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A Coach's Mentality
Cranbrook-Kingswoods
head coach and
quarterback are both
students of the game.
MIKE ROSENBAUM
Special to The Jewish News
teacher and Andy had been a student
there.
Cranbrook needed a geology
teacher and an assistant football
coach. Gerson was offered both jobs,
and accepted on the spot.
"You set foot on campus and you
fall in love with it immediately and
then someone says, 'We'll pay you to
live here and teach here.' And you
say, All right, I'll take it,'" Gerson
explained.
Gerson was an assistant coach for
seven years before the head coaching
job opened up. He applied, but didn't
get the job. He then decided to corn-
plete his master's at the University of
Windsor where he discovered that
"by some strange Canadian rule, I
had eligibility to play football at the
University of Windsor."
At age 30, Gerson went out for the
team, and became the starting wide
receiver with "all those college boys."
He played for Windsor for two
years. Then, in 1996, he landed the
head coaching position at Cranbrook.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pound Sloan
Eddleston became the starting varsity
quarterback last season and helped
lead a young team to a 5-4 mark,
throwing for 825 yards.
"Sloan is not blessed with great
skills. But he has size and he's very
smart," Gerson says. "So when I tell
him the philosophy of a play, he
understands it. And if he's going to
execute it, it means he's put a lot of
work into it."
Eddleston went to three football
camps this summer. "They were
impressed with how much he had
developed," Gerson says. Eddleston
calls Gerson "a player's coach" because
of his background as a player.
or 35-year-old Gary Ger-
son, playing organized
football was almost an
afterthought, something he
didn't do until he attended college.
For Sloan Eddleston, 16, playing
college football is a goal he's aiming
"Mr. Gerson is very big on doing
for, something he's working hard to
what is right and being a moral per-
achieve.
son. I think he tries to instill that in
For now, however, Gerson and
the kids a lot."
Eddleston are working together to
Gerson says his players must live
help Cranbrook-Kingswood High
by three guidelines borrowed from
School achieve gridiron success.
former Notre Dame coach Lou
Gerson is in his third year as the
Holtz: The players must all do their
Cranes' head coach. Eddleston, a
best, do what is right, and care. "And
junior, is in his second season as the
team's starting quarterback. The
journey that brought the two of
them together began 16 years
ago at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tenn.
Gerson loved football but
didn't play in high school
because "I felt I was too small to
play."
He continued to grow
through his late teens and, after
befriending some Vanderbilt
football players, Gerson walked
on to the team in his sopho-
more year.
Gerson stayed with the team
for four years without seeing
game action. As a "practice play-
er," however, "I learned to
absolutely love the game."
He also found it interesting
to watch the young, successful
coaches that we had, and how
they had an appreciation for
what certain patterns and cer-
Cranbrook coach Gary Gerson watches his players.
tain running plays would lead to
on the football field."
After leaving Vanderbilt with a
I play on those three themes fre-
While Gerson played for Windsor,
bachelor of science in geology, Ger-
quently," Gerson says.
Jason Eddleston was earning All-State
son traveled to Europe "searching for
Gerson's first responsibility, he
football honors . at Cranbrook. Eddie-
myself" He wound up in Holland
says,
is to help his players grow as
ston's exploits inspired his younger
where he played semi-pro football for
people. Winning football ganies is
brother, Sloan, who began playing
the Amsterdam Rams.
secondary.
football in eighth grade at Cran-
In 1987, Gerson returned to the
He added that it's particularly
brook-Kingswood Middle School. "I
U.S. with the intention of completing
rewarding to see young players "as
saw my brother play and it looked
his master's at Vanderbilt. But he
sophomores in this school, and then
like he was having a great time,"
made a fateful stop in Michigan to
you see them as seniors and you
Sloan recalls. "He was the big broth-
visit two friends, Andy and Sheila
er. He was the big idol."
COACH'S MENTALITY on page 194
Cohen. Sheila was a Cranbrook
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