Autumn in the US means football season, and our guest today is one of the greatest teachers and coaches in the history of Jesuit high school football.
Chuck Kyle was the head football coach at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1983 until his retirement in 2022. His teams racked up 353 wins and an Ohio-record 11 Division I state championships. More than a dozen of his players reached the NFL, including longtime quarterback Brian Hoyer and current Patriots starting linebacker Dre’Mont Jones. And earlier this year, Amazon Prime Video released a documentary on Coach Kyle called “The Object of the Game,” which features interviews with football luminaries such as Bill Belichick and Mike Tomlin.
During our recent interview, host Mike Jordan Laskey asked Coach Kyle about his coaching philosophy and what made him so successful. Coach Kyle embodies the idea that football can be a powerful venue for teaching virtues like teamwork and perseverance that apply to life both on and off the field. And as Kyle also served as an English teacher throughout his coaching career, they discussed his favorites books to read and teach. It was such a fun conversation that revealed Coach Kyle’s passion for teaching and how he cared for his players using some of that good old-fashioned Jesuit cura personalis.
“The Object of the Game” documentary: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.07310b0e-9ed5-463e-8f37-ac1a375c6343?ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb
More about Coach Chuck Kyle: https://www.clevelandsportshall.com/kyle-chuck/
AMDG is a production of the Jesuit Media Lab, which is a project of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.
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