Revere Hires New Varsity Football Coach
Michael Murphy will replace Phil Heyn who resigned in November.
Revere has named Michael Murphey as the new head football coach for the Minutemen. Murphy, who will officially be appointed at the Feb. 19 school board meeting, was hired for the job on Feb. 5, according to a press release. He is currently the offensive line coach for Case Western Reserve University and a school counselor at Kenston High School. Murphy was chosen from a field of more than 60 candidates to replace Phil Heyn who resigned in November. Heyn held the job for three years with a 4-26 record. “We are pleased to have Mike join the staff at Revere," Superintendent Randay Boroff said in a statement. "With his experiences and successes, we feel he is the right person to establish new expectations, create new traditions of excellence …
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Bill Fairweather
8:11 am on Saturday, April 20, 2013
Coach Murphey has a tall order in front of him getting the football program back the very tradition and prominence it once held. "If you build it, they will come" seems all too apt here, both in player and coaching talent as well as community fan base. As one who played there when Revere's football program first turned the corner decades ago, when we played before standing room only crowds, I … more ›