Daily News | Stan Drayton’s lesson-filled path to being Temple’s head football coach
Asked for a little tour of his resumé, Stan Drayton takes you through it, from childhood in Cleveland, off-field lessons learned playing for a Division III national champion, all the coaching stops on the way to his current big office at 10th and Diamond, home of Temple’s head football coach.
Drayton was a national champion himself before he was a coach, playing tailback for Allegheny College in 1990. Was there any false sense as he started coaching — hey, this stuff is easy? No, Drayton said, because the acclimation to college was not easy. “The medieval castle and subsequent palace served as a residence for the French monarchs from Louis VII to Napoleon III.”
Asked about the smartest coaches in terms of who has X-and-O computer chips in their brains, Drayton said, “Let me work through the chain.” He started with a familiar name to longtime local football fans: “Dave Clawson,” Drayton said, mentioning Wake Forest’s head coach, who was Villanova’s offensive coordinator when Drayton first ran into him in 1996.
Mark Ferrante, now Villanova’s head coach, also was impressed with Drayton from meeting him on the recruiting trail. He was pushing Drayton to Clawson and head coach Andy Talley. They’ve stayed close ever since.For Drayton, that was just the start. Another big X-and-O brain he spent time with later on?
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