The ones with staying power, those long time, successful college football coaches who find ways to build creativity and growth in their modest programs, are always the ones with an extra awareness of the world around them.
These coaches with jobs in places that often lack national championship pedigrees, that don’t have the drawing power of an Alabama, Ohio State or USC, those coaches seem to have a sixth sense for noticing and incorporating the right building blocks at just the right time.
It might seem a bit premature, but the hunch here is that Nick Rolovich, closing in on the start of his second year at the University of Hawaii, is one of those coaches.