John Gonzales
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CONFIDENCE IS EVERYTHING | Western Colorado University Defensive Backs Coach/RC | God Built | D.O.G.G.S. | Joshua 1:9 | Recruiting Orange County and Las Vegas
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In California this week and Vegas next week looking for future Mountaineers! #MountUp @MountaineerFB
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It was a privilege to coach this young man the past 3 seasons and see him turn dreams into reality and make the 53 man roster for The Raiders! Proud of you bro! This is just the beginning! Still more work to do! 🔒🐕 @JayVerse27
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New job, great coaches, great players, and great facilities. Real hyped to be here at Missouri Western State University and get to work 🔒
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Denver Metro Area📍. 64% of our roster is made up of players from Colorado. Which is the second most of ALL colleges in the state. Numbers don’t lie and the record don’t lie! . Our @MountaineerFB staff will be recruiting the entire state of CO all week! See y’all soon! #MountUp.
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First snow practice in Gunni you have to penguin slide…coaches included 😂🐧 football is fun!!! #MountUp
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I’ll be in SoCal all week looking for future @MountaineerFB players! . Fill out our recruiting questionnaire:. #MountUp #ThinAirCrew
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I am extremely grateful to coach this group, be a part of this defense, and this TEAM! The battles, struggles, and the journey were the best parts of this season. I couldn’t ask for a better group of seniors. There is no greater honor than being a leader of men. My DOGGS 🔒
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Congrats to my guy @JayVerse27 !!! The Raiders signed themselves a ball player and an even better human being! It was fun to watch you make dreams come to reality through hard work! It was a privilege to coach you the past 3 years! Proud of you 2-7!!!🔒 #DOGGS #RaiderNation
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We play home games in the highest collegiate stadium in the world at 7,771’ so I figured what’s a few more 🤷🏽♂️🔒🏔 #ThinAirCrew @MountaineerFB
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🚨🚨Attention Recruits🚨🚨. Coach @tauer34 will be at the UNC Mega Camp this Friday, June 23rd! Please let your position coach know if you’ll be there! . DC/LBs: @tauer34 .DL/K/P/LS: @CoachJVG .DBs: @JGonzo_24 . OC/QBs/RBs: @joemclain13 .OL/TE: @Coach_Haddan_60 .WRs: @CoachV_Moon
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I’ll be in Las Vegas all week looking for 2025 future Mountaineers! 🎰🎰🎰 #MountUp . Fill out our questionnaire:.
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Gotta get in that annual W Mountain climb with the boys before the season starts!!!#MountUp @tauer34 @joemclain13 @Dstirg30
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I’m not a social rights activist or a politician. I’m a coach and a teacher. But to all my players, I’m praying for all of you and I love all of you. What happened to George Floyd and other countless black men makes my heart hurt. Systemic racism is real in America.
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This one was for our seniors!!! Darrious and Tim were all a coach could ask for. The way they lead on and off the field made my job easy. Thank you for everything you have done for the program. It was an honor to coach you this season. I love you and I’m proud of you both! 🔒🐕
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The 2019 Missouri Western State University Cornerbacks 🔒 These are my guys right here!! Real blessed to Coach this group! @tariq314_ @JayVerse27 @jay2williamson @DashaunPowell12 @trey_vaval_ @Dstirg30 @TheeJustinMason
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🚨Attention 2025 Recruits🚨. Instead of standing around watching practice for two hours at a normal junior day we decided to host a camp so you can be SEEN and EARN an offer! Spring game following!. Gunnison, Colorado Saturday April 20th! Check in at noon.
🚨Attention 2025 recruits🚨. We will be hosting a prospect camp/junior day on Saturday April 20th! 🏔️🏈. Be SEEN and workout for our staff! This is a great opportunity to EARN an offer! . Following the camp will be our spring game! . Register here: .
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Blessed to have coached these dudes the past two years and awesome to see them doing great things at the next level! Proud of my doggs ✊🏼 #TK
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One full year in Missouri today! It’s been a great year thanks to these guys. I found some peace in my purpose out here. Blessings on the journey. #TK
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Degrees 🎓 and rings 💍 . Congrats to these young men on this milestone! This is just the beginning of the great things they all will achieve in their lives! . Best part is, we’re all back in the fall 👀🔒 #GriffUp 🦁🦅
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Real excited to announce I’ve accepted a job as the GA cornerbacks coach at Missouri Western State University! Great staff, players, and facilities. Blessed for the opportunity and…
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🚨🚨 Attention recruits 🚨🚨 . I’ll be at the Utah Tech mega camp this Saturday, June 17th in St. George! Hoping to find some future Mountaineers 🏔️. If you’re going to be there, shoot me a DM! See you on Saturday! @MountaineerFB
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Transfers and '26s, if you haven't already, click on the link and get our questionnaire submitted so our staff can evaluate your film! #ThinAirCrew.
🚨All Recruits🚨. The first step in the recruiting process for our program is for you to fill out our questionnaire. Submit that so our staff can evaluate your film!! . Here’s the link below:. #ThinAirCrew #MountUp
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S/O @CoachBono_ for all the graphics/videos he’s made for signing day this year! Dude slept maybe 4 hours the past 2 days getting all 57 players’ stuff ready! Offer, committed, or any graphic in between, it’s a 1 man show making all our graphics! Nobody does it better 💯🐐.
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Congrats to @JayVerse27 on that 1st team All-Conference award! Thank you for working hard every day, buying in, leading, and believing in this team and me! Proud of you 2-7! We still got business to finish and plenty of work to do! Can’t wait to keep putting that work in! #TK
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S/O my senior on another All-Conference year! It’s been an honor to coach you the past 3 seasons. Thank you for showing up every day ready to work! You helped me learn and grow as a coach. Your leadership helped make our CB room a special place. Love you 2-7!!! 🔒 #DOGGS
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No surprise there for 1 and 2! It’s like I know those guys or somethin 🤝🔒 Two guys that hard work has been paying for them! Proud of y’all! Keep earning it! @ChildishGaines @Dstirg30
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Always great to be able to keep learning and working on your craft. Took a lot of notes today 🔒 📝Appreciate the insight @I_Am_OD3 and thanks for having me out today @coach_askew ! #GriffUp 🦁🦅
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Start of team camp #3 today!!! 70 and sunny ☀️ the past week with the best view in the country! 🏔️🔥 #MountUp @MountaineerFB
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Just wait until the $25 million renovation to the stadium is finished this August 👀👀👀 ELITE views and ELITE facilities 🤷🏽♂️ #MTFU.
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🏔️🏔️🏔️ Recruits❗️❗️❗️Come meet our staff and watch the Mountaineers practice on one of our junior days! . We will be hosting our elite camp in July as well! Compete at the highest collegiate football stadium in the country at 7,723’ 🏔️🏔️🏔️. Way way way waaaay up *Big Sean voice*
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Day 4 in Vegas! Still on the hunt for future Mountaineers! @MountaineerFB . Vegas recruits and all 2026s, the first step in the recruiting process is for you to fill out our questionnaire. If you haven’t, click on the link below:.
Our defensive backs coach, John Gonzales, is in Las Vegas, Nevada this week looking for future Mountaineers ‼️ .@JGonzo_24 . #MountUp #ThinAirCrew
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“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” . Book club pt. 5 with the DOGGS!!🔒 It was a lot of fun to read The Alchemist with the DBs the past month. Great conversations were had. Proud of these guys. Take care of the man and the rest will flourish! #MountUp
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I love these dudes man!!! Great human beings and great football players! I couldn’t ask for a better group. We got something special going on in our Cornerback room! Can’t wait to get back to work with my doggs 🔒#TK
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1-0 that’s all that matters!!.
@MountaineerFB fought until the end and escaped with a 42-34 overtime victory improving to 3-0 in RMAC conference play. #ThinAirCrew #ExcellenceElevated #7723ft
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Same Mountaineer Personality but added the all black unis!! 🔥⚫️🔴⚪️ #MountUp.
Tough, hard nosed, aggressive, fundamental football with fanatical effort for as long as it takes to WIN! AND LEAVE NO DOUBT! ⚫️⚪️🔴 #BackInBlack #MountUp #ThinAirCrew
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Mom and Dad watched the DOGGS ball 🔒 and the Griffs 🦁🦅 ring the 🔔
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Always great to have a @DonnellColbert5 sighting!!! See you in July 👀👀🔒🔒. We are dead set on finding ELITE talent in Vegas (like @DonnellColbert5 and the handful of Vegas guys already on our roster) and getting them out to Western Colorado! . 🎰 ➡️ 🏔️. #MountUp
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I finally made it to church in St. Joe this morning and was able to listen to the Word. I was reflecting on my time here and it had me feeling incredibly grateful to be around such great people, in a great place, doing what I love. THANK YOU GOD.
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t h e . c l i m b . b a c k 🔒. We got better this spring 🔺.#DOGGS #MountUp . @ChildishGaines @TimMullin7 @_W3sss @BryceLucas12 @ajarterburn99 @shope_cy @darkmagicmike @tony_cass4
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70 minute flight from DIA to KC to a place like this! Kansas City Chiefs hold training camp on our campus. Going into year 2 of recruiting my home state of Colorado! Already brought more CO out to Missouri with us and always looking for more! Come thru 🤷🏽♂️👀🦁🦅 #GriffUp
The Buffs currently have zero in-state commits for their 2022 class: “I’ve gotten more love from colleges that are halfway around the country than I have in my own state”
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Still recruiting the home state without a doubt!!! #GriffUp.
A lot of CFB coaches tweeting about how they will still recruit colorado & I love it. If NCAA doesn’t move signing day, how many spots are you guys committing to holding for CO kids until they play their senior season after signing day?.
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Real proud of my dogg @JayVerse27 coming up big for our defense this past weekend and earning Co-Defensive MVP honors. Handling business one play at a time! #WebbIsland #Clamps #TK
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Gotta say what up to the whole squad before we get to work 🤝😂.
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It was great to watch some ball players run around today in Boulder! Starting off camp szn right with the Buffs! 🤝🔒 #MountUp
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We had a great time stopping by to make some crabs 🦀 for the Crab Feed with the 1st grade classes at Gunnison Elementary! @MountaineerFB #MountUp
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On top of the world at 7,723’ spring ballin!!! 🏔️🏔️🏔️.
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Let the Colorado kids play 💯 @CHSAANow @RhondaCHSAA.
Just my opinion as a long time High school coach in Colorado. We need to be united and fight for sr football players.More opportunity in the playoffs! We should be fighting for kids by getting ad’s & coaches to unify. We shouldn’t settle for anything less! @CHSAANow @RhondaCHSAA.
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#TeamCrimson 🔴.
Our Captains are in the midst of drafting teams for the 2025 Crimson & Slate Spring Game… Come to Mountaineer Bowl on Saturday April 19 at 6pm to see who dominates and earns bragging rights ‼️🏈 . #MountUp #ThinAirCrew
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For all the guys who are reaching out…The 1st step in the recruiting process for our program is for you to fill out our questionnaire. Whether I meet you or not tomorrow, your area coach and/or position coach WILL evaluate you if that is filled out!. ⬇️.
Coach @JGonzo_24 will be attending the @UNC_BearsFB ‘s Mega Camp tomorrow (June 21st) If you will be up at camp reach out to Coach Gonzales! We are looking forward to finding future Mountaineers! #MountUp
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It is extremely humbling every signing day when players and their families choose to join our team. The trust and belief they show with that commitment means the world. I’m grateful for the opportunity to serve this special group of players! #MountUp.
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Handled business as Live United Bowl Champs 💍🏆 and now headed to Colorado as we speak to go find some future Griffs!!! #GriffUp @Coach5000Watts.
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Game day!!! 🔒.
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One of the most crucial concepts that can be conveyed in an organization is a LOVE for the HARD BATTLE, and the test it provides against a worthy opponent. The hard struggle is to be welcomed, never feared.
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Strive to be the best versions of themselves in order to make a better life for them and their families. The world is a dark place but it’s up to us to be the light. I’m praying for my players, their families, and all people effected by racism and prejudice. Be the light.
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I just laughed so hard good gosh 😂😂😂 appreciate y’all 😂💀.
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They got it right! Guy is a ball player! #Respect.
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Always great to see two CO 🐐s! Played for Coach Looney and Ortega, coached with them, and now talking about some 2021 ballers! Life comes full circle! #GriffUp @VistaGridiron @ortegafootball
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If you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready! 🔒👀 #GriffUp 🦅🦁.
BREAKING: Sources say multiple MIAA schools are finalizing plans that would pave the way to football this fall. Missouri Western is said to be spearheading the charge, and sources are confident "football will be played at Missouri Western this fall.".
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The box state’s finest 🫡 Playmaker and ball hawk! Always great to have one of CO’s best right where he belongs…in the Gunni Valley! Let’s work 🤝🔒.
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