Coaching Players Off the Field

As a football coach at a college university there should be two objectives, win football games and mold good men. The Liberty Mutual College Coach of the Year Award is meant to be awarded to a coach that does both extraordinarily. In my first post about the award I broke down coaching football into Integrity, Sportsmanship, Responsibility and Excellence. In my last post I talked how much responsibility a coach has to his community. In this post I will break down the current leaders and eliminate some who have not shown this year that they are both excellent on and off the field. First let's take a look at the current candidates from 1 to 15.Paul Johnson (Ga Tech), Mark Richt (Georgia), Nick Saban (Alabama), Bronco Mendenhall (BYU), Joe Paterno (Penn St.), Mark Dantonio (Michigan St.), Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern), Randy Shannon (Miami), Les Miles (LSU), Bob Stoops (Oklahoma), Skip Holtz (ECU), Brady Hoke (Ball State), Jim Tressel (OSU), David Cutcliffe (Duke), Urban Meyer (Flo...