Attention all coaches: Think conditions are tough where you are? Try taking a group of talented, but often-immature, teenagers and transforming them into not only Division-I football players, but also into NCAA-caliber students. Oh by the way, you have only two years to do it. Seems like an impossible mission – for the average coach. Luckily for 24 Georgia Military Bulldogs, who, in the last three years, have made the leap from the junior college located in Milledgeville, Ga., to an NCAA Division-I program, Bert Williams is not an average coach. Bert Williams is an old-school disciplinarian and a difference-maker on and off the field. “I love the feeling of being able to make a difference in a kid’s life while he’s here,” said Williams, who is in his fourth season as head coach at Georgia Military. “Most of the players that come here didn’t have another option. Whether
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