Letter From the Guest Editor<br>Hot Coaches

Hot or not, it’s how you play the game. Or, in the vernacular of coaching, it is how you coach the game. The obvious definition of ‘hot’ is a coach that is being looked at and considered for a major coaching position, or at least is on a short list. In other words, it means that as a coach you have bloomed where you were planted, and someone inside or outside the profession has determined you do your job with excellence, integrity, and confidence. For every so-called hot coach there are hundreds just as good, but have not been at the right place at the right time. In my position as executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, I do hundreds of interviews a year on every issue that affects our game and our profession. The emphasis by the writer or the interviewer is always focused on Division I-A. The media in general think football, by and large, is Division