Early Years
Adams attended the Dexter School in Brookline, Massachusetts, of which John F. Kennedy is also an alumnus. Given his knowledge of football for his age, Adams was asked to coach the school's intramural football team as an eighth grader.
He later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for high school. While there, he had read Football Scouting Methods written by Steve Belichick, who was then a football scout for the United States Naval Academy. In 1970, Steve Belichick's son Bill enrolled at Phillips Academy for a post-graduate year after graduating from Annapolis High School. Adams, a senior, recognized Belichick's name and the two quickly became friends. At one point, they snuck into a Boston College football practice together to practice scouting.
Beginning in 1971, Adams attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. As a freshman, Adams sought a student assistant position for the Wildcats' football team and secured it after impressing an assistant coach with a report on a football formation. He would serve as a scout for Northwestern until his graduation in 1975 with a degree in education.
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