"Whatever you describe as brotherhood, this is more than you can imagine. Like I said, I graduated from here, and I got the majority of the people who I played with to come back and coach with me. I feel like that's the reason why I had a successful season this year, because the people that went through the hallways with me and played with me in previous years knew what it took for these kids to win and the outcome that it took for us," Brockington said.
Off the field, Brockington has made an impact in his community as a role model, giving his time to the youth. He leads a youth football team in his spare time and involves his high school players in mentoring and assisting with the younger athletes. The Pioneers' coach does a lot of work mixing the youth football players with his high school team as he wants to keep them around the game and show them where they could end up playing football one day. He has let them run out of the tunnel with the high school team and has his own players help hold the chains at the little league games.
"I like to show them that there's different ways that they can be role models and that other people look up to them. I try to bring a big brother situation to my little league team and tell them the kids at the high school level are going through the same stuff they're going through sometimes," Brockington said. "The more football the kids see, the better they'll be and the more people they see having fun around the game, the more they'll see their future progress as their career goes on."
Brockington's example will continue in the halls of his alma mater as he hopes to maintain the success of the school and its football program going forward.
In addition to the award for Coach Brockington, Frankford High School will receive a $1,500 equipment voucher from the Eagles. Brockington will receive a $1,000 personal award on behalf of the NFL.
"The resources and the support that they got for me, man, for the program, like I said, today isn't for me. It's for the kids and they can use that going into the future, going into the offseason. All the equipment that they gave us and all the research that they helped me out with, we're using that as a positive reinforcement to help out for the future," the Frankford coach said.

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