Tim Viall- UNE offenisve coordinatr & Strength and conditioning coach
What caused you to want to become a college football coach?
Are there any challenging aspects of being an OC that someone wouldn’t know about ?
What is the most fun you have as a college coach?
What did it feel like to win your first game as a coach?
What do you look for when recruiting players?
Coach Tim Viall is the Offensive Coordinator for the University of New England Football team and has been a major part in player development and offensive success. In addition to counseling players on nutrition as well as helping out in the weight room every morning at 6 and 7 am for he is the teams strength and conditioning coach as well as the Offensive coordinator. . Viall has a degree in nutrition and another degree in exercise science. He has also coached all over the offensive side of the ball from offensive line to quarterbacks. Viall also gets the players involved with some pregame activity, Viall leads the stretch and “Activation” period at all UNE football games. This helps the players warm up their bodies about an hour away from kickoff.
I have locked down a date to meet with coach Viall on monday. I would also like to speak to any of the players on the team that are around coach viall, more specifically in the position group that he coaches ( Quarterbacks ). I have my story lined up and I want to portray coach viall as a core piece of the success of UNE Football. I also would like to speak to someone else in the strength and conditioning department to see what it is like to work with coach Viall in the office. I would also like to briefly discuss how college coaching is a sink or swim type of job. You either are successful and you keep your job, or you can not perform and end up losing your job. I would also like to take time in this profile to explain the long hours of a day in coaching college football whether it be in the off- season or fall camp. The main goal of this profile is to show people that may think that all football players and the coaching staff just goof off and don’t do anything productive that they’re wrong. I would like to use Coach Viall as an example of the hard work that all of us do on the football team whilst balancing a life outside of work as well.
“We Will Party” 400+ word draft ( Updated to full peer reviewed version)
“A Profile on Viall”
A positive approach to football and a winning attitude are a great recipe for the sucess of UNE. If you then add the drive to help players have an enjoyable expierence in football and a well diciplined offensive unit you can win football games, have a great time, and most of all party.
Coach Tim Viall has been the Offensive Coordinator at the University of New England for over 4 years, and has played a major role in player development on and off the field.
In addition to being the offensive coordinator Coach Viall is the Strength and Conditioning coach for the Nor’Easters football team.
Viall helps more than the whole team, he takes time to work with players individually.
Sophomore Evan Glynos said this about Viall:
” Viall wants the best for me and will always go the extra mile for me litterally, he and I went on a 2.5 mile run because he wanted me in better shape to play. “
Evan Glynos is an example of many players that Tim Viall has helped his players imporve themselves for the betterment of the team as well as the individual.
The coaches have the task of planning the practice day around over 100 players schedules, as well as being in compliance with the NCAA guidelines for spring practice.
A typical day for Coach Viall through a Wednesday spring practice:
“ We get there around 8 o’clock, and we have our first meeting at 8:30. I try to go over the practice plan beforehand. Then we have our special teams meeting where the whole staff and all of the players are in attendance. We then dismiss the players for breakfast, and then we get ready to practice. After practice I usually take a shower and then go over film with the other coaches until our position meetings later on in the afternoon.” Viall said.
In a high risk high reward type of job that is being a college coach, so finding what drives coach viall to continue with college football was great to hear.
“ I had used up all of my eligibility and I wasn’t ready to leave the game behind , so I decided to coach. First at the High School level for one year. Then at Bowdwin college for 3 years, and now I am coaching here at UNE.”
In football as a whole players and coaches have many experiences regarding their game winning memories at the high school and collegiate level. Viall shared the experiences at each level that he expressed were his favorite.
“ In my senior year on our senior day, I caught a touchdown pass from a buddy of mine who was a third string quarterback who the coaches allowed to play the last half of that senior game. In college it would be blocking a punt which all but sealed the title for us at MIT. Then as a coach it had to be UNE vs Bridgewater state where we came back and won in overtime because a backup left tackle kicked the game winning field goal.”
Viall then recalled his first win at UNE and how that day transpired.
” It was a week 2 gave versus Alvernia state ( 2019) which was an away game. It was a close game.. closer than it shouldve been but we won. It was great and we celebrated like we would for any other game like we always do.”
Coach viall has a saying in all of his offensive meetings that says ” and then we party” followed by a graphic of people dancing and its captioning “Lets party” Through the interview the orgins of this imfamous quote came up.
” It came from the Defeensive coordinator at MIT, he claimed that football should not be an added stress towards the rest of your daily obligations like classes or home life , it shouldnt be an added stress. He encouraged his defense to play fast, play loose, and most of all party. As someone who had a different midset this really struck me, and I now have a new approach on football.
“I was a part of a program that wasnt used to winning, I was part of a progam that won 3 games in 4 years, so I now have a new appreciation for the term ‘lets party’ because we now get enjoy every win , becasuse there was a time where we didnt win a lot.”
Viall contunies to have sucess and is hoping to help bring the Nor’Easters closer to the goal of a confrence championshgip as well as a NCAA Divison three championchip.
“We Will Party” (FINAL)
“A Profile on Viall”
A positive approach to football and a winning attitude are a great recipe for the success of UNE. If you then add the drive to help players have an enjoyable experience in football and a well disciplined offensive unit you can win football games, have a great time, and most of all party.
Coach Tim Viall has been the Offensive Coordinator at the University of New England for over 4 years, and has played a major role in player development on and off the field.
In addition to being the offensive coordinator Coach Viall is the Strength and Conditioning coach for the Nor’Easters football team.
Viall helps more than the whole team, he takes time to work with players individually.
Sophomore Evan Glynos said this about Viall:
” Viall wants the best for me and will always go the extra mile for me literally, he and I went on a 2.5 mile run because he wanted me in better shape to play. “
Evan Glynos is an example of many players that Tim Viall has helped his players imporve themselves for the betterment of the team as well as the individual.
The coaches have the task of planning the practice day around over 100 players schedules, as well as being in compliance with the NCAA guidelines for spring practice.
A typical day for Coach Viall through a Wednesday spring practice:
“ We get there around 8 o’clock, and we have our first meeting at 8:30. I try to go over the practice plan beforehand. Then we have our special teams meeting where the whole staff and all of the players are in attendance. We then dismiss the players for breakfast, and then we get ready to practice. After practice I usually take a shower and then go over film with the other coaches until our position meetings later on in the afternoon.” Viall said.
In a high risk high reward type of job that is being a college coach, so finding what drives coach viall to continue with college football was great to hear.
“ I had used up all of my eligibility and I wasn’t ready to leave the game behind , so I decided to coach. First at the High School level for one year. Then at Bowdwin college for 3 years, and now I am coaching here at UNE.”
In football as a whole players and coaches have many experiences regarding their game winning memories at the high school and collegiate level. Viall shared the experiences at each level that he expressed were his favorite.
“ In my senior year on our senior day, I caught a touchdown pass from a buddy of mine who was a third string quarterback who the coaches allowed to play the last half of that senior game. In college it would be blocking a punt which all but sealed the title for us at MIT. Then as a coach it had to be UNE vs Bridgewater state where we came back and won in overtime because a backup left tackle kicked the game winning field goal.”
Viall then recalled his first win at UNE and how that day transpired.
” It was a week 2 game versus Alvernia state ( 2019) which was an away game. It was a close game.. closer than it should’ve been but we won. It was great and we celebrated like we would for any other game like we always do.”
Coach Viall has a saying in all of his offensive meetings that says ” and then we party” followed by a graphic of people dancing and its captioning “Lets party” Through the interview the origins of this infamous quote came up.
” It came from the Defensive coordinator at MIT, he claimed that football should not be an added stress towards the rest of your daily obligations like classes or home life , it shouldn’t be an added stress. He encouraged his defense to play fast, play loose, and most of all party. As someone who had a different mindset this really struck me, and I now have a new approach on football.
“I was a part of a program that wasn’t used to winning, I was part of a program that won 3 games in 4 years, so I now have a new appreciation for the term ‘lets party’ because we now get enjoy every win , because there was a time where we didn’t win a lot.”
Viall continues to have success and is hoping to help bring the Nor’Easters closer to the goal of a conference championship as well as a NCAA Division three championship.
CAA Divison three championchip.
Overall Experience
I believe that overall this profile is better than my feature creature. I think that the things that I did wrong in the feature creature were corrected in the profile. The profile came easier to me because I had a better knowledge of journalism and what to expect by this time around. Additionally, it is easier to focus on one person ( Coach Viall ) versus the entire story of UNE Football. I had an easier time directing the focus to one person as opposed to all of those moving parts. One of the things that I did well was taking myself out of the story. Even though I have a connection to my interviewee I didn’t write it in the tone of myself explaining what coach Viall does, I wrote it strictly about Viall and took my personal bias out of it.The other thing that helped me greatly was using the in-class workshop time to ask questions that really helped with my word economy and location of where paragraphs should be. The final thing that I did to benefit my profile project was I capitalized on an opportunity to get a statement from Evan about his runs with coach viall. I was fortunate enough to experience Evan running with Viall and writing my profile in the same timespan. It really helped push the narrative that I am going for in this piece. I also took what worked in my feature creature and applied here in my profile that being storytelling aspects, and using a good writer’s voice to captivate my audience. In conclusion, this project helped me become a better writer and have a greater understanding of my future profession, any leg up on others when going into the workforce.
Overall my peer review went well, I received great feedback on word economy and what can be added to make it a more effective profile. Other than that I received mostly good reviews which helped make my process easier because now I have less to worry about. The things that I needed to make my profile were applied accordingly and in a good time frame. I think that all of my group members were on task and we had a good time helping each other refine our profiles. Todays time was used productively.
