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Inheriting a coach who has been around the game 39 years can elicit many reactions among teenagers.
On the plus side: knowledge, a level-headed approach, experience.
On the downside: unbending, stubborn, old-school.
The first time Acalanes-Lafayette quarterback Robby Rowell heard that then-69-year-old Floyd Burnsed was coming out of retirement to coach the Dons, he went somewhere completely different.
“I thought we got a steal of a hire,” he said. “From everything I heard, coach Burnsed was a legend around Lamorinda.
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On the plus side: knowledge, a level-headed approach, experience.
On the downside: unbending, stubborn, old-school.
The first time Acalanes-Lafayette quarterback Robby Rowell heard that then-69-year-old Floyd Burnsed was coming out of retirement to coach the Dons, he went somewhere completely different.
“I thought we got a steal of a hire,” he said. “From everything I heard, coach Burnsed was a legend around Lamorinda.
More...