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K E Y D E T H E a D C O A KEYDETCCaall MM HEADcCcCoo mbsCOACHmbs I THE CITADEL ‘67 I SEVENTH SEASON Now in his seventh season as head coach 1977 seasons. of VMI football, Cal McCombs continues to McCombs is quick to point out that it direct the program with a steady hand. takes teamwork to build a winner, and the Coaching football at a military college resurgence of VMI football has not been the requires vision, determination, enthusiasm, product of one person’s labor. Believing that patience, and the ability to win people over there are no shortcuts to success, McCombs with trust and commitment. has taken a grass roots approach to rebuilding In McCombs’ six years, he has instilled VMI football fortunes - brick-by-brick. those virtues into the heart of VMI football He has improved VMI’s recruiting pool and the result has been success, not just on and retention rates by selling the total VMI the field, but in the classroom and beyond - experience to prospects, with the goal of an where young VMI football alumni are making Institute degree and a lifelong bond among an impact in the world. fellow graduates: the ultimate rewards to In 2002, McCombs led the Keydets to six those who join the VMI football family. wins, the most victories since 1981, and was With a focus on the priorities that pro- named Southern Conference Coach of the duce the total student-athlete, McCombs not Year - the third VMI football coach bestowed only rallied his troops, he made them believe that honor and the first since Bob Thalman in that success both on and off the field is at 1981. McCombs, later that season was tabbed hand, not some distant dream down the road. the Virginia State Coach of the Year by the Embarking on a new era of VMI football, Richmond Touchdown Club. He led VMI foot- McCombs was announced as the Institute’s ball to 12 wins in 2002 and 2003-the most head coach on Dec. 18,1998 after a successful over a two-year period since the 1976 and stint as a coordinator and assistant coach at V M I 12 Virginia Military Institute Football 2005.
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