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Are you ready for some football? Revisit the 2023 Macon Touchdown Club season, prepare for 2024

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Dues are $250, for every weekly meeting, which includes dinner, local high school football players of the week, a sponsor spotlight, and an update by a different Bibb County (and Jones County) head coach each week, at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth on Pierce Ave.
Contact Bryant Longshore at 478-808-5718 or bryant.longshore@gmail.com, or send a check for $250 to Macon Touchdown Club, PO Box 28674, Macon, GA 31221

The 2024 schedule
Sept. 9  -  Radio host Bill King
Sept. 16  -  Samford head coach and Macon native Chris Hatcher
Sept. 23  - High school coaching legend and Georgia Tech defensive line coach Jess Simpson
Sept. 30  - Third-year Georgia Southern head coach Clay Helton

Oct. 7  -  Tenth-year Kennesaw State head coach and Macon native Brian Bohannon
Oct. 14  -  Third-year Fort Valley State head coach Shawn Gibbs
Oct. 21  -  First-year Mercer head coach Mike Jacobs
Oct. 28  -  Florida A&M head coach James Colzie

Nov. 4  -  TBD
Nov. 11  -  Army head coach and former Georgia Southern head coach Jeff Monken
Nov. 18  -  SEC Network host Dari Nowkhah
Nov. 25  -  TBD
Spring 2025  - Georgia head coach Kirby Smart - UGA

By Michael A. Lough
The Sports Report
centralgasports@gmail.com

          To get folks ready for football, The Central Georgia Sports Report is posting and re-posting last season’s guest speakers’ visits to the Macon Touchdown Club.

          One coach won’t be back. Mercer’s Drew Cronic was the 2023 season’s first speaker, but left after the Bears’ FCS playoff season to become offensive coordinator at Navy. His successor, Mike Jacobs, is on the schedule.

          Coaches cover all sorts of topics, from their teams, to Central Georgia players on the roster, to everything going on in the world of college football and sports.

          Every so often, things get a little more colorful than expected, and speakers range from head coaches, assistants, former coaches, coaches-turned-announcers, former players, regional/national writers, and radio hosts.

          Each Monday for the next several week, The Sports Report will post a video from last season. Tentatively, some weeks may include a video from 2022 or 2021.

          And for hundreds of videos on Central Georgia sports, from Halls of Fame to interviews and celebration vids and one-on-ones, visit The Central Georgia Sports Report’s youtube page.