The Gwinnett Daily Post just posted an interview with former Furman player Bill Ballard. Bill is beginning his first year as head coach of the Peachtree Ridge football team. Ballard is the former coach at Tucker and now has the task of taking over at Peachtree Ridge the current AAAAA state champs of Georgia.
A couple of quotes from the Corey Clark interview of Bill Ballard:
CC: Not many guys get to take over a program that just won the AAAAA state title - that's a pretty good situation you got yourself into, huh?
BB: (Laughs) I guess so. I am real excited about taking over the program. It's got a great deal of potential long-term. It's a great school, academically it's one of the top in the state ... it's just a great situation that offers almost everything you want. For me, with the family I have (children are ages 8, 5 and 2) this is the kind of place I would like to bring them up in and have them go to school. For my family and me it's just a wonderful situation.
CC: When you were playing (at Henderson High and then at Furman) were you a coachable kid?
BB: (Laughs) Definitely. I was very coachable. I wasn't good enough not to be coachable. I had to learn everything I possibly could so I could play. I was an average player so I had to be a student of the game. I was definitely not a prima donna.
