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When the restaurant Tracy Claeys owned in his hometown ran into snags, manager Teresa Claeys telephoned her older brother.
If Coach's Grill and Pub in Clay Center, Kan., had a problem with an employee or a dissatisfied customer, Tracy Claeys, the Gophers' new head football coach, would give advice to his sister, the same wisdom he has imparted on young men as a football coach since 1994.
"I learned a lot about shrugging things off that you can't control, paying attention to things that you can control and how to always find the positives," Teresa Claeys said Wednesday. "He's been a great mentor to me as well."
During his introductory news conference Wednesday after receiving a three-year, $4.5 million contract, Tracy Claeys recalled his humble beginnings in the rural Kansas farming town.
Being the first from his family to earn a college diploma, Claeys graduated with a degree in education from Kansas State in 1994 and began teaching math and coaching football at Santa Fe Trail High School in Carbondale, Kan. He left after a year to join Jerry Kill at Saginaw Valley State, a Division II school in Michigan.
He forfeited a full-time teacher's salary for $3,000 a year to coach the defensive line with Kill, the man Claeys succeeded.
http://www.twincities.com/gophers/ci_29105588/gophers-football-tracy-claeys-stays-true-small-town
Go Gophers!!
When the restaurant Tracy Claeys owned in his hometown ran into snags, manager Teresa Claeys telephoned her older brother.
If Coach's Grill and Pub in Clay Center, Kan., had a problem with an employee or a dissatisfied customer, Tracy Claeys, the Gophers' new head football coach, would give advice to his sister, the same wisdom he has imparted on young men as a football coach since 1994.
"I learned a lot about shrugging things off that you can't control, paying attention to things that you can control and how to always find the positives," Teresa Claeys said Wednesday. "He's been a great mentor to me as well."
During his introductory news conference Wednesday after receiving a three-year, $4.5 million contract, Tracy Claeys recalled his humble beginnings in the rural Kansas farming town.
Being the first from his family to earn a college diploma, Claeys graduated with a degree in education from Kansas State in 1994 and began teaching math and coaching football at Santa Fe Trail High School in Carbondale, Kan. He left after a year to join Jerry Kill at Saginaw Valley State, a Division II school in Michigan.
He forfeited a full-time teacher's salary for $3,000 a year to coach the defensive line with Kill, the man Claeys succeeded.
http://www.twincities.com/gophers/ci_29105588/gophers-football-tracy-claeys-stays-true-small-town
Go Gophers!!