A Good Day in Isolation

Monday, April 27, 2020

Day XII in the California Isolation Ward was actually eventful!

It started with a small Zoom meeting at 8:30 a.m. that I attended with Ben McEnroe, the Head Coach of the California Lutheran University Kingsmen in Thousand Oaks, Bart Iaccarino, the Head Coach of the L'Hospitalet Pioners in Barcelona  and the Pioners' Athletic Director Alberto who was in Santiago de Chili today working.

The purpose of this meeting was to build a bridge between the two programs that would allow for coaches exchanges, player exchanges and possible exhibition games either in Spain or California sometime in the future.

An interesting project to say the least.

Another FIDAF Madden Tournament

Skorpions game was on tap today

 FINAL SCORE

Varese Skorpions - 38

Cecina Trappers - 7

TOTAL DOMINATION after yesterday's come from behind, nail biting victory.

I was really looking forward to today's Coaches Exchanging Zoom meeting at 11:00 a.m.

We had a great turnout!

I was excited for a couple of reasons.

First, the topic was "Developing a Winning Special Teams Culture - Stanford Punt Return/Block Drills and Fundamentals."

I LOVE the Kicking Game!

The second reason was our guest speaker today.

Pete Alamar, Stanford University

Special Teams Coordinator

I've known Pete for a long time as I had coached him when he was our starting offensive guard at Thousand Oaks H.S. back in 1976 and 1977.

That was a long time ago.

After Pete graduated from California Lutheran University, he started chasing his nomadic dream and became a college football coach in 1983.

His coaching career has seen him make stops at:

Cal Poly, G.A. (1983)

Louisiana-Lafayette, G.A. (1994)

California Lutheran, OL Coach (1985-86)

Cal Poly, RB Coach (1987-88)

James Madison, TE Coach & Def. Asst. (1991-92)

Arizona, G.A. (1993)

Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico, HC (1994)

Arizona, TE, LB & Special Teams Coach (1995-1999)

Eastern Michigan, OC, TE & OL Coach (2000-02)

California, TE & Special Teams Coach (2003-09)

Fresno State, TE & Special Teams Coach (2010-11)

Stanford, Special Teams Coordinator (2012-present)

 Pete did a FANTASTIC, detailed

job today and we have already

asked him to come back and speak

to us again soon!

The internet had a few things of interest for me today . . .

A great aerial shot of

Milan's Duomo in these deserted

times in Lombardia

Opening up Georgia again at

this time makes perfect sense if you

do not believe in medicine/science

It should have said "2" tonight

I'm guessing it will be "SET" tomorrow night and that then it will be a big time "GO!" on Wednesday!

What will tomorrow bring?