Refusing to punt made high school football coach Kevin Kelley a star. But can his mad science work in college?
CLINTON, S.C. — The man in the gray muscle shirt is wearing no whistle, and considering his approach to, well, everything, it seems unlikely he just forgot it. But as a kickoff drill begins, Kevin Kelley, the new head football coach of Presbyterian College, needs his players’ attention.
“I always looked at it that they were paying me to try to make those guys miserable, so I did my best at it,” Mumme says now. “It’s more fun than you can imagine.” His way was so successful, his profile growing so rapidly, that Kelley stood out even among data nerds — an iconoclast who refused to even consider another way.
So? Surrounded by fans and boosters and administrative fat cats, hungry after all these years for consistency and success, what would Acunto do?It’s a little after lunchtime on a Monday, though Kelley hasn’t eaten since last night. A while back, Kelley began keeping data on himself. His body is more efficient, he claims, when it’s in starvation mode.
“You missed the throw,” Kelley tells Hefley after one of his 12 incomplete passes against St. Andrews. “The safety turns in right there; you got to get your hand off the ball. He’s done. Look at that: He is done. That hand should already be off the ball.”An Alabama nurse, her football-loving dad and a plea to stay home on game day
The coach doesn’t lack for swagger. Spurrier was that way. So were Chip Kelly and Mumme. Like those coaches, Kelley is teaching new habits to a skeptical audience. He’s also trying to modernize a sport that resists change and acting like a pirate in an environment in which the coaches usually play nice and fall into line because that’s the easiest way to get the high-dollar games that pay for better facilities and ride planes to road games instead of buses.
Though Minter’s defensive coordinator has a complex plan to slow Presbyterian, Minter doesn’t think it feels right.
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