Randy Griffin knew he was at the right place when he returned to his home football field of Opp High School as the new head football coach in 1973.
“I got out of my car and it just brought tears to my eyes,” Griffin said. “I didn’t think that would happen. But man, I am coaching at the place that I played.
People are also reading… Griffin credits the many successful coaches he’s been around over the years – many of them hall of famers themselves – for influencing him to one day be a leader of athletes as well.“He was one who was instrumental in all that I did,” Griffin said. “My father passed away when I was 2 years old and my mother raised me.
“Enterprise was undefeated and we were undefeated,” Griffin said. “We went over there the week before when we had an open date. Enterprise ran about 80 people on the field and we had about 30 to 32 players. “They let me work with athletic training with the football team and filming,” Griffin said. “Then Hamp Cook called me and said he needed me to do some scouting for him, so I would do that and write that up and learned a little bit about scouting then.”
“But he told me he trained me and I was ready to go. So then the clock started and nobody sitting there beside me to kind of show me what to do, but it worked out great. We won that game and that year we lost one game.” Griffin would lead the Bobcats from 1973 through 1981, which included a 9-1 record during the 1978-79 season when he was once again named Coach of the Year.
After retirement, Griffin would remain very active in Opp athletics – serving as a play-by-play voice for football on WOPP radio, commentating on basketball games and continues to serve as host of “The Coaches Corner” show.
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