George Willix:  

After leaving Florida and moving to South Carolina, I had to make friends all over again. I did convince my parents to finally let me play football. So that worked out. But I got sick on Thanksgiving of my senior year and lost about 70 pounds, that along with letting a coach tell me maybe I wasn't cut out to play in college and believing him I gave up on my dream of playing.After High School I went to college for a semester, dropped out because I had no goal in mind and I wanted to get "paid", dumbest move I ever did.Because of all the moves I had made growing up, I found that I didn't keep a lot of close friends and that has always bothered me. Worked a lot of different "jobs" and finally settled on diesel mechanics for a while. But even took a break from that to drive over the road for a year. Went back to mechanics because I missed my boys and they missed me to much. Their momma got them watching football, I didn't watch after I stopped playing, and they got hooked on it and began playing at the boys club. That was right after my mother passed away from Cancer in 1999. The first loss of a relative I went through and she was my best friend. I wasn't going to coach but realized they needed help after two practices and eventually ended up coaching every year. Then I started a Pop Warner league with Natrone Means and have been coaching and ru...Expand for more