Note to self: Scrap this auditing shit and get into coaching.
Yeah. I feel like a fool. I did it for a couple of years. I didn't know a high school coach could climb that high. I was starving then. Might have stuck with it if I'd known.
That in the books? I don't think I had a football coaching mind. I'd try to train myself to just watch what my guys were doing and how the people they were working against reacted. But time and time again I'd end up watching the ball.
Remember a playoff game the first year I coached. I had DBs and WRs. We'd just broken a long touchdown run on a play action. Standard protocol was the QB to run a boot after the handoff to draw a safety. So we score. Did the high fiving, headbutted a helmet (I was Muschamp before Muschamp was cool), and got the PAT team out on the field. Head coach turns to me and says "did their DBs turn their hips or stay in backpedal when Phil ran out the bootleg?" No clue. So I lied. He didn't care about THAT score, he was already setting up what we'd do the next time. I got that, but I never saw the field like some of the people I worked with did. Wanted to, but just didn't.
I was better at coaching QBs. I understood the mechanics, saw the flow, knew the checkdowns and reads. I don't now, but THAT I could see.