National Football Foundation

A player, coach, and athletics director, Herb Goins has had success at every level of football and expanded his love for the game by giving back to amateur football through the NFF Corrigan/Faircloth Chapter for 27 years.
 
After graduating from Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, Goins earned his bachelor’s degree while playing offensive guard at Duke from 1964-67. After graduating from Duke in 1969, he became the head football coach and athletic director at Northern Durham High School from 1971-1975. In five seasons, Goins led Northern Durham to four conference championships and four trips to the state playoffs while also receiving his master’s degree from the University of North Carolina in 1973. 
 
Goins then spent 16 years at T. Wingate Andrews High School in High Point, North Carolina, serving as the school’s athletic director, head football coach and head golf coach. On the gridiron, he led Andrews to 13 playoff appearances and 11 conference titles while bookending his time in High Point with state championships in 1976 and 1991. He was Conference Coach of the Year 13 times, and finished his 21-year head coaching career with 169 wins.
 
Retiring as a coach and focusing solely on athletics administration, Goins served as athletic director for High Point Public Schools from 1991-93 and coordinator of athletics for Durham Public Schools from 1993-96. Next, he became director of athletics for Guilford County Schools,  administering programs for 15 high schools and 20 middle schools from 1996 until he retired in 2008. Goins has been inducted into four halls of fame.
 
A member of the NFF Corrigan/Faircloth Chapter since its inception in 1991, Goins has served as a board member from 1991-1993 and 1996-present. He served as the chapter’s president from 2001-08 before taking on the role of treasurer, and he has served as both president and treasurer since 2017. Goins has helped the chapter award nearly $700,000 in scholarships over the past 27 years, including an impressive $36,000 to 35 high school scholar-athletes in 2018.
 
“I have been actively involved with the game of football since an early age as a high school and college player, high school coach and athletic administrator,” said Goins. “My entire working career involved association with football and those that played and coached the game. The Corrigan/Faircloth Chapter of the NFF allows me to maintain an ongoing active relationship with high school athletes and coaches through our scholarship program.”
 
Goins and his wife, Lindsay, live in High Point, N.C. Goins loves football at all levels and loves spending time with his three children and seven grandchildren.