By Al Muskewitz
Returns as Falcons’ head football coach, has previously been a football assistant and coached multiple sports there
Jeremy Satcher is Donoho’s new head football coach and he can hit the ground running because nobody really has to show him the ropes.
This will be his third tenure at school. Talk about versatile, in addition to a previous run as an assistant coach in the football program, he also has coached the Falcons in baseball, basketball (as boys and girls head coach), soccer and track.
“I think it’s a tremendous opportunity for him to be a head coach in a school system he’s very familiar with,” said Donoho athletics director Steve Gendron, who hired Satcher as his first baseball assistant. “He’s a very versatile guy, discipline oriented, a good leader. I’m excited to have him back.”
Satcher, 30, said he was “excited” for the opportunity. He also will teach Upper School physical education and be the assistant athletics director.
“It feels good to go back, especially going back to the place where I started my coaching career,” he said. “It’s special, especially being somewhere like family.
“I appreciate Donoho letting me come back for my very first head coaching job (in football) at the place I had my first coaching job ever. I’m appreciative, humbled and thankful to God for giving me this great opportunity and to Donoho having faith in me. It means a lot.”
Most recently Satcher has been the outside linebackers coach at Oxford. He’s also had stints at Point University and Jacksonville State.
He plans to finish out the school year at Oxford, honoring his commitment to help coach the softball team. It was “still in the works” whether he’ll be able to have a spring practice with the Falcons.
Satcher has done a little bit of everything in his previous tenures at Donoho. He worked with both lines and was head junior high coach in Shannon Felder’s football program and was defensive coordinator for Andy McWilliams.
When he came back, he was defensive coordinator and assistant head coach for the first two seasons under Mark Sanders, the coach he is succeeding in his latest return.
His immediately plan for the Falcons is to run the offense and let one of the assistants run the defense who coached with him before.
He was the boys basketball coach at Donoho in 2019 when the Falcons beat Pleasant Valley for their first Calhoun County Tournament win in 17 years.
“I could tell he was going to be a good coach,” Gendron said. “He listened to me every time we talked. If there was a problem, it was handled and he asked relevant questions and wanted to know the answers.” [*** read more]
