette LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/02/20

Coach Winslette won 260 games as a HFC at Fayette County, Statesboro, West Rome, Greene-Tailaferro, Coffee County, Tift County, and Stephens County. He won 2 state championships as HFC at West Rome and Greene, one of 14 coaches in state history to win one at two different schools. He is one of only TWO coaches with over 250 wins to take 4 different teams to the semis and win 2 state championships. A native of Putnam County, "Papa Wins" as a lot of us younger guys call him, Coach Winslette played

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46:34

Alan Chadwick HFC Marist GA LEGEND

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/02/18

Coach Chadwick is the 2nd All Time winningest coach in the history of the state of Georgia. He has won 3 state championships as the HFC at Marist and has been on the staff for almost 50 years there in some capacity. A native of Decatur GA, Coach Chadwick was a star high school and college player that had an opportunity to play professionally as well. His story is not nearly done justice in this little amount of time that he took to share with us, but I am so glad he did! I hope you enjoy Coach

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45:41

Jamie Aull HFC North Atlanta High School GA

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/02/11

Coach Aull is one of the best in the business. Not only is he one of the sharpest offensive minds in the business, but he is one of the best men leading men we have. Coach is a "metro" guy, meaning he grew up metro, has always coached metro, and he gets what it takes to be successful in the metro Atlanta area. I hope you enjoy Jamie's story as much as I enjoyed talking with him!

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49:00

Kareem Reid HFC McEachern High School GA

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/02/06

Coach Reid has one of the most interesting coaching stories ever. He grew up north of Miami and played college football at Kentucky and finished up at UCF. He then "walked on" as a coach after working in the professional world and has never looked back. Coach Reid has been an assistant high school, and college coach as well as the HFC of 4 different programs in 2 different states. I hope you enjoy Kareem's story and how he pours into his kids!

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57:24

Craig Bennett HFC Pickens County GA

SUN Coaches Podcast ·

2025/02/04

Coach Bennett is one of the last of the hard. Coach grew up on a chicken farm and went on to play college football at UTC and West Georgia. He had a long career as an assistant in Cobb and Fulton Counties before opening Cambridge High School where he spent 12 years there as the HFC. Coach Bennett has coach at the private school level, public as an assistant and HFC, and has some great perspective on this profession. I nope you enjoy Coach Bennett's story!

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