By Jay Morrison, Staff Writer Updated 3:26 PM Tuesday, May 31, 2011 FAIRFIELD TWP. — David Fulcher earned a promotion before his first day on the job. The former Cincinnati Bengals star had agreed last month to become the defensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Christian Schools football team, but then head coach Nate Johnson resigned a few weeks ago, prompting athletic director Steve Gillens to offer the position to Fulcher. “I was concerned a new head coach might want to bring in his own staff and get rid of the coaches who had been with these kids for so many years,” Fulcher said. “Steve talked to me about stepping in as the head coach, and it just seemed like a perfect fit.” Gillens said Fulcher will bring much more than his considerable football experience to the position. “His passion is to work with young men and try to build them into better people,” Gillens said. “He’s not here just for wins and losses. The biggest thing he’s here to do is shape the character of the guys. That’s what CCS is all about, build kids’ relationships with the Lord and teaching them how to be great young men.” Fulcher said he’s not ready to set goals as far as wins and losses, but is he prepared to predict one thing: “We will be physical.” “You’re talking to a guy who loved to hit people,” Fulcher said. “I give all the credit for the things I achieved to Dick LeBeau, my defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach. I would love to take a page out of his book to where my kids can play that aggressive on defense. “I want to put our kids in position to make plays by just reacting,” he continued. “We want to keep it as simple as we can. We don’t want them thinking too much out there. Just react.” As far as his coaching style, Fulcher said it won’t be anything like his playing persona. “I’m a former player, so I like to think I’ll be a players’ coach,” he said. “I’m not here to brow beat any kids. I want to do more teaching than coaching. “When a kid makes a mistake, I’ll ask him to explain what he did and then we’ll go fix it,” Fulcher added. “If they continue to make the same mistake, then we’ll have an issue.” Fulcher said he will be in the school every day, although his exact duties have yet to be finalized. The Cougars will return to the Miami Valley Conference this season after a two-year hiatus. They open at home Friday, Aug. 26, with a nonleague game against Cincinnati College Prep Academy.

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NFL analyst and former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Cris Collinsworth will coach the Highlands wide receivers this upcoming season, Highlands coach Dale Mueller confirmed via text this afternoon. Collinsworth reportedly announced his decision to help coach the Bluebirds on his Twitter account earlier today. Collinsworth is the lead analyst on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” Posted in: General

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At Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis’ golf tournament last week, Bucs coach Raheem Morris reportedly said he’s got no beef with Lewis for his critical comments about the Tampa Bay’s methods in signing receiver Dez Briscoe. “That’s business, this is about the community and the bigger picture,” Morris told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “It’s not about whether you have a disagreement on the field or whether I like him on game day. “I wanted to come in for Marvin and be supportive of him because he’s always been supportive of me.” Briscoe joined the Bucs’ practice squad after being offered a rookie minimum contract of around $325,000, substantially more than the typical practice squad salary of less than $100,000. That left Lewis fuming. “When you overpay a guy on the practice squad, you create a problem for teams,” Lewis said before the Bucs and Bengals met last season. “I don’t know that teams want to set that precedent and they did with Dez. “That’s not a great precedent for teams to set as we try to keep the NFL and doing the things we’re trying to do as a league. It’s still a league of 32 teams and things are put together a certain way.” Am I the only one who thought then — and now — that Lewis sounded bitter? Shouldn’t coaches want their organizations to go all out to land the best talent? The fact that Lewis works for the notoriously cheap Bengals might have a lot to do with his strong feelings on the matter. While the Bucs have been fielding the league’s lowest payroll for a while now, the Bengals have a much longer and richer history of being tight-fisted. Anyway, the point is not who said what. Instead, I thought it was worth pointing out that, in retrospect, Lewis’ comments were very telling. After watching Briscoe star for the Bucs in the team’s season finale at New Orleans (he had four receptions, including a 54-yard touchdown), it became clear why Lewis was so bothered by losing Briscoe. And for those of us who have seen Briscoe on the practice field, the Saints game wasn’t much of a surprise. Similarly, Lewis knew even before Briscoe took the field in a regular-season game that he was a potential gem. And his surprisingly strong comments offered a confirmation of this. Briscoe shined for the Bengals in training camp and during preseason games, and his upside was tantalizing. The Bengals had used a sixth-round pick on Briscoe last year but were loaded at receiver with a unit headlined by Terrell Owens and Chad Ocho Cinco. They ended up releasing Briscoe at final cuts and hoped to quietly sneak him onto their practice squad. But Bucs general manager Mark Dominik was clearly determined to prevent that, swooping in with a lucrative offer that Briscoe jumped at. The moral of this story is, if you don’t want to risk losing a player, don’t cut him. The NFL is about competition, the Bucs are trying to win games, and Dominik rightfully will not apologize for the bold move. Lewis is probably even more bothered by the loss of Briscoe now that his team faces the likely departure of Owens and Ocho Cinco. The team did spend its fourth overall draft pick on A.J. Green, but he’ll need help on the opposite side of the field from someone. Briscoe certainly would have been an attractive option. Of course, now that he’s lining up for the Bucs, Briscoe’s no longer available to the Bengals – like it or not.

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CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Jordan Shipley is married. He tied the knot last weekend to Nashville songwriter Sunny Helms. Cincinnati media report, the ceremony was held on a ranch owned by Helms’ dad overlooking the Brazos River. The honeymoon for the pair was delayed until this week since Shipley was at the second round of workouts organized by Jordan Palmer.

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