Now You're Talking With Marshall Ramsey

Bill Courtney | Ordinary People doing Extraordinary Things

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Coach Bill Courtney is a native Tennessean and an Ole Miss graduate. Though already a successful business owner, in 2003, Bill began volunteering at Memphis’ inner city Manassas High School in an effort to turn its underperforming football team around. In 2003, the team had 19 players with a dismal 4-95, 10-year record. In the 2008 & 2009 seasons, the team’s record improved to 18-2, with 75 players. The story inspired a Hollywood film—Undefeated—which won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. Now an accomplished author and public speaker, Bill travels the southern United States talking to audiences about the power of dreaming big and perseverance. He is also the host of the podcast 'An Army of Normal Folks,' which allows normal civilians that are doing excellent things for their communities to take center stage. Marshall Ramsey, a nationally recognized, Emmy award winning editorial cartoonist, shares his cartoons and travels the state as Mississippi Today's Editor-At-Large. He's