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How Mike Sherman Went from Coaching Favre to Coaching an 0-8 High School Team

For decades, Mike Sherman's world was about Super Bowls and super-sized TV contracts, super-fancy offices and super-expensive stadium renovations, super-rich boosters and super-big egos.

He was head coach and general manager of the Packers and had Hall of Famer Brett Favre as his quarterback. He was head coach at Texas A&M and had top-10 draft pick Ryan Tannehill as his quarterback.

For decades, Sherman was the big time.

And now?

Now, his quarterback (and defensive back) is 155-pound Travis Van Vleck, who will probably go on to greatness someday, but not in football.

Now, Sherman says, "It's a little noisy, holding meetings on a school bus on the way to games.