Former USC WR Mike Williams’ Surprising Coaching Style

WILLIAMS.MIKEFormer USC wide receiver Mike Williams is the head coach at Van Nuys High School. Williams tells the Detroit Free-Press he is more like coaches he hated during his career.

“It’s weird, because the coaches I hated the most in my career, I’m more like them. I’m more like Mike Martz than I am Pete Carroll. Not schematically, but in terms of attention to detail — if you don’t do it right every time, it doesn’t matter. All the stuff I used to hate about Martz, that’s exactly how I am. And surprisingly enough, I hate throwing the ball. I will run the ball 50 times and throw it five as a coach.”

27 thoughts on “Former USC WR Mike Williams’ Surprising Coaching Style

  1. Mike Williams may have been one hell of a football player, but I would would worry about him as the head coach of a high school team. The guy lacks the maturity to be the head coach of a high school football team. Something tells me Williams career as a high head coach isn’t going to last that long.

    • Discipline and doing it right is 90% of the game. He might be a great coach yet if he is doing what he says.

      • High school football is different from the NFL, and big time college football. High school football is first about mentoring young men for the real world, and winning comes second. I have seen so many successful high school coaches lose their job, because they didnt have the Maturity to work with high school kids. Mike Williams, had plenty of enemies at USC, and it said a lot about him. I think Williams would be better suited for like a law enforcement career, or something else.

      • He ripped his teammates through the Trojan daily, when he was at USC. Many of his teammates were glad to see him go. Did you ever watch mike Williams, when he was at USC. He acted like a total jerk on the field, though he wasn’t alone. And what the hell was he thinking, declaring for the NFL draft after his 2nd year out of high school. The longstanding NFL rule is you have to wait 3 years after you graduate from high school to play in the NFL. What the hell was Williams thinking!

        • So we’re going to assume he’s the same exact person he was over 10 years ago? What the hell does him leaving for the NFL have to do with his ability to coach?

          • Mike has probably matured and might even regret leaving early. I would want to see Mike now in action to get a clearer picture of who he is than remember the past and think he is still the same. We all were immature and have grown into decent people. Mike is going through the same process.

        • Thanks for taking me down memory lane. I remember that now. He was jealous of Reggie. Didn’t like him or they didn’t like each other. And I was pi**ed when he demanded that he be let in the NFL early. I appreciate what he did at SC, he was a freak of a WR. He was man amongst kids out there, but I was angry when he left.

          • I don’t remember specific teammates he trashed, but I remember when Talked to arash markazi, and said negative things about his teammates. And this was about a month after the 2003 season ended, when just about the whole was so euphoric about the past season.

          • About a month after he left the team. The LA Times reported that teammates sensed a riff between Williams and Bush.

          • Didn’t know that! Hey, I get you mixed up with this other poster here. Are you the guy from the ie, or the guy from Huntington. I get you two guys mixed up.

          • Yeah. It was a what will SC do without Williams article, but shed some light on the Bush part. I am from the Inland Empire. Banning to be specific. Banning is referred to as the Pass Area.

          • Now I remember, you are the fellow dodger fan. That team has straight up oust me in a state of depression for the last 25 years. With the exception of 2004, every year has been an underachievement as far as talent goes. Starting in 1989, we have just been cursed, Imo. Those idiots, who bought the team, just threw money around, and didn’t pay attention to team chemistry!

          • Same here. I almost feel like a Cubs fan with all the letdowns. Kershaw gives his best every 5 days for nothing.

          • I was just thinking that. I feel like a Cubs fan. I recently moved to San Luis Obispo, and it is half, and half giant fans, and dodger fans. You always see the giant fans pompously bragging about their team, it drives me crazy.

          • My cousin was a lifelong Dodgers fan then he went to San Jose St., lived there for about 10 years, the Giants win three WS titles and he moves back a Giant. I hate a bandwagon fan.

          • I used to be a regular on the Dodgers mlb message board. But Benny Platt, and his minions kept kicking me off. Under the mccourts you couldn’t criticize the team on the message board, or it would be deleted. I criticized the team so much, that they eventually kicked me off for good. at least here you can criticize USC, and the head blogger.

          • Yeah. I just mentioned on the Scout/USC site that I felt Zach Banner didn’t play like (didn’t deserve) a 1st team All Conference Tackle and they’re all just blew a gasket. They hate any constructive criticism.

          • That is a rule of scout. You can’t criticize the college kids, and indefinitely userstand. It doesn’t having anything to do with Ryan Abraham and his people. The dodgers were the only team were you couldn’t criticize the team. I completely stay away from that message board.

          • Actually Shotgun Spratling came into the discussion and gave his argument for Banner in a respectable way. But there’s no dancing around it, Banner’s been a letdown or close.

          • Trading Pedro Martinez, Mike Konerko and Mike Piazza , bringing in Daryl Strawberry and Hee Seop Choi, the Parking Lot Attendant and the Screaming Mimi, unable to beat the Cards, watching the Giants win 3 WS….you right the Dodgers are cursed.

          • I thought you were afraid of me after I got in that exchange with bucket, a little while back. I guess my new username, in some ways masks my old identity.

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