It’s a new era of Navy football, and Brian Newberry is the face of it. Ken Niumatalolo, the winningest coach in school history with a 109-83 record over 15 years, was fired in December. It’s on Newberry now to stop the slide, ChrisVannini writes.
The Midshipmen conducted all 15 practice sessions allowed under NCAA rules, something they had rarely done in recent years due to either the timing of exams, depth issues caused by injuries or COVID-19 protocols.“We needed to use all of them,” head coach Brian Newberry said. “We had to grind them pretty good.”
Nobody expects Navy to be the dominant force it was in the 1940s and ‘50s, let alone to produce more Heisman Trophy winners — Joe Bellino in 1960 and Roger Staubach in 1963 won the award as Midshipmen — but it is a program that should annually play in bowl games. And to alumni around the world, it is a program that should beat Army. The Black Knights have won five of the last seven matchups after a 14-year Navy winning streak.Newberry has been a key part of the good and bad in recent years.
Gladchuk said at the time and still says now that the expectations were clear and that the program had fallen short of them. Coming off an 11-win season in 2019, Navy football was particularly hampered by the COVID-19 protocols in place during 2020 and 2021, which led to much less practice and workout time than normal. The Mids went 3-7 and 4-8 in those two seasons.
“If you studied the intensity and the productivity of the defense, in my mind that was a big part of our shortcoming in that we weren’t as tough as a program as we needed to be ,” Gladchuk said. “Brian always stood out because of his intensity and his intelligence.”“He knows how the academy is a special place to coach, especially someone who has coached at other schools,” senior center and team captainsaid. “He knows the ins and outs.
“I don’t think the option is dead by any stretch,” said Newberry, downplaying the effect of blocking rule changes. “I do think we’ve got to get creative on how we do certain things. It’s going to help us evolve. It’s a time to call for creativity and to do things better. We’re going to be in the gun as well, we’ll use the tight end, and what we’re doing is different than anybody else in the country.
Those kinds of asks have become a semi-regular occurrence at Navy. For years, Niumatalolo was frustrated that other academies ended class for athletes around noon, allowing for more meal time and an easier practice schedule than Navy, where classes end after 3 p.m. Gladchuk has regularly said those decisions are made above him. Newberry called it an ongoing discussion. But it’s an issue that has been unique to Navy.
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