Sparks prepared to welcome Dungy, Gailey to C-N coaching clinic

Carson-Newman head football coach Ken Sparks is geared up to welcome hundreds of coaches to the Music Road Hotel and Convention Center in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., for the annual Carson-Newman Championship Coaching Clinic.

Former NFL coaches Tony Dungy and Chan Gailey highlight the roster of speakers for the event from March 8-10.

“Tony wrote a book called Quite Strength. That describes Tony Dungy very well,” Carson-Newman head football coach Ken Sparks said. “To see a guy accomplish what he’s accomplished yet be so humble and down to earth, it’s just tremendous. He’ll have something to say. It’ll be fun to see our folks respond to what he’s saying.”

Indianapolis Colts coach Clyde Christensen, Norm and Bobby Evans and Ken Smith round out the roster of speakers

“There’s not a clinic like this one in the country,” Sparks said. “It’s a very low cost clinic with a lot of quality and a lot of good food and a lot of fun.”

Sparks said he hopes the clinic contains a message with some substance.

“The main thing we do at this clinic is try to encourage,” Sparks said. :Encourage coaches and their wives to look to the right scoreboards to determine what’s going on with our worth and our significance. We want the coaches regardless of what level they’re coaching to realize that it’s not the level or where you coach, but it’s how you coach – that you need to be doing things with Christ in mind.”

Call 865-471-3466 to sign-up. The cost is 25 dollars per couple (coach and wife pre-registered) or 30 dollars at the door.