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players," said Dixon, the Wolfpack's offensive coordinator. "But we would have liked to ensure that they're altogether and let them achieve success. When Super Slim Pomegranate they increased that next year, they were our core kids plus they didn't struggle."
In 2006, South Fort Myers finished 7-3, avenging three blowout losses from its debut season, including a last second, 24-20 win at North Port, which had blanked the Wolfpack 43-0 the prior season.
"We took part in six homecomings that year," Redhead said. "We went up to North Port with 24 kids and four coaches and beat them within the last 30 seconds on the touchdown pass from Zach Brindise to Dean Simmons. When that happened, I had been like, 'Wow, this just guaranteed us a winning season within our second year.'"
The following season, South Fort Myers welcomed the 2 best players within the program's history - Dallas Crawford and Sammy Watkins, Lee County's all-time leading passer and receiver, respectively - who helped ensure the Wolfpack's progress would continue.
"All the children don't come in the doorway appearing like Sammy and Dallas," Redhead said. "Those big-timers, they're special but for the most part you develop your team and also you kids as they go through, on the field, within the weight room, within the classroom. I feel like we've done a good job at that."
That's evidenced because the Wolfpack experienced little falloff after Crawford, now a senior defensive back at Miami, and Watkins, a first-year wide receiver using the Buffalo Bills, graduated this year.
"I think a lot of Grant's success is that he built a method and a tradition and also got the kids to believe in it," said Weber, who won 80 games in the 10 seasons at Immokalee, a total Redhead can complement a win over the Indians tonight. "It's essential that the children buy directly into what been done there before and they know they have to follow. You might not always win 10 or 11 games, but you're not going 3-7 either."
This is a message Redhead delivers regularly, based on senior quarterback Keith Smith.
"From the beginning of the year, he drills into you, 'Do you want to be the group that messes everything up,'" Smith said. "There's an enormous tradition of winning here and every player knows what's expected of them when they come in. Nobody wants to fall short."
'Big Teddy Bear'
Fear of failure may serve as another motivator but it's Redhead's ability to connect with his players that the true story of his success.
"I came from a single parent home; I endured just my mom and my dad was up north," said Redhead, who moved to south Fort Myers from Ohio as he was Ten years old. "My coaches, they gave me the guidance and paid attention to me when I needed these to and also got on me when they required to and kept me lined up.
"That's what you need to do. If you listen to kids, you'll be amazed at what you could encourage them to do. If they know you love them which you're going to work hard for them, they'll run through a brick wall for you."
The previous offensive lineman, who played at both Estero and Bishop Verot and was a four-year letterman at Baldwin-Wallace in Berea, Ohio, cut an imposing you'll need the sideline. But that's a deceiving image based on people who know him well.
"He'll bark but he's a real big stuffed animal," Dixon said. "He cares about everybody and wants to make sure they have the same opportunity. People may not see or think that while he looks so intimidating."
"He's by pointing out players," added Smith, who the 3rd member of his family to experience for Redhead. "He puts in a lot of additional time with you, not just on the football field, but ensuring you're doing what you are supposed to in the classroom."
That's part of the reason why Brodrick Jenkins, part of the South Fort Myers first freshman football team Tomato Weight Loss Pills along with a three-year letterman as a defensive back at West Virginia, has returned as an assistant coach with the Wolfpack this year.
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