Coaches' Corner Volume 32 - Coach John Bland, Head Football Coach at the University of the Cumberlands discusses Option football in detail with Host John Anderson in this extended edition of Coaches Corner.

About the Guest on this Edition of Coaches Corner

Coach John Bland completed his fifth season in 2010 as the Head Coach at the University of the Cumberlands. His coaching background includes five years as the quarterbacks coach at NCAA Division I-A Rice University under Coach Ken Hatfield, and six at Southern Arkansas University, where was as an assistant coach from 1994-1999 and the school's head coach in 2000.

Coach Bland was an assistant coach at Central High School in Columbia, TN and a graduate assistant at Auburn University, where he worked as a graduate assistant under Pat Dye. Bland was a 4 year letterman at Quarterback at the University of Arkansas , where he helped the Razorbacks to four consecutive bowl appearances in the Holiday, Liberty, Orange, and Cotton Bowls.