(Greenfield) Nodaway Valley has tabbed Seth Comly as their next head football coach.
The move was announced in mid-July. Duane Matthess resigned in June after one season as head coach. It didn’t take long for Comly, last year’s defensive coordinator, to throw his hat in the ring. “Without question. I had been wanting to be a head coach for a while. I found out he was leaving and within not even five minutes I was getting ahold of our athletic director and letting him know. Even though I knew he knew about it I wanted to make sure he was giving me a chance to at least apply for the job and I was lucky enough to get it.”
He’s an internal hire so perhaps that may lead to some stability in a program that hasn’t had a coach hang around for more than a year since Steve Shantz last coached in 2017. “Me being as far as I know the first hire as head coach to come from within, it’s a good possibility. Especially with me being in a leadership role as the defensive coordinator and getting involved with these kids. I’m a local. I grew up around here and went to Adair-Casey. I want to be at one school spending my time. These guys know that and they know I’m genuine with them. When it comes the revolving door I think it’s finally done revolving and I think the guys know that and I think that will help get this program back on track and bring it back to the power it was.
He describes being a head football coach at the high school level as a dream come true. “It’s a great feeling. Kind of a mixed bag of emotions. A little nervous because it’s my first head job, but it’s a great feeling. It’s a dream come true or at least the start of one.”
He’ll hang his hat on the defensive end. “I’d say defense. I played that in college mainly when I was at Simpson. I learned from a great coach, Jim Glogowski. He’s the defensive coordinator now at Minnesota-Mankato and he was a good one to learn from.
Comly enters his 7th season as a coach. Prior to spending last season with the Wolverines he was an assistant for five years at West Central Valley, including a stint as an offensive coordinator.
