Our Story
In the Mid 90s
After a glorious college football career with Virginia Tech and a shortened NFL career with Miami, when Coach Bo launched a health and wellness initiative called “Bo ‘Knows’ Football Camps” in Bennettsville, SC, he had one goal in mind: to make football accessible for all children—no matter the socioeconomic status, age, gender, or size. And this is where the idea of running affordable football camps, flag football leagues, and training athletes began.
During the Early 2000s
Coach Bo shifted most of his focus to coaching middle and high school football, helping build strong athletic programs and outstanding athletes, in which many went on to play football on college and the NFL levels. More importantly, all of them became productive citizens in the communities where they resided. Starting in 2009 moving forward, former players and athletes under Coach Bo’s reign began returning home to their nearby communities in South and North Carolina to reciprocate the “same love” that Coach Bo had once given them when they were young kids as evidenced by offering affordable and sometimes free flag leagues, football camps, and training athletes.
Today
“Bo Knows Football” has evolved into Optimus Prime Sports. With 30 years of coaching/training experience and over 2,800 athletes participating in training, flag leagues and football camps, Optimus Prime Sports continues to advance using the latest training techniques and programs to help all athletes try to achieve their goals to play sports in college and maybe one day professionally. Not only does our program offer an outlet for fun off-season competition but it is a place for people in the community to come together and help teach young boys and girls how to become better young men and women.