Ron Estes ends run as interim football coach at Blissfield

BLISSFIELD — Ron Estes, who has spent the five years as the interim head football coach at Blissfield, is retiring for a second time.

“I’ve stayed so long because I’ve loved it,” he said. “I never thought it would be for five years. That wasn’t what I had in mind. When Ryan (Love) stepped down and I had just come back as an assistant, I said I’d take the job for a year.

“I’ve had a great time. I’ll miss the kids.”

Estes, 62, was an athlete at Blissfield, playing for coaches like Al Diver, Larry Tuttle and Denny Thompson.

“I had a lot of great coaches,” he said. “I’m sure that influenced me.”

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He got his first varsity coaching job in the early 1980s and won a Tri-County Conference championship at Deerfield while still in college. He was a football assistant at Toledo Central Catholic and wanted to coach either basketball or football. When Northwood, Ohio, offered him the basketball job, he took it. He later would coach at Summerfield before becoming an assistant for Blissfield’s football team.

He became head coach at the tail end of Blissfield’s 33-game losing streak.

He quickly turned the program around, leading the Royals to eight playoff appearances in 11 years. Blissfield played in 2007 at Ford Field in the state finals.

He stepped away from coaching football and wound up coaching the Blissfield varsity basketball team for a couple of seasons. When he retired from teaching, he coached basketball at Adrian College for a season.

Blissfield head football coach Ron Estes calls out to his team during a game against Whiteford this season.

He returned to coach Blissfield, coming back as an assistant coach on Ryan Love’s staff. Then Love…

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Author : The Daily Telegram

Publish date : 2023-11-27 09:07:02

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