That’s what was happening out there too. “Kids knew a little bit about what was going on when they got here. Football Head Coach Bryant HS (AR) ... Bryant HS (AR) Categories covered by Buck. It was old school. “It ain’t about how much you know. You compete against a guy. He’s the biggest, strongest golfer. James explained, “When I went to high school, the weight room was not a priority. They get out and talk to the kids and hang out with the kids and know how to put the whistle down. “I thought I was strong,” he recalled recently. “Jerry ‘Buck’ James is a visionary with a heart for kids. We’ve got a formula on how many guys are 1,000-pound lifters or 1,500-pound lifters when you combine their weight totals up and I can tell you before the season starts, most of the time, if you’ve got a chance to be good or not. These kids have accountability. Little Rock, Arkansas Area. It was blind faith, but when you trust in faith, good things happen.”. “Going to one terminology through the district was a big plus for us,” he related. They’ve done a great job since we left. Bryant led Centre to the NCAA Division III playoffs on nine occasions and twice guided the team to the Division III Final Four in 1978-79 and 1988-89. Now they've won two, winning their first last year. It’s more than just a game.”, Winning is also a goal, and James plans to, starting with the notorious Salt Bowl game. And I would’ve been more prepared for everything if I would’ve been better prepared in high school. “The most I ever had in off-season was like 24 kids. Despite the early-season success against the Purple Dogs, Bryant Head Coach Buck James is not expecting to battle the same team this time around. BRYANT, Ark. Pages in category “You’ve got to feed the beast. They try to do it the right way. “It’s just a mindset. Error, no group ID set! buck james the bike doc. “You know, Lou Holtz said one time, figures don’t lie, but liars figure. He wasn’t always easy, but he was fair.’ That’s what I want kids to remember. We had to learn how those guys operated. Calley resigned after a strong season in 2015. Rob Patrick has been involved in radio and newspaper since the early 1980’s. “That was the problem when we got (to Little Rock Christian). The big news Thursday night wasn’t that Bryant senior quarterback Austin Ledbetter won the Landers Award, given to the state’s top prep football player. Buck James. “It wasn’t all what we did, it’s what we showed them. I was playing in an era where you got ice chips and salt tablets. “Paul Calley, Steve Griffith, Lance Parker and John Wells then Brad Stroud — they were very honest with me,” said James, who noted that he and Calley talked for over three hours on a couple of occasions. “Every place has its quirks or its traditions or things that don’t work and things that work,” James said. I’m not saying I did all that. He would say he didn’t mean it that way but considering he turned around two down programs at Star City and Camden Fairview then took over an already consistently good Bryant program and took it to greater heights, he qualifies. They were willing to buy into it. That was unheard of there. “There were people that were training the kids for football that weren’t on the football staff. Just different kinds of people are motivated different kinds of ways. I’d been at schools that won 35, 36, 37, and I just thought, you know, we’re way off of where we need to be. “We put in the weight program there,” James related. “You look at Robert Hooks and what he did at Osceola. We played in the backyard. People Projects Discussions Surnames They’ve got to be guys who don’t sit in the office. Buck James- Bryant HC in The Zone 8-27-20 by 103.7 The Buzz published on 2020-08-27T17:01:09Z. That’s the key to having success is having people who are willing to do that.”. It’s the philosophy and mentality of the administrations and community people, thinking that they’ve got a better way of doing it. I’d been around the block a couple of times and I saw that they were genuine and true.”. And to come up here and work those many hours, a lot of guys don’t do that. “The thing we pride ourself on is not being one-dimensional. “But we had a chance. We rode them home. “What are you going to do if you’re out there on a hot sunny day in 7-on-7 and you’re playing North Little Rock and they’re just beating you into the ground, you’ve got to do one of two things because the referee’s not going to save you, because there are none. Our All-Access Passes are a must if you want to get the most out of this event. I mean, if you go out there and train yourself, you’re not going to be pushed. Going until you’re tired or going past when you’re tired or just until you don’t feel comfortable. So, if we couldn’t have been able to run the football, we would have gotten beat. He was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame at University of Monticello, named the 2010 Arkansas Coach of the Year by the Little Rock Touchdown Club and named Hooten’s Coach of the Year in 2012. James succeeds Paul Calley, who is now the head coach at Benton Harmony Grove. Coaching is James’s way to give back, he said. I wish I would’ve had somebody make me stronger. – The Bryant Hornets completed their three-peat on Saturday afternoon over the North Little Rock Charging Wildcats in the 7A state title game, becoming the first school to ever win three consecutive state championships in the 7A classification. “Hats off to everyone who supports and attends the game. “I applaud those guys. “He has a very high ceiling. There wasn’t the mental and physical development like there is now. For the last five years, that didn’t buy in and did everything they could to avoid the weight room and everything they could to avoid the training and all that stuff. “I told them, those who stay will be champions. If those numbers aren’t there, you’re not going to compete. James said he is impressed with how well the Bryant players have handled the transition. I learned the conditioning. “That’s happened to us against Fayetteville,” he continued. Stream Buck James- Bryant HC in The Zone 8-27-20 by 103.7 The Buzz from desktop or your mobile device 4A … Not many people would walk away from what I did – we won more games in the last nine years than everybody in the state except for three other schools. “That’s a lot of pressure. “And (at Bryant) we asked them to do their training together,” he said. That’s just the truth of it. 5A OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR COOPER WHITE, PULASKI ACADEMY Torie Blair, Texarkana Marterious Ross, Wynne. People Projects Discussions Surnames Bryant Football’s New Head Coach: Buck James, Boddidle’s The Barber/Bodiddle Wine & Spirits, Second Chance Youth Ranch/Family Church Bryant, Kidsource Therapy/Reach Behavioral Health. “We threw for 3,000 (yards) and we ran for 3,000,” he noted of the 2020 Hornets. 5A DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR FUTA SHINKAWA, PULASKI ACADEMY Corey Platt, Little Rock Christian Kam Robinson, White Hall. Our goals need to be better and we need to show them that what we’re doing is good, but we can do better. Now, our conference tries to keep up with us and North Little Rock. “I don’t know how many championships we can win but I can see that Bryant can be very successful for a long time unless we mess this up.”. “I think we had a buy-in from kids because, you can look at it, the number of kids in the last five years that we started that didn’t start in junior high,” James illustrated. I think that the lessons that you learn in football should be the same lessons that you learn in life as far as getting you to the point where you can be successful in life. “I didn’t know what was going on. And I had all of them in the weight room. And I think that’s really what we’ve done.”. The workload was probably more than they were used to, I don’t know because I wasn’t here. But the biggest thing is we got in the weight room. We were winning two of them on the last play of the game. We won 10 games a year for three years in a row, won two conference championships. “Now, if you don’t want to work and you’re small, that’s tough,” he said. “It’s a great school that has everything you need and all the resources, whether it’s arts or athletics. “That’s been normal everywhere I’ve been,” James said. NORTH LITTLE ROCK — Bryant High School head football coach Buck James received the Arkansas High School Coaches Association (AHSCA) Outstanding Coach Award. You’re going to have to fight yourself out of it. I mean, Bo Jackson was one of the greatest players ever and he was big and strong. Want to sponsor? “We weren’t one-dimensional. A A. KATVThumbnail. After a season-high 34 points against Buck, James went on to be a post-game presser in high spirits. “You always want to do that as a coach,” he said. But it was fun. Malachi Graham returned an interception 52 yards to end North Little Rock’s next possession, and Jamarien Bracey immediately scored on a 10-yard run with 2:03 left in the half. It started in 1981, when he helped now-defunct Jefferson Prep, in Pine Bluff, to the school’s first-ever state title. They will do whatever they’ve got to do for the team to be successful, whether it’s staying long hours, staying extra to put in the time in the weight room or whatever, the physical development. “When we went down to North Carolina for two or three years, we got to see what real dudes looked like and how they competed and how they carried themselves,” coach recalled. Even in the State championship game and, against Catholic, they dropped eight or nine guys (into coverage) and we had to be able to run the football. NORTH LITTLE ROCK — Bryant High School head football coach Buck James received the Arkansas High School Coaches Association (AHSCA) Outstanding Coach Award. I think that’s why you see numbers like they are because there is so much accountability. His presence will enable our football program to transcend as a whole.”, The Bryant Hornets haven’t had a new head football coach in 13 years. You look at football, the biggest, strongest guys are the best players. They were doing their training like what we did at Bryant, farming it out. But we started doing things like they did it. He accused the Lakers star of lying. I can’t be 100 percent. But I found out I wasn’t.”. But I mean I just asked them, and they were willing to do it. “I can sit here and name numerous guys,” the coach mentioned. Contact us to find out more. “Winning was just enough then. ©2021 Bryant Daily | Local Sports and more Bryant, Arkansas Designed by. He had retired from Camden Fairview before taking on the LRCA offensive line coach and athletic director positions for two years. I think I fixed some things that were hurting. You’ve got to compete against your teammates. Talks covered by this speaker. I think they wanted the program to succeed. They started doing it all in house and you look at the success they’ve had. San Francisco Bay Area. He’s won four State championships including three in a row now at Bryant and he’s closing in on 200 victories as a head coach. “I mean, they sit there until they’re pushed. “It helps you in a lot of ways, from self-esteem to being a better football player, baseball player or basketball player. It’s harder now than it was, for sure. I mean, I think our record against the West was just horrible and it was because they were physically ahead of us. A A. KATVThumbnail. When I went to college to play (at the University of Arkansas at Monticello), I thought the world was blue or green when I was on the football field because I was either looking at the sky or the ground. “I’ve got a wide array of coaches and I have since I’ve been here. Bryant finished the season 13-0 for its third-straight state title, marking the first three-peat in the state’s largest classification since Pine Bluff in 1993-1995. Nothing but great things comes from it – it builds community, football programs and brings a lot to light. Obviously, it takes talented players too, but they have to, in coach speak, “buy in,” meaning the players have to believe in what you’re asking them to do. In 1981, when the Jefferson Prep Patriots won the Class A State football championship with a 14-7 win over Lewisville, one of the biggest, strongest, toughest players on the team was a lineman named Buck James. “Then the Camden Fairview job came open and it was tough the first year,” James said. Our linemen developed in a nice way. Everything — I mean, he was dead on. All those are things you do in football and that’s what you’ve got to do in the weight room.”. Big, strong guys beat little weak guys. Kids haven’t changed. Mine’s been the weight room.”. My goal is for our kids to get the basics, be guided to the best of their abilities and have fun together.”, James and his family left Camden for his sixth-grade daughter’s academic needs. It’s about how much you can do. They would do that. The Bryant Hornets haven’t had a new head football coach in 13 years. For his last few years, Calley declared that for things to change the way they needed to at Bryant, he would have to leave. Originally from Pine Bluff where he played various sports growing up–including football of course–James comes to Bryant from Little Rock Christian Academy. But when asked how he felt about beating the man who beat him for last season’s MVP award, James was guarded: themiracletech.com, 13d | 37. If your numbers are not what they’re supposed to be, you’re not going to be successful. “It’s basically just when water boils," said Hornet head football coach, Buck James. Our first game is the Salt Bowl and there’s a lot of things to get ready for. Growing up in a single-parent home, James found comfort in his coaches. James led his team to a second undefeated season in a row and the Hornets’ third consecutive Class 7A State championship in the fall of 2020. “Usually, when I go somewhere, it’s such a change that we don’t ever really do good the first year. “That’s happened to us against North Little Rock. “The guys we have on our staff now are very unselfish men,” James declared. “And we had a lot of that too. There’s a trust, a commitment that’s required. We went 4-6. “You know winning has its problems just like losing does,” he related. Genealogy for James Bryant "Buck" Whaley (1874 - d.) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. But if you’re willing to do those things — look at our receivers; look at some of our d-backs. You dress beside a guy. You play beside a guy. Two-time defending state champ Bryant has won 24 in a row since losing Oct. 26, 2018 at North LR 34-28. We’ve got some mentality and some strength there. Stephen A. Smith told some of the best things about Lebron James in the episode of First Take yesterday. NBA. “He knew his stuff,” James said. Then the hours they spend during the season are unbelievable. Congrats to the 2020 Landers Award winner, Bryant High School QB Austin Ledbetter! And they didn’t get paid a dime for that all summer long. This Bulls-Lakers trade sends an intriguing sharpshooter to L.A. The films that I played on are probably dead and gone. “Sometimes they get jaded or shaded about the approach and we have to work through it. I’m not saying what I did was better. You live beside a guy. He took his ideas to his first head coaching job at Star City, which enjoyed unseen success, winning 36 games in four years. 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