On today’s podcast, Host Keith Grabowski is joined by Keith Riggs, Head Football Coach at Jenks High School in Oklahoma. Jenks is one of the most storied high school programs in the country and Riggs had the impossible job of replacing Allan Trimble, a High School coaching legend. Riggs is now fresh off a state title and talks to Grabowski about what difficulties he faced this year and about what it was like to replace a great coach.

Show Notes:

2:38 Coach’s journey

4:49 Riggs approach to following up a legendary coach

6:30 The culture at Jenks

8:44 Riggs approach to the year 2020 and all it’s obstacles

11:27 Advice for Coach’s as they kick off their offseason under covid

13:15 Focus on what you can control

15:40 New things they tried during the pandemic that they will take with them after

18:42 How the circumstances of this year played into a full team effort on gameday

20:40 Dealing with players who were quarantined

22:22 Importance of football to his community

23:50 Winning Edge

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