EUGENE -- It was late December in 2006 and Willie Taggart, 30 years old, hadn't even spent a single day in his new job coaching Stanford's running backs.
That didn't stop Taggart from thinking years down the road.
"You have to have a plan for things," he told his hometown Florida newspaper, shortly after arriving in California. "I have a plan to be a head football coach, and it's falling into place."
Yet in those early days at Stanford under Jim Harbaugh, such big-picture dreams were superseded by the hundreds of little tasks that come with taking over a college football program.