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To me, the differentiating quality in the best coaches is management ability. The top coaches could be the CEO of any company and be successful. Its some combination of leadership, charisma, process management, motivation, hiring, and accountability that makes the perfect head football coach at the college level. Building a great organization is the key.

That said, I don't know if that same thing applies at our level. At the highest level, you can hire all the highly competent coaches and behind the scenes staff that you need and then just provide the leadership, structure, and processes for them to work within. At our level maybe the head coach needs to be able to actually coach and scheme more than at the highest levels since money and stature does not allow the head coach to just go out and cherry pick all of the needs on his staff.