Just wondering if anyone still keeps in touch with him and know how he's doing...

Dayne Brown had a great season at St. Cloud High School in St. Cloud, Florida. At mid-season, he was promoted to D-Coordinator and his defense gave up less than 14 points a game for the rest of the season. After the season was over, the head coach at St. Cloud took a job at a large neighboring school, Lake Howell. Dayne was offered the head coaching job there at St. Cloud but turned it down to go to Lake Howell as well as the D Coordinator. Apparently Lake Howell has around 3000 kids and has produced several NFL players. Dayne seems to love it down there. I am glad he is getting the respect he deserves!!

He is well deserving of the position and success that he is experiencing in Florida.

Wow thanks for the updates guys...good to hear Coach Brown succeeding like this...

Dayne Brown had a great season at St. Cloud High School in St. Cloud, Florida. At mid-season, he was promoted to D-Coordinator and his defense gave up less than 14 points a game for the rest of the season. After the season was over, the head coach at St. Cloud took a job at a large neighboring school, Lake Howell. Dayne was offered the head coaching job there at St. Cloud but turned it down to go to Lake Howell as well as the D Coordinator. Apparently Lake Howell has around 3000 kids and has produced several NFL players. Dayne seems to love it down there. I am glad he is getting the respect he deserves!!

Many nice things to say about Lake Howell. Good school, good area to live. St. Cloud's not bad, either, but Lake Howell is very much a metropolitan high school in the middle of the Orlando metroplex (Class 5A of football's six classes).

 

The Silver Hawks were 4-6 last year, 2-8 the year before and 1-9 in both 2002 and 2003. I should note that in 2002-04 Lake Howell was in a much tougher district. The former coach was dismissed for reasons I probably can't go into here.

 

NFL players from Lake Howell include 4-time Pro Bowler Trevor Pryce (Ravens), Chiefs linebacker Kawika Smith, and now-retired players Tam Hopkins and Marquette Smith. Their QB (Taylor Beasley, sr., 6-2, 200) is supposed to be one of the best in the state, averaging 253.3 yards per game last fall (160 completions on 298 attempts); he was named second team All-State in Class 5A.

 

St. Cloud, a Class 3A school, was 5-5 last year. Over the second half of the season, they gave up 20.1 points per game after averaging 32.8 allowed in the first five games. To show you why they made Dayne their new D-coordinator, the Bulldogs had a three-game losing streak coming into the midseason point when they scored 42, 47 and 29 points, yet still lost.

 

I always wondered what Dayne might be able to do if he had a bigger student body and better administrative support to call on.

Just wanted to give everyone an update on Dayne. I spoke to his best friend in Magoffin County this past weekend at their scrimmage and he informed me that Dayne is now the Asst Director of Football Operations at Northwestern University!! What an awesome promotion to one of the most deserving people i know!