Ames High hires new Football Coach
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I tried to click that link way too many times before realizing it was a picture and not an embedded tweet.
How else am I supposed to catch up on the drama from girls I knew in high school with 3 or 4 baby daddies while I'm pinching one off at work?
Pretty sure this is the son of one of my father's best friends. Just checked and it is. His father Jack is great, one of my favorite coaches that I ever had growing up.
When I played (Class of 99), "Vert" was the DC/DL coach. I played center so didn't interact with him often, but he always seemed like an enthusiastic, engaging coach.
Thought he underachieved when he didn’t have elite skill players at that level. For whatever reason it seemed like the beef on the lines disappeared in Ames in the early 2000s. Gleaned more from assistants and position coaches in my time there. Still had a good run.
Ames definitely took a step back from its glory days, but that had more to do with the changing demographics of the town and a lot of university employees (and therefore their kids) choosing not to live in Ames itself.
Bruce was a definite improvement from Jimmy Burrow, who was pretty inept as a Head Coach. I have no idea how that guy was a successful assistant at the college level when he was a terrible head coach at the high school level. Both of them couldn’t hold a candle to Kirk Daddow. I was at Ames from 99-03 and really was disappointed when he retired from coaching the year before I started playing.