Mark “Big Dawg” Agent Coaches Woodlawn Warriors to 4-1
To Re-launch Comedy Shows Soon
(WOODLAWN - October 6, 2009) – He’s a pretty big dude. And he’s got a lot to say on both the gridiron and on stage.
At Woodlawn High School, he’s known to his 60 young players as Coach Agent. Most of them probably could never imagine seeing him on stage, talking serious smack, yet providing bona fide content to stimulate the intellect.
They probably could imagine this huge voice getting a bit loud, like tonight.
After a 53-8 route of Delaney on Friday, the coach said that the now 4-1 Woodlawn Warriors had a crappy practice.
And it’s pretty evident he made that clear to them.
To these young players, he is the father, and he said the other coaches are their uncles.
”We tell them that from day one,” he said.
He wants them to understand that giving anything short of one’s best is simply unacceptable.
”Tonight, they were feeling themselves,” he stated. And he and the coaches must have been terribly disappointed about it.
The coaching staff, according to Agent, want these young players to understand that they have a grueling 5 games coming up against some legitimate teams: Perry Hall, Hereford, Parkville, Kenwood and Milford Mill. And winning won’t be easy.
He wants them to know that their 21-20 lost to Franklin two weeks was also a bummer and that there were mistakes that needed to be corrected … asap.
"I sacrifice my kids for y’all,” he says. “I gladly do it, but you can’t come out like this.”
The message probably did get across to this Westside of Baltimore County team. After all, that’s how he got to All-American honors at Gilman, All-ACC honors at Maryland, and became a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity: with dedication, perseverance and hard work.
He’s Got Jokes
And then there’s the comic who has toured up and down the East Coast and out to Cleveland – holding his own with some of the leaders in the industry – from Monique to Mike Epps to D.L. Hughley to Cheryl Underwood and Sinbad.
His routines are famous at “his house,” Baltimore’s Club 347. And yes, he can talk to folks from Cherry Hill to Park Heights - "both Israel and Palestine."
Longtime friend, attorney and booking agent Michael Mitchell, Jr. says of Agent, "The football players at Woodlawn are truly blessed to have one of my personal heroes as their coach.”
Mitchell, a member of Maryland’s famous black political family added, “Mark is the living embodiment of what we all as black men should strive to be - someone who has overcome many obstacles to achieve his educational, personal and professional goals and who is a positive influence on society. A lot of us talk about giving back to uplift young Black men but he is actually doing it. For more than 20 years that I've had the honor of knowing him, he has approached life with an intensity and humility for which we all should strive. It is said that a sports team is a reflection of their coach. Woodlawn's varsity football team is on a roll and the world can be their oyster.”
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