Football Coach, Mike Singletary Resigned last Month

Hall of Fame High school Football coach Mike Singletary was a linebacker for the Chicago Bears during the 1980s. But it looks like his success on the gridiron has not transferred well to coaching. Mike resigned as the High School Football Coach of Trinity Christian Academy in Texas. He had submitted his resignation back in December with the hope of focusing on consulting opportunities and motivational speaking.

During his two seasons as the head coach, Singletary had accumulated a 1-21 record. While going just 1-10 in 2018, Christian Academy went 0-11 in the 2019 season. Also, the Pro Football Hall of Famer had been a head coach of the Memphis Express. During the long season of the league, he also had a 2-6 record with the Express. It was in 2016 when Mike’s last NFL experience of coaching came up. At that time he was a Los Angeles Rams defensive assistant. As the 49ers head coach with his almost two and a half-season, he never got the opportunity to win more than eight games and went 18-22. He is popularly known for post-game tirades in which after a penalty, Singletary sent Vernon Davis to the locker room early.

About Mike Singletary.

Michael Singletary, also known as Samurai Mike is an American gridiron football player and coach. He was born in Houston, Texas, the U.S on October 9, 1958. From 1981 to 1992, he served as the middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Singletary was such a wizard, and he played almost all down. In his entire career of 12 years, there were only two-games which he had missed.

Early Years.

Due to the strict church doctrines of his father who was an assistant minister, he could not play football before reaching his junior high school. Initially, he was not considered fit for the game and was often called too small for it. But gradually, his talent as a linebacker for delivering hard was noticed. Consecutively during 1979 and 1980, he was purported as All-American and Southwest Conference Player of the Year. His average went to 15-tackles a game at Baylor University in college. Irrespective of his short stature of 5 feet 11 inches, Singletary’s hitting talent was enough to break his opponents’ helmet. The ferocious tackles he played was enough to get him one of the important places in the game.

Singletary’s Career.

In the 1981 NFL, in the second round, Singletary was drafted by the Bears. Surprisingly, he had managed to earn NFL all-rookie team honors despite the fact that he could not start with the first seven games of the 1981 season. From the 1982 season, he held the middle linebacker position. The breakthrough year of his career was 1983 when in all his last 10 seasons, he was the first or second-leading tackler. From 1983 to 1992, Singletary played in all 10 consecutive Pro Bowls. And, all of these seven seasons, Singletary was the first-team All-Pro. From 1985 to 1988, he played as the defensive player of the NFL.

After the end of his playing career, he started as a motivational speaker & then turned around coaching his team. He accepted the position of the linebackers coach for the Baltimore Ravens in 2003 and later he also became the coach for the San Francisco 49ers. In 2008, upon Mike Nolan having been fired, Singletary got promoted to the head coach of 49ers’ — back then in the remainder of the season, under Singletary’s coaching, the team went to the 5–4 record. After this, in 2009, he was promoted permanently to the coaching position. However, around the end of the 2010 regular season, Singletary was fired with the 49ers struggling. During 2011–13, he was the Minnesota Vikings’ linebackers coach and an assistant coach. In 2016, Singletary also served as the coaching staff for the Los Angeles Rams.