GHSF Daily asked Georgia head coaches to answer these four questions. We'll report from a different head coach each day.
Bruce Miller, Gainesville
1. Who is/was the most influential person in your coaching career? "I worked for a guy named Glenn Yancey in 1974 [at Sequoyah]. He gave me my first coaching job. He was so organized and on top of things. And even though I wasn't there, I watched Dave Hunter come in after me at Brookwood and what he did at that program. Those are two people. Another is Jimmy Satterfield, the head coach at Furman for a long time. I got to know him real well and worked his camps. He was just an offensive genius. I learned how to set up a game plan and how to executive it. He taught me to always have something in the game plan that the other team could not have planned for. What I'm doing now on offense I have learned from Tony Franklin, who the system came from."
2. Who is the best Georgia player you ever faced? "Sam Olajubutu for LaGrange in 2001, the one that went to Arkansas. We couldn't block him. I think he made very tackle. I'd look up and he was sacking our quarterback. We'd run the ball in the line of scrimmage and he'd make the tackle. He'd blitz and run by everybody we had trying to block him."
3. What is the best team you ever faced as a coach? "LaGrange in 2001 when I was at North Forsyth. We played them in the semifinals at the Dome. I've never seen a team as complete as they were. They had six or seven that were going D-I on that team."
4. If you were Gary Phillips, the new head of the GHSA, what would be the first rule that you would try to change? "I would like to see a 25-second clock on the field because you just don't know. You're going on when the referee puts the ball in play. I know it would be expensive to implement and it might cost $5,000 or $10,000, and I don't know if small schools could afford that. But it would take so much guesswork out of what's going on."
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