Fyffe's next win -- which could come tonight -- will be No. 300 for Paul Benefield at his alma mater.
Fyffe coach Paul Benefield talks to Alvin Briggs, executive director the AHSAA after the AHSAA Super 7 Class 2A championship at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. Benefield's next win at Fyffe will be his 300th at the school.
“It’s something to be proud of,” he said. “Hopefully, it’s something for all the kids who played a part of it to be proud of. They were a big part of it. I was just a minor part. They did all the work and were on the field. Jamie Riggs won 293 games in 27 years at T.R. Miller. Danny Horn, currently second on the all-time wins list, has 287 victories at Central-Clay County and Clay County combined. All-time wins leader Terry Curtis has 276 wins at UMS-Wright.
Benefield was 45-11 at Sylvania. He’s 299-45 at Fyffe. He has won 172 of 189 region games and is 63-23 in the postseason with six state championships. In an anonymous“We just had some scrappy little hard-nosed kids that came along and stuck with the program and just kept plugging,” he said.His first four teams at Fyffe went 8-3, 8-3, 7-5 and 5-5 before winning at least 10 games in seven straight seasons.
Benefield’s first state title came in 2014. He’s won one at least every other year since, including three straight from 2018-2020. The Red Devils went 15-0 and won again in 2022. Benefield, 64, has hinted at retirement a few times over the years. But he also realizes how special it is to coach at his alma mater, live two miles from the school and to have built a legacy at Fyffe. He says the losses still hurt more than the wins are celebrated.Benefield is one of the true characters in high school football – a great coach with a down home attitude who has done it his way and been a huge success.
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