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Causey named ALFCA 5A Coach of the Year
Published Friday, January 29, 2010
Demopolis head coach Tom Causey and his staff left Thursday afternoon for the 5th Annual ALFCA Coaches Convention in Montgomery, where the organization will give the third-year DHS head coach its Class 5A Coach of the Year Award.
“It’s a tremendous honor,” Causey said. “I won it because we have great players. Without great players and great assistant coaches, that never happens.”
Saturday will mark the second time Causey has taken home Alabama Football Coaches Association hardware. In 2006 while at Andalusia, Causey won the organization’s Class 4A Coach of the Year Award.
“I don’t keep up with who all has won it,” Causey said of the award. “So I don’t know if anybody has done it twice.”
Causey’s second time taking the honor comes on the heels of Demopolis’ Class 5A state title win over Russellville that punctuated the team’s 12-3 season.
“We’ve all got to be on the same page, going in the same direction with the same goal,” Causey said. “There’s no way to be on a different page.”
Causey, who has won two ALFCA awards despite not toting an Alabama Sports Writers Association distinction, said the honor means a great deal because it is bestowed upon him by his peers.
“No disrespect to the sports writers, but the sports writers don’t see everything you go through in the course of a season,” Causey said. “I’ve been fortunate enough to win some other publications’ Coach of the Year awards, but it is something special to have one that is voted on by my peers and people who are way more accomplished in their careers than I will ever be.”
The awards banquet will mark the end of a three-day clinic in which Alabama high school coaches will be able to hear presentations by some of the biggest names in football, including Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Clemson top man Dabo Swinney and Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn.
“A lot of those big time college coaches, they really don’t talk a lot about Xs and Os simply because they are there to promote their program,” Causey said. “But as far as gathering information, the high school coaches do a really good job. They’re more apt to share the finer points of what they’re doing.”
Causey was accompanied on the trip by assistant coaches Joey Browder, Kyle Williams, Ben Ramer, Rudy Griffin and Leroy Harris. Causey is 29-10 over three seasons at Demopolis.
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Posted by sportsshooter (anonymous) on February 1, 2010 at 10:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations, Coach Causey! Gunnut, where, oh where are you? 5A Championship, Coach of the Year . . . talk about silencing the critics.
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