Relationship advice: This spring’s key player-coach partnerships (Dan Mullen)

Relationship advice: This spring’s key player-coach partnerships

Too often we see the glam instead of the guts. Position coaches never get enough credit, yet their specific work is more important than any game day decision made by a head coach.

Here are five key position coach-player relationships that must develop this spring:
1. Florida quarterbacks coach Scot Loeffler and quarterback Tim Tebow. Don’t underestimate the loss of Dan Mullen to Mississippi State. Mullen not only was Tebow’s position coach, he was his confidant and the mentor who — more than anyone — had Tebow prepared for every possible scenario on and off the field.

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1/22/09