Your Take – Today’s Football Coach

by Mike Lopresti
National Columnist for Gannett and USA Today
American Football Monthly October 2011 Issue Online

You are a college football coach.

Some days, you might as well be a flag waving in the wind, for all the control you possess over your fate. You have season plans, practice plans, game plans. You have a system and a strategy, tested both with time and toil. Every hope and dream are in place.

But then the tailback goes down with a torn ACL, and your world changes. The phone rings in the middle of the night, and your world changes. One of your key players acts like the teena...Login to Read More

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