Sure, great talent helps you win. Ironton has been blessed with its share of talent. But a truly great coach like Bob Lutz builds a program. He did this in Ironton by galvanizing a community around football and taking it to another level.
With someone like Lutz, you don't have parents second-guessing the coaches and creating problems; you attract the financial support needed to have a good staff of assistants; you implement a system that the players learn from the beginning of their midget football years; you build a team each year that improves throughout the course of a season; you make amazing halftime adjustments that turn potential losing games into winners; and, yes, you attract (note: I said attract, not recruit) a few kids from other school districts that want to play for an elite program. Success breeds success. It takes great organizational and interpersonal skills to build and run an elite football program. It is so much more than just coaching x's and o's and running great talent out onto a field.
You can hold an MBA from Harvard with a great product to sell. But if you do not have great organizational and interpersonal skills, you may still find yourself in bankruptcy.
