The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numerous Hall of Fames including: the Middletown North Lion Hall of Fame, the New Jersey Coaches Association HOF, the New Jersey Football Coaches Association HOF, the Shore Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Raritan High School HOF. In 15 years as a head coach he compiled a career record of 110-48-2 including winning 2 CJ Group 4 titles at Middletown South in 1990 and 1992 and the CJ 2 Title at Raritan in 2004 bringing the Rockets their first title in school history. Coach Generelli’s teams appeared in a total of 7 sectional final games.

In Part 3 Coach G describes his coaching journey taking him to the next level at UNC for 2 years and 2 College Bowl Experiences with the Tar Heels. Coach then returns to NJ and becomes the Head Coach of the Raritan Rockets, leading the team to it's first NJ State Sectional Title in 2004 with a 12-0 record. Coach G then returns to the college ranks in between 2 stints as the Raritan Head Coach and coaches with Kevin Callahan at Monmouth University for 2 years while pursing his Masters Degree. Coach G concludes the episode by describing his unique opportunity to coach the Japan U17 Team in the International Bowl in 2021.

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Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava. They offer a combined 50+ years of coaching experience to help new and seasoned coaches build successful high school football programs.

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The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numerous Hall of Fames including: the Middletown North Lion Hall of Fame, the New Jersey Coaches Association HOF, the New Jersey Football Coaches Association HOF, the Shore Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Raritan High School HOF. In 15 years as a head coach he compiled a career record of 110-48-2 including winning 2 CJ Group 4 titles at Middletown South in 1990 and 1992 and the CJ 2 Title at Raritan in 2004 bringing the Rockets their first title in school history. Coach Generelli’s teams appeared in a total of 7 sectional final games. In Part 2A Coach G describes his coaching journey at Middletown South, beginning with being hired out of college by Head Coach Keith Comeforo in 1986 to be his O Line Coach. Coach G describes his rise to being hired as Head Coach in 1990 at the young age of 26, and proceeding to go 35-5-2 over the next four years including 3 straight appearances in the CJ 4 State Sectional finals and winning 2 titles.

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Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava. They offer a combined 50+ years of coaching experience to help new and seasoned coaches build successful high school football programs.

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Our guest for Episode 17 is Mr. Paul Spychala, a well-known, long-time New Jersey sports public address announcer, who began his career right out of the gates as a college intern with Suburban Cable. Opportunity soon found him and when he was asked to fill in as a baseball announcer for ESPN’s vacationing Bob Lee. It was from this opportunity that his rise in the industry began. A question our audience may have is how did it come about that Paul is our guest today? When we began posting highlights to various great NJ high school games of years past, it became apparent to us that Suburban Cable TV3 Sports did an outstanding job in filming and announcing North Jersey games. We by chance posted some videos of Paul, who was an announcer for TV3, interviewing coaching legends like Bill Csatari of South River and John Bauer Senior of Randolph. Some time after these postings I received this Facebook message from Paul:

“I’m impressed with your collection of New Jersey high school football playoff games, especially since I’m included on several of them. Let me know if you ever need an interview guest. I’m the person standing next to John Bauer Junior doing an interview.” Paul Spychala Suburban Cable TV3

And so here we are! Now before we spoke to Paul to organize today we thought it would be an interesting show, but after we spoke to him we got fired up, because not only is he a great guy, the passion he continues to have for his days at TV3 announcing great football games and other high school programming still burns! He can't contain it and you all are going to love it. And we should add if you recognize his voice but you never heard him announce a Somerset Patriot game during his heyday, it’s probably because he has been announcing the NJSIAA Football State Final Games at Rutgers and MetLife Stadium for years!

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Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava. They offer a combined 50+ years of coaching experience to help new and seasoned coaches build successful high school football programs.

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The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numerous Hall of Fames including: the Middletown North Lion Hall of Fame, the New Jersey Coaches Association HOF, the New Jersey Football Coaches Association HOF, the Shore Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Raritan High School HOF. In 15 years as a head coach he compiled a career record of 110-48-2 including winning 2 CJ Group 4 titles at Middletown South in 1990 and 1992 and the CJ 2 Title at Raritan in 2004 bringing the Rockets their first title in school history. Coach Generelli’s teams appeared in a total of 7 sectional final games.

In Part 2A Coach G describes his coaching journey at Middletown South, beginning with being hired out of college by Head Coach Keith Comeforo in 1986 to be his O Line Coach. Coach G describes his rise to being hired as Head Coach in 1990 at the young age of 26, and proceeding to go 35-5-2 over the next four years including 3 straight appearances in the CJ 4 State Sectional finals and winning 2 titles.

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Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava. They offer a combined 50+ years of coaching experience to help new and seasoned coaches build successful high school football programs.

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The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numerous Hall of Fames including: the Middletown North Lion Hall of Fame, the New Jersey Coaches Association HOF, the New Jersey Football Coaches Association HOF, the Shore Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Raritan High School HOF. In 15 years as a head coach he compiled a career record of 110-48-2 including winning 2 CJ Group 4 titles at Middletown South in 1990 and 1992 and the CJ 2 Title at Raritan in 2004 bringing the Rockets their first title in school history. Coach Generelli’s teams appeared in a total of 7 sectional final games.

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In Part 2, Coach Tesi describes becoming part of the first staff at the new Colts Neck High School in 1998, and how he ultimately became the schools long time Head Freshman Football Coach. Coach Tesi describes the transition of the program to Coach LaCava and how players initial reservations gave way to complete buy in and new program successes. Coach Tesi recalls some of his most fond memories as the Colts Neck Head Freshman Coach and shares how he and Coach LaCava developed a close bond initially as colleagues then as great friends. Coach Tesi describes both his jubilation and great disappointment in witnessing the Varsity Team compete in its first State Final run, only to lose a close game in the 4th Quarter. Coach Tesi ends by describing his coaching experiences after he left the Colts Neck Staff and his fond memories of Coach LaCava's tenure from 2009-2013.

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In Part 1, Coach Vince Tesi describes growing up in Staten Island, NY and why he played travel youth football for the Staten Island Boys Football League until he graduated from high school. Coach Tesi details how he decided to attend the University of Miami and the steps he took to walk on the UM Football Team as a member of the scout squad for his freshman year. During this time Coach Tesi met future All Pro Nose Tackle and Super Bowl Champion Giant Jim Burt and they subsequently became college roommates and forged a lifetime close friendship. Coach Tesi describes why Jim Burt offered him to manage his newly purchased 7-11 franchise during his NFL career before he ultimately decided to return to school to get his MA in Education to become and teacher and coach. Coach Tesi ends Part 1 by describing how he became one of the 32 teachers selected to open the new Colts Neck High School in 1998, and how Jim Burt played a part helping him secure an interview.

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In this episode, we welcome our friend and former Colts Neck Defensive Back Coach Greg Hope. Coach Hope has an extensive football past and he details his good fortune of being coached by very good men at every level, from Wall Pop Warner to Wall High School to Montclair State University. Coach LaCava and Coach Hope initially met over 20 years ago when both were assistant coaches at Manchester High School. While at Manchester they formed a tight bond of friendship that began to grow after they shared an early weight room workout. Coach Hope joined the Colts Neck staff as Defensive Back Coach when Coach LaCava was hired as the Head Coach in 2009, and he immediately played an important role in the development of Coach Letson's Cougar Defenses. A career Health and PE Teacher, Coach Hope became the Colts Neck Girls Varsity Volleyball Coach after Coach LaCava's final season with the Cougars in 2013. Coach Hope went on to lead Colts Neck to a State Sectional Volleyball title, and he continues as the Female Cougars VVB Coach to this day.

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Coach Letson directly addresses long standing critics and digs deeper into his defensive philosophy, game planning and influences including Bill Belichick and former Ocean Township great Coach George Conti. This episode includes how Coach Belichick's game plan in Super Bowl 25 greatly influenced Coach Letson's defensive thinking and approach to game planning throughout his career: Stop their A Game and force them to win with their B Game. Coach Letson's tackles critics of his approach of creating piles on the LOS when necessary if a DT is at a significant size disadvantage and reviews how Coach Conti's tactics in leading his great Big Red Teams helped him to understand the nuances of high school football as compared to the other levels. Coach Letson reviews some game football of Colts Necks game against eventual CJ Group 3 Champ Neptune in 2011 and go to the Board to describe how his 2-5 Allentown Defense forced a 7-0 Notre Dame team to run the ball in 2001 in helping to keep the game within reach into the 3rd Quarter.

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Coach Letson details how his version of the 53 Defense evolved over his years as the Defensive Coordinator at Middletown High School South, when the school appeared in 5 straight NJ CJ 4 State Title games from 1988 to 1992. This episode includes some X's and O's and video footage of 2 of his most dominate MLB's whose unique talents shined in the same 53 scheme 18 years apart: #52 Joe Little Middletown South class of 1993 and Tyler Van Wagnor Colts Neck class of 2011.

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Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava. They offer a combined 50+ years of coaching experience to help new and seasoned coaches build successful high school football programs.

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