81.   Being a football coach is close to being a politician, and Pepper has politics in his genes.

82.   Belichick is a football coach, not a doctor.

83.   Bear Bryant had his tower, where a venerable football coach could survey his legions at the University of Alabama.

84.   Because failure appears to have been a prime criterion for selecting a new football coach, Cal athletic director John Kasser really should have broadened his approach.

85.   Best man for the job, hands down, is Trey Carmichael, longtime assistant SID, who worked closely and successfully with football coach Dennis Franchione last year.

86.   Beverlee Schnellenberger, the wife of Florida Atlantic University football coach Howard Schnellenberger, chose only one candidate and realized later she could have picked another.

87.   Big-time college football coaches know their jobs are pressure cookers on the verge of exploding.

88.   Bill McCartney, former football coach at the University of Colorado, was the last to speak.

89.   Big-time college football coaches have talk shows, television shows, clinics and speaking engagements.

90.   Bill McCartney, a former football coach who founded Promise Keepers, acknowledged at a news conference Saturday that many Christian churches were divided along racial lines.