Good Sports: Hanford HS football coach gets glimpse of NFL coaching world

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Hanford High Football Head Coach Cannon Sanchez is backmost successful the Valley with a caller Tampa Bay tan and an immeasurable magnitude of shot knowledge.

Sanchez spent a week astatine the Buccaneers National Coaching Academy, a afloat immersion into beingness arsenic an NFL coach.

"Just being with those guys each azygous day, conscionable however they run and the attraction to item that goes into each practice, each idiosyncratic meeting, each squad gathering was conscionable genuinely similar 2nd to none," helium said.

Sanchez had a beforehand enactment spot to off-season workouts, rookie minicamp and presumption radical meetings, moving the closest with the backmost room.

"I was up successful the premix during each that stuff," Sanchez said. "Baker Mayfield is arsenic advertised. He's a caller dada and was not a big-time benignant of guy. Shakes my manus and introduced himself. He wanted maine to commencement each gathering with a dada gag truthful helium could larn immoderate caller dada jokes."

"Did you springiness him a bully dada joke," I asked.

"You cognize what, I deliberation I folded nether pressure," Sanchez said. "I don't deliberation I had a bully one."

Luckily, dada jokes weren't portion of the exertion process.

"They nonstop you a clip of a definite play, and past however are you going to interruption that play down," Sanchez said. "You spell backmost and distant with their unit and they find you that way."

Sanchez stood retired among thousands of applicants, selected arsenic 1 of 25 coaches from astir the world.

Now backmost successful Hanford, Sanchez is preparing for his 5th yearly younker campy astatine the extremity of the period and already has ideas connected however to instrumentality his session to the adjacent level.

"There are truthful galore behind-the-scenes things that you don't get to spot arsenic a instrumentality astatine that level that we're decidedly going to instrumentality back," helium said. "Whether that beryllium idiosyncratic drills that we truly liked oregon squad gathering things that they enactment together."

The Cannon Sanchez Youth Camp is taking spot May 30.

"That time is truthful peculiar due to the fact that shot has fixed truthful overmuch to me," Sanchez said. "It's truly chill to springiness backmost and person different guys springiness backmost arsenic well."

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