Milligan

talking about Roosevelt, Roosevelt. That’s fine and dandy, but I’m trying to get the kids to actually learn to earn the right to win and to be Norristown 2.0 — be a bigger and better Norristown than what we were and start setting new traditions, new standards and new history up at the new stadium. That’s our new home.”

Helping him create this environment will be his defensive coordinator Rodchine Lusane.

“We’re very good friends,” Milligan said. “We work in the school district, we’re alumni and we used to coach here. We said this might be a chance for us to go back and run the program a little differently and bring back some Norristown pride.”

After a successful playing career at Norristown that included a 9-1 season, Milligan was a four-year starting receiver at Fairfield and played professionally for one year in the Arena Football League for the Dayton Skyhawks and one year in Sweden.

Milligan coached receivers and defensive backs at a number of different places, including Mount Ida College, Fairfield, Norristown Area High School under EJ Smith and Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.

On the field, Milligan wants to have a well-conditioned team and won’t force his players to play any certain style.

“You’ll find out that we will be in shape,” he said. “That’s the number one rule — we’ll make sure that we always out-work our opponent. As far as smash mouth or run-and-shoot — if I don’t have the pieces to be a run-and-shoot or the pieces to be a smash mouth team, then there is no use in actually being that. I