{"id":64688,"date":"2013-04-09T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=64688"},"modified":"2018-10-01T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T18:01:33","slug":"espn-boston-profiles-new-brooks-school-football-coach-pat-foley-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/09\/espn-boston-profiles-new-brooks-school-football-coach-pat-foley-04\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Boston profiles new Brooks School football coach Pat Foley ’04"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pat Foley ’04 during his Bates playing days.<\/p><\/div>\n

Reporter Brandon Hall of ESPN Boston offers a brief Q-and-A with Pat Foley ’04, former All-NESCAC linebacker who is the new head coach at the Brooks School, where the program has won one game since 2010.<\/p>\n

The past isn’t prologue, Foley tells Hall<\/a>.<\/strong> “Between now and when I get on the practice field for the first time, I’m not gonna put too much weight on the past, and see how the guys do moving forward.”<\/p>\n

Foley takes the position at Brooks, in North Andover, Mass., after four years as co-defensive coordinator at Colgate University.<\/p>\n

He’s leaving college football coaching because he wants “to be more involved with other aspects of kids lives” outside football. “At the college level, it got to a point where the only interaction I had with kids was on the football side…. At Brooks, I’ll be more involved in other aspects of their lives.”<\/p>\n