Letter From The Publisher

Moving up the Coaching Ladder  Part of the fun of being with an organization that has chronicled the successes of football coaches for over 15 years is following the careers of coaches that we featured in AFM years ago. It’s great to see a coach like Gary Patterson, for example, who we put on our “Hot List” of up-and-coming coaches in 2004, achieve such great success at TCU and become AFM’s FBS Coach of the Year in 2011.     While we’ve worked with hundreds of coaches over the years, Bill Blankenship’s story is different, and that’s why it’s so compelling. AFM profiled Blankenship in our June 2003 issue (pictured) after he had won the first of what would be three Oklahoma 6A state championships at Tulsa’s Union High School. The former QB at the University of Tulsa would achieve a 154-26 record at Union and became widely recognized as one of the top