It doesn’t take an expert to see how the game of football has evolved over the past few decades. Coaches like Paul “Bear” Bryant and Vince Lombardi could focus more on the X’s and O’s than the multitude of hurdles that face today’s modern coaches. Head coaches today more closely resemble Fortune 500 chief executive officers than they do their coaching counterparts back in the 20th century. Coaches today are teachers, parents, fundraisers, psychologists, strategists, politicians and role models all rolled into one. Perhaps the best example of this new breed of coach is Fisher DeBerry, a man who was actually forged in the old-school coaching fire. “I recently told one of my younger coaches who has a desire to become a head coach that he’d never have as much fun being a head coach as he was having as an assistant right now,” said the United States Air Force Academy head
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