RE-STARTING A COACHING CAREER

I had the good fortune of leading one of the most successful public school programs in the state of Virginia for 22 years. At Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, winning became synonymous with Bruins football. From 1997 to the 2006 season when I retired, our winning percentage was over .800. We won numerous District titles and had three undefeated regular seasons. It wasn’t accomplished with a lot of FBS prospects, either. We would get an occasional “big-time” recruit but it was mostly kids who played hard, believed in our system and did the things in the off-season that we asked them to do to get better. I retired after the 2006 season and thought that was it as far as coaching was concerned. I retired from our school system three years later. My wife boldly told me, “You need to find something to do or you will go crazy! You’re driving me crazy already.” What