Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast

The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numer...

The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numer...

Our guest for Episode 17 is Mr. Paul Spychala, a well-known, long-time New Jersey sports public address announcer, who began his career right out of the gates as a college intern with Suburban Cable. Opportunity soon found him and when he was asked to fill in as a baseball announcer for ESPN’s vacationing Bob Lee. It was from this opportunity that his rise in the industry began. A question our aud...

The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numer...

The Here We Go High School Football Podcast welcomes our longtime friend and former Middletown South coaching colleague, Coach Bob Generelli, who is certainly no stranger to our audience on the Here We Go High School Football Podcast. Coach G, an Offensive Line Coach by trade, is widely known around the Shore Conference and the State as a highly successful Head Coach. He has been inducted to numer...

In Part 2, Coach Tesi describes becoming part of the first staff at the new Colts Neck High School in 1998, and how he ultimately became the schools long time Head Freshman Football Coach. Coach Tesi describes the transition of the program to Coach LaCava and how players initial reservations gave way to complete buy in and new program successes. Coach Tesi recalls some of his most fond memories as...

In Part 1, Coach Vince Tesi describes growing up in Staten Island, NY and why he played travel youth football for the Staten Island Boys Football League until he graduated from high school. Coach Tesi details how he decided to attend the University of Miami and the steps he took to walk on the UM Football Team as a member of the scout squad for his freshman year. During this time Coach Tesi met fu...

In this episode, we welcome our friend and former Colts Neck Defensive Back Coach Greg Hope. Coach Hope has an extensive football past and he details his good fortune of being coached by very good men at every level, from Wall Pop Warner to Wall High School to Montclair State University. Coach LaCava and Coach Hope initially met over 20 years ago when both were assistant coaches at Manchester High...

Coach Letson directly addresses long standing critics and digs deeper into his defensive philosophy, game planning and influences including Bill Belichick and former Ocean Township great Coach George Conti. This episode includes how Coach Belichick's game plan in Super Bowl 25 greatly influenced Coach Letson's defensive thinking and approach to game planning throughout his career: Stop their A Gam...

Coach Letson details how his version of the 53 Defense evolved over his years as the Defensive Coordinator at Middletown High School South, when the school appeared in 5 straight NJ CJ 4 State Title games from 1988 to 1992. This episode includes some X's and O's and video footage of 2 of his most dominate MLB's whose unique talents shined in the same 53 scheme 18 years apart: #52 Joe Little Middle...

In this episode, we welcome Dr. John Andl, a man who has meant so much to both of us as a coach, mentor and lifelong friend. Our journey with Coach Andl began when he joined Coach Comeforo’s staff at Middletown South High School in 1985 and he became Coach LaCava’s RB position coach. In 1986, Coach Letson joined Coach Andl as an assistant on South’s coaching staff as the Secondary Coach and little...

In this episode, we welcome our great friend Jack Nascimento, our former Colts Neck Assistant and current OC at Donovan Catholic. This episode underscores the lifetime bond of friendship that coaching this great game of football together can create, which sometimes only takes 1 year together as this episode reveals. Coach Nas describes his introduction to the game with a great experience with Keyp...

In this episode, we welcome our friend and coaching colleague, Coach Craig Cicardo. Our ties with Coach Cicardo go back to when we were all coaching in Middletown, NJ in the late 1980's and early 1990s. Coach Cicardo has a very interesting path and one that also has some similarities to our own. Coach Cicardo was a part of the inaugural football class at Lacy High School in 1981. At Lacey he playe...

Our Special Guest in Episode 8 is Kevin "KC" Keenan, our former player at Allentown High School who joined our staff upon graduating high school in June 2002. KC shares his coaching and career journey and how his special relationship with Coach LaCava impacted his decisions during a time of uncertainty in his life. KC also shares how he and his Allentown teammates embraced Coach LaCava's challenge...

Our special guest in this episode is our close friend and coaching colleague, Joe Murphy. This episode takes a deep dive into Coach Murph’s lifelong passion for the game of football that first began with playing Pop Warner in Middle Queens, NY where he was born and raised, to the present day as an Assistant Coach for the Allentown Redbirds. Coach Murph reflects on his playing days in the NYC Adult...

Our special guest in this episode is Abby Letson, Colts Neck High School's female place kicker from 2012 to 2013. Abby, who is Coach Letson's daughter, shares her unique experience on the Colts Neck Football team, going from a successful youth travel soccer player to kicking an x-point in a NJ State Sectional Football final. Abby won the kicking job during her senior year, and she went on to be on...

Our guest on this episode is Chuck Welsh, former Head Football Coach of Freehold Township High School in NJ from 1986 to 1993. Coach Welsh is a very close friend, a consummate education professional, a cerebral and caring coach, a loving husband of over 50 years, and a father and grandfather who has a very unique personal story that you will want to hear. Circumstances in Coach’s life led him to e...

In this episode, Coach Letson brings up some favorite memories over his many years of coaching, with discussions including: getting creative to motivate players when your team needs an edge; how tough players never cease to amaze; the difficult decisions Coach Lacava had to make for his player safety, and more! ____________________________ Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Co...

Coach Letson shares his lifetime experiences and influences that shaped his personality as a coach and his philosophy as a High School Defensive Coordinator for 21 seasons. ____________________________ Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava. They offer a combined 50+ years of coaching experience to help new and seasoned coaches build successful h...

In this episode, Coach LaCava reviews his offensive philosophy on the high school level, including how it evolved over the years from being a player to a Head Coach at Allentown, Colts Neck, and Holmdel high schools. ____________________________ Here We Go! A High School Football Podcast is hosted by Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava. They offer a combined 50+ years of coaching experience to help...

We're kicking off this episode with our very first special guest: Coach Chris Bova! Coach Bova played with show host Greg LaCava in high school and was coached by co-host Tom Letson. His love for the game and his deep connection to Greg and Tom brought him back to the football field as a coach, and together these three share a long, successful coaching history alongside a lifelong friendship. Tune...

Welcome to Here We Go: A High School Football Podcast! In this episode, your hosts Coaches Tom Letson and Greg LaCava will discuss their football history, from playing to coaching. They'll give you a look at what this podcast is all about and what you can expect to hear when you tune in. Be sure to subscribe to get notified when new episodes are released!