Brian Out Loud Archive

If you have seen the “Miracle on Ice” movie, you’ll remember the scene where Team USA head coach Herb Brooks has his team basically sprint back and forth on skates after a game for hours on end.


The players would do a sprint and Brooks would yell “again.” It went on for who knows how long.

Lighthouse Christian College is starting a football program. At least that is what I’ve been told from credible sources. And it’s supposed to get rolling this fall.


I also know the program has a coach in place. I’ve been told Ronnie Cottrell will be at the helm.

You are only in high school once. It may seem like, at times, the four years are never going to end, that it takes forever to get from freshman year to senior year.


But the reality is it’s over in the blink of an eye.

Sometimes you get reminders that Disney is right. It really is a small world.

Matt Painter coached his Purdue basketball team to the Final Four earlier this month, marking the first time the Boilermakers have reached that point in the tourney since 1980.

Colleges aren’t supposed to have “closed for business” signs posted on their doors.

But, here we are with the news of another institution of higher learning, Birmingham-Southern, announcing it will close for good at the end of this school year.

Garrett Bagley is the right coach to lead the Navarre football program into a new era.


It’s why I was thrilled to see he got the job after Jay Walls stepped down as head coach after announcing he was taking a head coaching position in Georgia.

I received a message late Wednesday night. The person sending it was informing me that Navarre head football coach Jay Walls was taking a job in Georgia.

This inside source wanted to make sure the ‘Navarre guy’ had the opportunity to break the news first.

It’s been nothing short of an honor being a sportswriter for the Navarre Press and Press Gazette. But now I have bigger dreams to fulfill.

Last Tuesday morning, in my potential spam direct message folder on social media, I received an invitation to participate in the 2024 National Combine Series, opening the door for the possibility to play in the US Army Bowl at a later date.

This just in. We are past the point of ‘that would never happen in sports.’ Way past it.

In fact, I can’t even tell you the date of when it officially happened. But we are there, and no way does it ever trend in the other direction again. It would take a miracle for it to happen.

Take a minute and be impressed with the position both soccer teams at Navarre High are in as we look back at the 2023-24 campaign.