Before the 1990s, new football coaches typically made peace with athletic trainers from previous staffs, and many trainers survived multiple coaching changes. (chronicle.com)
There is Ike Jefferson, the black son of the high school's new football coach who is wary of getting close to whites in a time of racial tension; the orphaned siblings Niles and Starla Whitehead, assigned to Leo's charge as they are begrudgingly integrated into the local high school; the beautiful Molly Huger, her entitled boyfriend Chad Rutledge and Chad's tomboy sister, Fraser — members of the blue - blood Charleston elite, who seem almost untouchable to someone like Leo. (bookpage.com)
John Jardine, the new football coach at Wisconsin, said last week, «I feel it's necessary to have a black coach on the staff, not just a counselor or an adviser. (si.com)