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Article: A Low Graduation Rate to NFL; For High School Coaches, Jump to the Pro Ranks is Rare
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- The Washington Post
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- August 24, 2009
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Steve Bush sat in the bleachers with the rest of the coaching
staff in January 2008 as his football team walked out under a blue
and gold balloon archway into the West Genesee High School gym in
Camillus, N.Y. The school was celebrating the achievements of its
fall sports teams.
It was Bush's third season with the upstate New York school, his
13th year coaching high schools, and his team had just finished an
11-2 campaign that included West Genesee's first New York state AA
championship. "It was a nice little event," Bush recalled.
A few hours later, Bush received a phone call from a friend: Tony
Sparano. Bush had coached with Sparano at the University of New
Haven and Boston University in ...