51. He was the first black assistant coach at Kentucky.
52. He was the first black coach in the Ohio Valley Conference.
53. His onetime savior and first pro coach, Don Nelson, was looking like a human dartboard again.
54. His first coach has been fired, the team is lackluster, and the fans are restless.
55. Herman Edwards became the first coach in Jets history to take the franchise to the playoffs in his first season.
56. His choice of Bruce Coslet as the first head coach under his regime came after several other choices turned the Jets down.
57. His first NBA coach, Larry Brown, wanted to make him Bill Russell, not Wilt Chamberlain.
58. I tell people I was the first coach.
59. I still have feelings for him because he drafted me and he was my first coach.
60. In searching for his first head coach, the elder Smith interviewed Packers great Vince Lombardi and Browns legend Paul Brown.