Schutt - National High School Coach of the Year

Coaching Smart A Florida football legend, George Smith, is the Schutt Sports National High School Coach of the Year George Smith’s coaching career could have ended before it ever really got started. As a 27-year-old first-year head coach, Smith was getting his staff together after his first full season, a 6-4 campaign in 1975. “I was going around asking my staff in a post-season meeting who was going to come back for next year,” Smith recalls. “They all looked at me and said ‘we’re not coming back because you did everything. You didn’t need us.’” Within five minutes, Smith learned his first valuable coaching lesson – trust your coaches and learn how to delegate. Today, 33 years, 333 wins and five state championships later, Smith is at the pinnacle of his profession and is one of the winningest high school football coaches in the country. His St. Thomas Aquinas (FL)