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Sunday, June 15
Outlaws face setbacks after releasing coach....
Coach Mendoza was let go by the Outlaws after the 2008 season and has now been retained by the California Warriors of the WCFA for the upcoming 09 season as Offensive Coordinator. Outlaw ownership mistakenly heard he was looking to leave the team due to rumors but never bothered to ask him about it personally and thus made the decision they would not bring him back before he could quit. He did intend to return there, although he planned on focusing solely on the offensive side of the ball, if they made some necessary operations changes but now the point is mute since they already severed his position. This could become an opportunity to continue next season what he does best, field productive offensive teams!! Last year, although Outlaws ownership did not post the game stats, coach Mendoza's son kept his offensive stats himself and posted some good totals for the season. His offense averaged around 400 yards per game, the running game being the most consistent over the season. His offense also set team and league records for total points scored with 61 in a single game. The leading rusher was Mike Sotamayor with 193 carries and 4 TD's. The leading QB was Alex Amin, with 1188 yards and 10 TD's in his final season, also rookie Nestor Campos contributed honorably with 4 TD's and 366 yards more in relief of an injured Amin early in the season and even kicked extra points and field goals when called upon. The leading WR was Will Thompson with 49 catches for 628 yards and 10 TD's! Not bad for a 10 game season at this level! Coach Mendoza had received interest from two other teams since his firing and has decided to join the Warriors family in 2009! Outlaws, your loss is going to be their gain for sure but it would have been nice to finish what was started, now I guess its back to the drawing board for you now and see you on the field in 2009!
 | | Bill Walsh with Joe Montana, 1988 |  |
Monday, July 30
Great NFL Hall of Fame Coach, Bill Walsh Passed away from us today.....
July 30, 2007
AP - Jul 30, 3:22 pm EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75.
Walsh died at his Bay Area home early Monday following a long battle with leukemia, according to Stanford University, where he served as coach and athletic director.
Walsh didn't become an NFL head coach until 47, and he spent just 10 seasons on the San Francisco sideline. But he left an indelible mark on the United States' most popular sport, building the once-woebegone 49ers into the most successful team of the 1980s with his innovative offensive strategies and teaching techniques.
The soft-spoken native Californian also produced a legion of coaching disciples that's still growing today. Many of his former assistants went on to lead their own teams, handing down Walsh's methods and schemes to dozens more coaches in a tree with innumerable branches.
Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. He was named the NFL's coach of the year in 1981 and 1984.
Few men did more to shape the look of football into the 21st century. His cerebral nature and often-brilliant stratagems earned him the nickname "The Genius" well before his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
Walsh twice served as the 49ers' general manager, and George Seifert led San Francisco to two more Super Bowl titles after Walsh left the sideline. Walsh also coached Stanford during two terms over five seasons.
Even a short list of Walsh's adherents is stunning. Seifert, Mike Holmgren, Dennis Green, Sam Wyche, Ray Rhodes and Bruce Coslet all became NFL head coaches after serving on Walsh's San Francisco staffs, and Tony Dungy played for him. Most of his former assistants passed on Walsh's structures and strategies to a new generation of coaches, including Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Brian Billick, Andy Reid, Pete Carroll, Gary Kubiak, Steve Mariucci and Jeff Fisher.
Walsh created the Minority Coaching Fellowship program in 1987, helping minority coaches to get a foothold in a previously lily-white profession. Marvin Lewis and Tyrone Willingham are among the coaches who went through the program, later adopted as a league-wide initiative.
He also helped to establish the World League of American Football -- what was NFL Europe -- in 1994, taking the sport around the globe as a development ground for the NFL.
Walsh was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004 and underwent months of treatment and blood transfusions. He publicly disclosed his illness in November 2006, but appeared at a tribute for retired receiver Jerry Rice two weeks later.
While Walsh recuperated from a round of chemotherapy in late 2006, he received visits from former players and assistant coaches, as well as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Born William Ernest Walsh on Nov. 30, 1931 in Los Angeles, he was a self-described "average" end and a sometime boxer at San Jose State in 1952-53.
Walsh, whose family moved to the Bay Area when he was a teenager, married his college sweetheart, Geri Nardini, in 1954 and started his coaching career at Washington High School in Fremont, leading the football and swim teams.
He had stints as an assistant at California and Stanford before beginning his pro coaching career as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1966, forging a friendship with Al Davis that endured through decades of rivalry. Walsh joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968 to work for legendary coach Paul Brown, who gradually gave complete control of the Bengals' offense to his assistant.
Walsh built a scheme based on the teachings of Davis, Brown and Sid Gillman -- and Walsh's own innovations, which included everything from short dropbacks and novel receiving routes to constant repetition of every play in practice.
Though it originated in Cincinnati, it became known many years later as the West Coast offense -- a name Walsh never liked or repeated, but which eventually grew to encompass his offensive philosophy and the many tweaks added by Holmgren, Shanahan and other coaches.
Much of the NFL eventually ran a version of the West Coast in the 1990s, with its fundamental belief that the passing game can set up an effective running attack, rather than the opposite conventional wisdom.
Walsh also is widely credited with inventing or popularizing many of the modern basics of coaching, from the laminated sheets of plays held by coaches on almost every sideline, to the practice of scripting the first 15 offensive plays of a game.
After a bitter falling-out with Brown in 1976, Walsh left for stints with the San Diego Chargers and Stanford before the 49ers chose him to rebuild the franchise in 1979.
The long-suffering 49ers went 2-14 before Walsh's arrival. They repeated the record in his first season, with a dismal front-office structure and weak-willed ownership. Walsh doubted his abilities to turn around such a miserable situation -- but earlier in 1979, the 49ers drafted quarterback Joe Montana from Notre Dame.
Walsh turned over the starting job to Montana in 1980, when the 49ers improved to 6-10 -- and improbably, San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games.
Championships followed in the postseasons of 1984 and 1988 as Walsh built a consistent winner and became an icon with his inventive offense and thinking-man's approach to the game. He also showed considerable acumen in personnel, adding Ronnie Lott, Charles Haley, Roger Craig and Rice to his rosters after he was named the 49ers' general manager in 1982 and the president in 1985.
"Bill pushed us all to be perfect," Montana said years later. "That's all he could handle as a coach, and he taught all of us to be the same way."
Walsh left the 49ers with a profound case of burnout after his third Super Bowl victory in January 1989, though he later regretted not coaching longer.
He spent three years as a broadcaster with NBC before returning to Stanford for three seasons. He then took charge of the 49ers' front office in 1999, helping to rebuild the roster over three seasons.
But Walsh gradually cut ties with the 49ers after his hand-picked successor as GM, Terry Donahue, took over in 2001. Walsh was widely thought to be disappointed with John York, DeBartolo's brother-in-law who seized control of the team in 1998 and presided over the 49ers' regression to the bottom of the league.
But Walsh stayed active through his posts on various advisory boards, plus writing, lecturing and charity work. He also became more involved at San Jose State, directing a search committee to hire a new athletic director and football coach in 2004, and served in various leadership positions at Stanford.
Walsh wrote two books and taught classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
"I'm doing what I want to do," he told the AP in an interview in 2004. "I hope I never run out of things that interest me, and so far, that hasn't happened."
He is survived by his wife, Geri, and two children, Craig and Elizabeth.
Walsh's son, Steve, an ABC News reporter, died of leukemia at age 46 in 2002.
Saturday, April 1
"DOUG HOLLAND INDUCTED INTO MLFN SEMIPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME!"
Doug "the deuce" Holland, pictured here at the induction ceremony this past December, has been inducted into the MNFL Semipro football Hall of Fame. He traveled to Nevada to play in their All-Star game and was inducted the following day. Doug chose his former coach and good friend, Jim Clarke, also a former player and now Commissioner of the NCAFF, to present him into the hall. Doug's final career stats are too impressive to list here, but nonetheless, they are up there among the nation's best. He still holds the record for the longest Int return for TD in Northern California History at 107 yards while he played for Jim Clarke and the Mountain View Flyers. Doug is very deserving of this honor having played for 14 seasons at such a high level against some of the very best receivers in semipro football. Of course, he worked against some of the very best too while with the Flyers, 49ers, Jaguars & Raiders in practice each day such as James Smith, Sadeo Langfeldt, Raymond Price, Mickey Stewart, Pat Tennyson, Yama Kashifi and Anthony Griffin. Doug also played other positions when asked such as running back, defensive end, linebacker and wide receiver. He is the consummate team player and a fine example of sportsmanship on and off the field. You will be missed Doug on the field, but your contributions are now being recongnized by the sport's peers and hopefully some of your teammates over the years as well in coming seasons. Congratulations and hope to see you again soon! - Coach Tim.
 | | Doug receives his induction into MLFN HOF |
Friday, June 15
"The Fantastic Four"
I have had the distinct pleasure of coaching with some of the finest players, but these four, Yama Kashifi, Alex Amin, Anthony Griffin and MLFN Semipro Hall of Famer, Doug Holland. I had the rare honor of sharing over 30 victories with in 5 years along with 2 championships and they posted some of the league's top stats year to year and over their careers. I would not coach a team that did not have these four guys anchoring it. In 2005 with the Raiders, they were instrumental in keeping us competitive all season, Griff even playing on both sides of the ball at times when we needed a big play and Doug playing three different positions too! They are four of the very best ever to play semipro football in my opinion and I would stack them up against anybody(and that guy in civi's on the left is not too bad either-Lamont Cusseaux!). Guys, it was fun coaching you and watching you play the game with such intensity and courage. Take care....Coach Tim.
 | | Yama, Top Gun, Crimedog & Deuce 2005 |
Wednesday, June 23
SEMIPRO FOOTBALL IS BOOMING!!!!
INTEREST IN THE SEMI-PRO FOOTBALL LEVEL IS BOOMING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
While a few recent surveys, in the sporting goods market place, show
a declining number of athletes who participate in youth, high school
and college tackle football programs nationwide - the semi-pro
football market in the United States is booming.
According to the American Football Association the number of teams
playing organized semi-pro football in this country has risen nearly
37% in the past 5 years. The AFA is in its 25th year of operation as
the national association for semi-pro football teams and leagues
coast-to-coast and power rates on a weekly basis each of the teams
in the 60 different leagues that make up the AFA.
In 1999 when the AFA started its power rating database system, they
tracked 417 teams playing 1945 games, in 51 leagues. In 2003 the AFA
monitored and power rated a total of 3,352 games played by 657 teams
participating in 60 different leagues. There are currently over
50,000 active semi-pro football players, coaches, team (and league)
administrators, trainers, equipment managers, game officials, and
even cheerleaders - continuing their post college and high school
football careers on the semi-pro level of the sport.
In the past 5 years we have increased the number of teams we deal
with from 417 to our present count of 657, says the AFA president,
Ron Real from his Sarasota, Florida national office. Thats an
increase of nearly 37% in overall membership while only increasing
the number of leagues by nine (9). What that number indicates is
that our member leagues have done a great job of adding new teams to
their existing leagues, added Real.
At the conclusion of the 2003 semi-pro football season the AFA had
entered the scores of 13,113 games on a national level. Those game
scores and the point differentials between teams and leagues are all
sorted in the database and made ready for this years (2004) AFA
'power ratings.
Last December the AFA sponsored its 23rd annual Semi-Pro Football
Hall of Fame Induction Dinner. Over the past two decades the AFA/HOF
has enshrined 431 semi-pro football legends into its Hall of Fame.
The class of 2003 was inducted at a ceremony that was held at the
Radisson Lido Beach Resort Hotel in Sarasota, Florida. The Radisson,
which is located 'on the beach', became the site of the first ever
AFA Hall of Fame old timers game. Details and photos from the
historic old timers game can be found in the AFA/HOFs January
newsletter - (And The Legends Live On) or by visiting the national
associations website at
www.AmericanFootballAssn.com
Media - contact Dave Burch at AFA National Office
(877) 624-4485 or (941) 388-3510
(e-mail) amerfoot@aol.com (or) usafoot@aol.com
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Sunday, February 1
"Bill Walsh honored with Distinguished American award"
Former San Francisco 49ers head coach, consultant and NFL Hall of Famer Bill Walsh is the recipient of the Walter Camp Football Foundation's "Distinguished American" award.
The Walter Camp "Distinguished American" recipient is an individual who has utilized his or her talents to attain great success in business, private life or public service and who may have accomplished that which no other has done. He or she may have a record of dedication to mankind which should not pass unrecognized and whose life has been dedicated to the preservation of the American ideal.
The recipient need not have participated in football but must be one who understands its lesson of self-denial, cooperation and teamwork and who is a person of honesty, integrity and dedication. He or she must be a leader, an innovator, even a pioneer, who has reached a degree of excellence which distinguished him or her from contemporaries and who lives within the principles of Walter Camp.
Walsh, who was enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame in 1993, took over a losing franchise in 1979 and built it into one of the most successful NFL franchises in the history of the game. In 10 seasons under Walsh, the 49ers had a 102-63-1 record (.617 winning percentage), captured three Super Bowl titles (1981, 1984 and 1988), made seven NFC postseason appearances and claimed six NFC West division championships. Walsh was twice named NFL Coach of the Year (1981 and 1984) and was later named NFL Coach of the Decade for the 1980s.
Walsh also experienced success coaching on the collegiate level, serving two seasons as head coach at Stanford University (1977-78), where he directed the Cardinal to a 17-7 mark and two bowl wins. He returned to Stanford in 1992 and promptly led the Cardinal to a 10-3 record that concluded with a New Year's Day victory- the school's first in 21 years - over Penn State in the Blockbuster Bowl. He remained at Stanford through the 1994 season.
In addition to his coaching exploits, Walsh has also had a profound impact on the game of football in other ways. In 1994, he was instrumental in the establishment and management of the World League of American Football, now known as NFL Europe. In addition, Walsh created a Minority Coaching Fellowship program for the 49ers in the late 1980s. Some notable coaches to have passed through his program included Dennis Green, Tyrone Willingham and Marvin Lewis. It was later adopted by the NFL as a league-wide program.
In 1999, Walsh returned to the 49er organization as Vice-President/General Manager and served for two years before stepping down in 2001. However, his knowledge, experience and eye for talent are still being utilized as a consultant for the organization.
Walsh as well as all of the major award winners and members of the 2003 Walter Camp All-America squad, will be honored at the organization's 37th annual national awards banquet on Saturday, February 14 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
"I consider him my mentor and a great creative genius within the game of football as well as someone I will always work to emulate on and off the field as both a coach and a person who deeply loves the game and it's players." -Coach Tim Mendoza.
Tuesday, July 29
Inspiration from a Great Championship Coach....
Tuesday, January 7
A Great Offensive mind passes away....
Sunday, July 27
A SPECIAL NOTE TO THOSE WHO DON'T WIN IN THE END...
Friday, July 25
My Picks for tomorrow's championship games....
Saturday, July 19
So, you wanna compete for a "CHAMPIONSHIP"...?
Monday, July 7
ARTICLE 5b: QB Fundamentals, part 3 of 3...
Saturday, June 21
ARTICLE 5A: Picking a good or Great Quarterback!!
Monday, June 9
ARTICLE 4: QB Fundamentals, Part 2 of 3...
Monday, May 26
ARTICLE 3: QB Fundamentals...Part 1 of 3
Wednesday, May 7
ARTICLE 2: An Interview with a championship Quarterback;
Sunday, March 9
ARTICLE 1: The Offense wins up front....
Saturday, June 28
Special accolades for a special player....
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