Bill Walsh Will Never Truly Die

Bill Walsh is dead. But yet he keeps coaching. He's the head coach in Seattle, the offensive coordinator in Philadelphia. He's several position coaches around the NFL. He's still coaching at the college and university level. He may never stop coaching, at this rate. Walsh, the Hall of Fame football coach, died Monday morning after a long battle with leukemia, with which he was diagnosed in 2004. He was 75. Walsh died but he didn't vanish from the earth. Not as long as guys like Mike Holmgren is in Seattle, Marty Mornhinweg is in Philadelphia, and others too numerous to mention are teaching the Bill Walsh offense on sandlot fields, at small colleges, and on the campuses of big-time universities across the country. They call it the West Coast offense, and it's sort of like another California commodity, tofu; it can either taste really good or really BAD, depending on who the cook is, and what other ingredients he's using. Steve Mariucci tried his...