Rey Hernandez

Rey Hernandez coached high school football for more than 30 years in California before recently retiring. Hernandez also received a Master's degree from San Diego State University and a law degree from JD Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

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• COVID-19 and pre-participation physical evaluations for high school athletes

  Monday, July 06, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic has limited the public’s access to medical care and many healthcare providers are seeing patients only for acute illness and other urgent health issues. All states and the District of Columbia require that student-athletes obtain a yearly pre-participation physical evaluation (PPE) in order to participate in sports during the school year. The specific requirements can vary from state to state. Some states require a PPE on an annual basis, and in others the required time interval can range to as many as every three years.

• Teaching and coaching in a multigenerational setting

  Wednesday, April 03, 2019

  I retired from coaching in 2012 after 36 years on the sideline coaching high school football, and in 2017, I retired from teaching. In order to stay busy, I decided to do some substitute teaching and agreed to join the varsity coaching staff at a local high school. During my time away from football, I saw many changes in the high school game. Some of these changes came in the form of administrative directives and legislative mandates that were enacted in response to growing safety concerns related to on-field concussions. Those changes were accompanied by a decrease in the number of students participating in football.

• How unions would dramatically alter the player-coach relationship

  Monday, April 07, 2014

  ​On March 24, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for Region 13 held that student-athletes receiving scholarships at Northwestern University are "employees" under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act. The decision in this case applies only to private institutions such as Northwestern University that fall under the jurisdiction of the NLRB, but it is probably only a matter of time before public universities will have to address similar issues under the laws of their jurisdiction and their respective public employment relations board.

• NCAA 10-second substitution rule: Looking forward

  Monday, March 31, 2014

  ​After receiving feedback from head coaches and the medical community, the NCAA recently decided to table the controversial proposed 10-second substitution rule. In pulling the proposal, the NCAA was spared from having to make a final determination about whether the player safety concerns that were raised were compelling enough to adopt a rule that would operate to slow down the fast-tempo offenses that have become more and more popular in recent years.

• Gemba walk: How to stay in touch with your players

  Wednesday, February 19, 2014

  ​When I first started teaching in the 1970s, we had a principal at our high school who would visit the physical education department almost daily. I didn't know it then but the principal was "going to the gemba."

• College football recruiting: Assessing 4 types of intelligence

  Thursday, October 10, 2013

  ​I was speaking a few years ago to a good friend who was coaching at a major Division I FBS school, and we were discussing the college recruiting process. I asked him how perennial powers like the program in which he was coaching could have a year when these programs failed to compete at expected levels and finish with a losing record.