wobycat wrote:Brent Daniels cut his teeth at Burg and has tailored his program pretty much the same as Burg, all the way down to their pee wee program. As long as he is there, the Falcons will be hard to beat for years to come. He will have them in the playoffs every year and will have them competing for the SOC.
Good Luck Falcons
Go Burg!!!!
That's wrong in part. Daniels has been coaching since the Bailey brothers were at Minford 1992-1995. He left when Mark Fenick came in and went to Piketon for a year and then Larry Hall contacted him for a coaching job in W'burg. He came back to Minford when Brisker took over the Minford program and has been there ever since.
The weight and speed off-season program came from Coach John Berry and the time he spent at coaching at Columbus Bishop Hartley. Brisker hired John Berry and also hired some of the Marshall University S & D staff to come to Minford for a month and teach his coaches the newest and proper techniques in weight and speed training for football.
Minford did have a 4 team pee-wee program back in the 70s and early 80s and changed to a travel team. I will say the results from other programs that stuck to a 4 team inter-squad format, such as Burg, were much more successful in getting kids to stay within the program, thus they were having more successful at the varsity level. That's partly why the decision was made to change it back. Really, it wasn't that easy getting it changed, there were many meetings filled with arguments and many hurt feelings. In the end the proof is that Minford has made it to the playoffs with 8-2 records 4 consecutive years, with 1 outright SOCII Championship, so I think that is something everyone in the community can be proud of. The 2007 team was the first team to come from the new pee-wee program and Minford has had winning records ever since, so that decision was made long before Daniels took over.
