I was taking my puppy for a walk in the woods and my son called on the phone.
“Coach (Jim) Margraff died this morning,” Nick said.
I was stunned.
Margraff, the head football coach at Johns Hopkins, was just 58, and he had just finished the greatest season in school history.
Maybe, you don’t follow small college football. Maybe, you have never heard of this man, who was named the 2018 D3football.com National Coach of the Year. But he represented something important. Class and dignity. Honor and humility. Poise and perspective.
And we can learn something important from how he coached.