Kellogg Promotes Kerfoot To Head Football Coach

Kellogg High officials won’t have to order a name plate for the office door of the new head football coach.

The one used by the head boys basketball coach will suffice. Wildcats basketball coach Tony Kerfoot will pull double duty. He will be recommended to the school board Monday to replace Shawn Amos.

Amos resigned recently to take the head football job at Coeur d’Alene.

Kerfoot, 38, has served as head basketball coach the past two years while also assisting Amos.

“It’s a big relief,” Amos said of Kerfoot’s hire. “He’s exactly what the kids need. I have no worries now. Things are going to stay on track. The kids know him and respect him.”

Kerfoot expressed interest in the job last week after school officials had offered the job to Amos’ brother, Kelly, the head football coach at Clearwater Valley.

“I want to continue the program that Shawn has started,” said Kerfoot, an assistant football coach at various stops the past 15 years. “Shawn got the kids to where they’ve learned commitment and have formed very good work habits. And they’re good kids. If you get good kids working hard you can’t go wrong.”

Kerfoot realizes there will be difficulties coaching back-to-back sports.

“It’s going to be a challenge,” he said. “But I’ve been an assistant every fall. The way my wife looked at it is ‘Hey, you’re going to be gone in the fall anyway.’ Everything is being done with her approval.”

Kerfoot sees the challenges as more professional than anything else.

“I’ll have to be more organized, more proficient in the things that I do,” he said.

“We may not have All-American athletes, but we’ve got kids with All-American hearts. That’s all you need.”

, DataTimes