Blake Anderson, Arkansas State Head Football Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Episode 349
Blake Anderson was named Arkansas State's head football coach on Dec. 19, 2013.
Anderson has led A-State to five consecutive winning seasons, five straight bowl game appearances (2018 Arizona Bowl, 2017 Camellia Bowl, 2016 Cure Bowl, 2015 New Orleans Bowl and 2014 GoDaddy Bowl) and back-to-back Sun Belt Conference championships in 2015 and 2016 his initial five seasons at the helm.
Prior to his arrival at Arkansa State, Anderson spent the previous two seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Carolina, where he helped lead the Tar Heels to an Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division title in 2012 and the Belk Bowl in 2013. Under Anderson’s direction, North Carolina averaged 432.4 total yards per game in 2013 after setting the school record the previous year with 485.6 yards per contest. Prior to his arrival in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels had not averaged 400 yards in a season since 1993.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Blake about preparing for the 2019 season, what he's learned since becoming a head coach six years ago, where his faith began to take shape, coaching for a greater purpose and how his wife's battle with breast cancer has impacted his faith and finding joy in difficult circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
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| 0:45.6 | Today on the podcast, we welcome Blake Anderson, Arkansas State's head football coach. |
| 0:51.9 | Blake came to Arkansas State in 2014 in and every single season he's been there, |
| 0:58.0 | as the head coach, they have been to a bowl game. Five straight years playing in a bowl game. |
| 1:03.6 | Two Sunbelt Conference Championships in 15 and 16, and last year, 2018, they were the Sunbelt |
| 1:10.6 | West champions. |
| 1:12.6 | Blake Anderson, 39 and 25 overall record, believer in Christ, husband to Wendy, father to Colton, Callie, and Kaysen. |
| 1:21.6 | This was a lot of fun talking to this guy. |
| 1:23.6 | You can just sense he has that energy, that enthusiasm that you get when |
| 1:29.6 | he talked to coaches at a high level, especially in college football. But this also goes a little |
| 1:36.3 | deeper because Blake, and if you've been following him on Twitter at CHB Anderson, you'll see that |
| 1:43.0 | he's been providing updates on his wife. And his wife, Wendy, |
| 1:48.4 | is battling cancer, breast cancer, stage four. And so we talked to him about just walking |
| 1:55.2 | through the process of being a husband who is obviously supportive of his wife, but keeping that faith component central |
| 2:03.7 | as his wife battles cancer and as he tries to navigate also being a head football coach |
| 2:10.0 | at the same time. Also his testimony, Blake's testimony was a powerful one in coming back to the Lord and understanding that football |
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