Erik Smithman knows all about the dedication Rob Davis had to the Barnegat High School football program.

“I’m his neighbor, so sometimes I’d see him leave at 5:30 a.m., probably to go to the fieldhouse to watch film or something like that,” said Smithman, a running back and defensive back for the Bengals’ first varsity squad in 2006. “I’d get in at 7 p.m. and he still hadn’t come home yet, probably because he was still in the fieldhouse doing something in preparation for the next game.