John Small - East Coweta High School football coach on football as a teacher of life and being a glory reflector
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
John Small is a high school football coach for East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Georgia. His father, John Small was the Atlanta Falcons number one draft pick (12th overall) in the 1970 NFL Draft and played five seasons with the Falcons and Lions. His son began coaching in 1997 at the University of West Georgia but transitioned to high school in 1998 and has been coaching high school football since.
From 2005-2017, Small was the head coach at South Gwinnett High School before transitioning to East Coweta in 2018. Over his 19 seasons as a head coach, Small has had multiple playoff appearances.
Today on the podcast, we talk to coach John Small about the lessons he learned from his NFL playing dad, what it means to be a kingdom coach, why football is a cheat sheet for life and his desire to be a glory reflector.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I'm excited today to bring to you probably someone you haven't heard of. |
| 0:06.3 | His name is John Small. He is the head football coach for East Coweta High School down in Georgia in the Atlanta area. |
| 0:14.3 | And by the way, Coweta, great name for a high school. But I was introduced to John by a mutual friend of ours, who's a baseball scout named |
| 0:22.3 | Kevin Burrell. And as I was debating, is John, you know, a lot of times we have big names on our show. |
| 0:28.3 | Should we have John Small on? Well, the answer is yes. We should. And I want to feature more of |
| 0:33.8 | the smaller, unknown type of people who are doing great things for the Lord in the |
| 0:40.6 | different spheres of influence. I mean, we've had on small school coaches, small school |
| 0:45.3 | athletes in college, high school coaches. We've had on guys who are backups and backups of backups |
| 0:51.5 | in the professional level. I love the big names. |
| 0:55.0 | Trust me, I do. |
| 0:56.4 | But I also love guys like John Small. |
| 0:58.9 | And his last name is not an indicator of who this guy is. |
| 1:02.3 | He's not doing small things. |
| 1:03.3 | He's doing big things impacting the lives of these football players |
| 1:07.1 | that he coaches in high school. |
| 1:09.2 | And what a great place to influence, you know, people and |
| 1:13.5 | show them how God loves them and cares for them. But at the high school level. And by the way, |
| 1:19.6 | one of the great competitors you'll ever meet is John Small. His dad actually played |
| 1:23.6 | professionally in the NFL. In 1970, he was a number one draft pick to the Atlanta |
| 1:29.6 | Falcons, the 12th overall pick. That was the year I believe Terry Bradshaw was the first overall |
| 1:35.3 | pick in the NFL. So that gives you an idea of the era that John Small's dad, John Small, |
| 1:41.7 | same name, played in the NFL. He played for five seasons with the Falcons and the Lions. |
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