CONCORD MONITOR

By ABBY DISALVO

Kevin Kelly's father taught high school biology, and his mother taught second grade. The New England College football coach likes to tell people he went into the family business. 

"Coaching is teaching," he explains with a smile.

Kelly lectures to his players from an office that does little to reveal his decades of experience. The grey laptop on his meticulously-organized wooden desk bears a single NEC sticker. A poster propped against the back wall captures him in his playing days at Springfield College. A black-and-white photo shows his father, coaching from high school sidelines. 

The walls hold few tributes to his 44 seasons of past coaching, but Kelly didn't take the job at NEC to reminisce on the dozen different college whistles he has worn. The 65-year-old came to Henniker to do something new: build a football program entirely from scratch.

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