There’s a development occurring round Tampa Bay space excessive colleges — they’re hiring former Tampa Bay Buccaneers broad receivers as head coaches.
“People just love receivers, bottom line,” Michael Clayton stated. “More so, this is a wonderful community to live in. Once you’ve given it your all here on the field in Tampa Bay it’s kind of hard to be removed from the atmosphere.”
Wharton High School has Mike Williams, Gibbs High has Louis Murphy, and Manatee High has Jacquez Green.
The latest former Bucs cross catcher to turn out to be a highschool head coach is Clayton at Plant City.
“I always wanted to be a head coach,” Clayton instructed ABC Action News sports activities anchor Kyle Burger. “This was something else on my bucket list simply because through my experience, I have all of the treasures and all of the knowledge that a young athlete would want to make it to the next level.”
Clayton performed 9 seasons within the NFL (six with the Bucs), even successful a Super Bowl with the New York Giants. He additionally received a school soccer nationwide championship underneath head coach Nick Saban at LSU.
“I take it all. Being part of Coach Saban, we call ourselves the blueprint,” he stated. “We were his first national championship at LSU. We have a saying here, we say it all the time they now put it on t-shirts, that ‘we will not deviate.’ That means everything that I have lived, everything that I have experienced from high school to college to pro. I take them through the same things.”
He needs to convey the “process,” as Saban would say to Plant City, and make the Raiders one of many county’s prime packages but once more.
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“It’s not a change in culture, but a change in standard,” senior linebacker Cole Highsmith stated. “The standard and expectations is more, and unites us as a brotherhood and team.”
“He definitely brings out the positive and good mindset to the program,” operating again Dom Jones added. “I look forward to coming to practice to get his energy.”
The Raiders are coming off a 6-5 season however convey again a gifted core of gamers and a few rising freshman stars like defensive sort out Te’Marce Miller.
“It doesn’t matter how big he is; I don’t think nobody can block me,” Miller stated. “Me, myself, I’m just a dog. I can get passed anybody in front of me. Ain’t nobody can stop me right now.”
“When he put on the pads, he is one of the players that pop off on the screen every single play,” Clayton stated of Miller. “When you have that as a freshman, I’m telling you, we have something special brewing here at Plant City.”
The new head coach has additionally upgraded the locker room with discipline turf changing a tough ground.
“It feels like home,” Miller stated. “Everything we do in that locker room is home. Get your stress out, like you floating on the cloud.”
And home has rules, like don’t step on the logo, which I accidentally violated during my visit.
“It doesn’t matter who you are, male or female, if you step on the logo in our locker room, you’re going to drop down and give us 25 (push-ups),” Clayton stated. “You’re now welcomed into the family, and we love you for that.”