[charlie22]

Our head coach was Hermann and unfortunately Eicher my SR year. Alot of fighting among the coaches my SR year (vividly remember a screaming match in locker room right before going out on the field for a game). The assistant coaches would even ridicule Eicher when we seperated into group practices. What was Walz like as a head coach, he was an assistant for us. Some of the funniest memories I have, have to do with coach Walz. Some guys did not care for him, but I always liked the guy.
I was away for college for the Duffy era, but from the stories I have heard, their was not alot of love for the guy.

Roger was a really good head coach; a smart coach. Some would say a smart a** because he would clown around a lot! But he's a good guy. Still see him around town a lot. He coached the O and Berta coached the D. Berta was an outstanding coach. My senior year, Murph was the head coach at Newport. We had switched defenses from Murph's split 6 to the 5-4 under Berta. Murph commented to some that he was going to be able to run the buck and guts all night long against us because we ran the 5-4. That didn't work out too well for Murph. :thatsfunn

Duffy in my opinion is still the best on field High school football coach I've ever seen (although Dale is pretty darn close. I'd give the edge to Dale in preparation for a game and a slight, slight edge to Duffy in on the field coaching). Duffy's problem was that he didn't want to deal with a lot of players on the team. He didn't cut any one, but he made the practices and conditioning sessions so tough a lot of kids quit. Not a good PR move in a football town like FT. He also didn't care much for the other sports, although he was the AD also. While Duffy won a couple of championships, it just was not a good fit. The players that stuck it out with him, loved him. But that was a very small percentage of people in FT. Best for all when he moved on and Dale came in.