FRANKLIN COUNTY (WSLS 10 SPORTS) - Another familiar face in a new place; the Eagles of Franklin County welcome former Salem assistant and Hidden Valley head coach Jr. Edwards to Rocky Mount.
Edwards spent the past seven season as an assistant coach in Salem, where the Spartans' perennial power program served as a great example for Edwards' winning record.
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The Eagles are coming off a 1-9 season, where a brutal schedule and a rash of injuries left Franklin County shorthanded. Coach Edwards has been busy installing his own offense and defense, but more than that, he's busy trying to change the football process in Franklin County.
Coach Edwards explained, "We just talk a lot about the process. Their whole life process, their weight room, their academics, their school, all the way onto trying to be physical on the field. Just... it's one big process that's kind of been our buzzword around here and we're trying to get better at pieces of our process a little bit at a time."
Senior nose guard Nick Turner said the change is a good thing for the team.
"It's good. I mean, we've been going to a lot of hard camps and stuff, and work out sessions, and training periods, and he's been teaching us a lot. And hopefully we can just learning to use it on the field," Turner said.
Franklin County opens at Liberty in Bedford on August 28.