Your Take – “My Hail Mary Pass”

Let me start off by saying I can’t believe I’m writing something that football coaches will see. I’ve always had a fascination with the profession. If it’s not recruiting, it’s practice. If it’s not practice, it’s preparing game plans. And then there’s the “baby-sitting” aspect of playing father, spiritual guide, and disciplinarian for any number of problems that crop up. And oh yeah, by the way, there’s a game to be played with strategy, substitutions and clock management. And then, if you win, all the credit goes to your players. If you lose, it’s all on you. So here’s to you guys. It takes a special kind of guy to do what you do. And now back to our regularly scheduled program. Here’s what really annoys me about some coaches. They get all caught up in trying to outsmart the guy on the other sideline. So, as a result, all they do is screw things up. I