Coach Stewart has been a football coach for 27 years, 16 as a head coach, and Stewart has been to 2 Section Finals in California and 2 District Finals in Pennsylvania.
He took FOUR losing programs to the playoffs in two different states, without ever having a scholarship athlete!!
McFarland, a school of 600 students with no weight room, had lost 24 games in a row. Stewart served as offensive coordinator and they went 8-2 with only 3rd playoff berth in 75-yr school history
Stewart left McFarland for 3 years and they went 3-26 during his absence. He returned as head coach to make the playoffs in Year 2. (the Disney movie, “McFarland”, starring Kevin Costner is the same town and school)
Broke 0-27 losing streak at Corcoran, a school with 900 students, winning an undefeated league title in Year 2;
Porterville, a large of 2,000 students, won 40 games in 5 years, including back-to-back section runner-ups at a that had won 8 games in the 5 years prior to his arrival, including the first playoff victory in the school’s 110-year history.
Pennsylvania. Stewart went to a different state to coach a team that had gone 3-7, 2-8, and 4-6. The school had only won 9 games twice: 1982 and 2009. Stewart’s teams have went 9-2, 12-1, and 11-2, winning a District title and being District runnerups. Led the entire state in total offense.