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Thursday, November 19, 2009

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"The Cab" is back in Greensboro! Butch Calloway, the most beloved Patriot player of all time, is back as Greensboro's head coach.

He heads up one of two new coaching staffs who will be roaming NCFA sidelines in 2013; former Charlotte defensive coordinator Greg Brown leaves the league-runnersup Clippers to become head coach in Winston-Salem.

Calloway was known as a smart, disciplined running back in his playing days. The question now is how those qualities translate into coaching the disappointing Patriots, who lost their last two games to finish 3-9 in 2012.
A couple of interesting choices as assistant coaches will aid the Greensboro rebuilding effort.

Romeo Caldwell, who led Rocky Mount to a playoff birth in his first season as head coach there but then failed to advance the Leafs any further the next two seasons and was fired in 2010, takes over as defensive coordinator. Caldwell was already a semi-pro football legend when the NCFA formed in 2000. He played defensive end for the first two Burlington Bees championship teams, retired after the 2001 season and, in 2006, became part of the NCFA's first class of Hall of Fame inductees.

Greensboro's new offensive coordinator is Wortham Wainright, who just retired after 11 seasons as a wide receiver. Wainright began and finished his playing career with Winston-Salem, but some of his greatest seasons were in Wilson where he was on the receiving end of passes from Derrick Smith (see highlight below). With the Patriots, Wainright reunites with his former Tobs quarterback, who has struggled since being traded to Greensboro in 2011.

In Winston-Salem, meanwhile, the new top Twin is Brown, who shone as coordinator of the Clippers' tough defense since 2010. A former all-star defensive back and wide receiver with Gastonia and Salisbury, Brown jumped into the NCFA's coaches-training program upon his retirement in 2009--serving that year as a head coach in NCFA2 and as a tutor of wide receivers at the league's free-agent training camp.

Brown's assistant coaches will be a couple of his former Popes teammates. Ed Gilbert, who played in the Salisbury backfield with Brown and later coached the Popes' defense, is Winston-Salem's new defensive coordinator. Larry Peete, an all-star guard and director of the league's free-agent training camp in both 2007 and 2009, is the Twins' new offensive coordinator. Brown, Gilbert and Peete take over a Winston-Salem team that lost its last six games and finished 2-10 in 2012.

In other coaching news, a couple of former all-star Burlington linebackers, Charles Szott and just-retired Ernie Girt, have resurfaced as new NCFA defensive coordinators for 2013, with Charlotte and Durham, respectively.


posted by Matthew Vaughn  # 9:11 AM

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