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Former LB Tom Williams - Mick - 08-02-2026

Since Tom Williams left Stanford as an accomplished linebacker (Academic All Pac-12, back when there was such a thing; and HM-All Pac-12 his senior year), he's had a number of assistant coaching spots, including coaching stints at Stanford from 2002-2004, where he was associate head coach in 2004, and at San Jose State from 2005-2006. He coached at Jacksonville Jaguars from 2006-2008. He was Yale's head coach from 2009-2011, just the second black head coach in Ivy League history. He has a Master's in University Administration from Stanford.

He was announced as the head football coach at Bellarmine HS in San Jose earlier this year. He has a tough task in front of him. Bellarmine has won eight CCS championships since 1981 and went to the state football championship game four times between 2009 and 2022 but they went 2-8 in 2023, 0-10 in 2024 and 2-8 last season. 

Good luck coach...you're going to need it.

RE: Former LB Tom Williams - BobK - 08-02-2026

Mick you would know better than I would but I think in the 80s Bellermine was still housing students. Especially athletes they recruited from afar

RE: Former LB Tom Williams - Mick - 08-02-2026

(3 hours ago)BobK Wrote:  Mick you would know better than I would but I think in the 80s Bellermine was still housing students. Especially athletes they recruited from afar

I didn't go there -- my sons, cousins, father, uncles and father-in-law were students there -- but they boarded when I was in high school through 1980, and closed the program shortly after I left in the 1983 through 1985 time frame. Peaked at 240 boarding students.

I don't know about the athlete part. THe prominent athletes with whom I am familiar all came from this general area. I know BCP sought regional diversity. Their boarding students came from afar; e.g., SoCal students like Bing Crosby's kids went to high school there. It was mainly about geographic diversity from what I gather.  Bellarmine’s boarders included boys from throughout California—from agricultural communities in the Central Valley, smaller Northern California towns and Southern California—as well as Alaska, Hawaii and Nevada. By the 1970s, they hosted students from Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, MExico, Anchorage, Honolulu, Kowloon, Kobe, Quezon City and Cananea, Sonora. THey may have had a smattering of Iranian/Persian students after the shah fell, like my high school in Santa Cruz did.