{"id":2772,"date":"2024-06-24T20:14:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T01:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2024-07-26T00:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:35:26","slug":"paul-benefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/2024\/paul-benefield\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Benefield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fyffe High school\u2019s current head football coach just completed leading the Red Devils to their 13<sup>th<\/sup> undefeated regular season (10-0). Benefield, 64,like many of this year\u2019s Hall of Fame selectees, is a 1976 graduate of Fyffe High School. He completed his bachelor\u2019s degree at Jacksonville State University in 1980 and earned his master\u2019s in 1981.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He began his football coaching career back at his alma mater as an assistant coach from 1981-1987. He moved to DeKalb County rival Plainview from 1997 \u2013 1992 and then took his first head-coaching position at another DeKalb County school Sylvania 1992. He compiled a 45-11 record in five seasons leading the Rams to back-to-back 12-1 seasons in 1994 and 1995. He moved back home to Fyffe in in 1997 and for the last 26 years has been nothing short of amazing.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This year\u2019s team finished the regular season 10-0 for the 13<sup>th<\/sup> time in his tenure at Fyffe, and counting Sylvania\u2019s back-to-back 10-0 regular seasons, give him 15 in 31 years as a head coach. Since taking over the Red Devils program, Fyffe has gone 287-44 with a 51-game winning streak from 2018-2021 and has been the AHSAA\u2019s winningest football program for the last 20 years. His teams have won five state championships since 2014 and have finished runner-up twice (2007, 2015). His 2019 team outscored opponents\u00a0 639-43, and his 2014 team set a then state record scoring 751 points in a 15-0 state championship run.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fyffe two Class 2A crowns in going 15-0 each year in 2018 and 2019, moved to Class 3A in 2020 and finished 15-0 again to claim its third consecutive state title.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Benefield has compiled an incredible 332-55 record, which ranks third all time. His winning percentage of 85.8% is the best in state history for any coach winning more than 200 games. His teams put together a streak of 70 consecutive games scoring 20 or more points, his 58-23 playoff record is one of the best in the state, and his 29 state playoff appearances ranks fourth all-time in the AHSAA.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was names Alabama Coach of the year in 2007 and 2014, and has coached in the AHSAA North-South and Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fyffe High school\u2019s current head football coach just completed leading the Red Devils to their 13th undefeated regular season (10-0). Benefield, 64,like many of this year\u2019s Hall of Fame selectees, is a 1976 graduate of Fyffe High School. He completed his bachelor\u2019s degree at Jacksonville State University in 1980 and earned his master\u2019s in 1981.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-67","tag-fyffe-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}