Coach was a great choice

Football season is months away.
Still, football at every level is in the sports spotlight.
Tim Millspaugh was hired Monday as Jay County High’s School’s next football coach. The name of the new college football playoff system and the location of the first championship game were announced Wednesday. And the NFL Draft begins with the first round tonight, and continues Friday and Saturday.
Every question this month was related to football. Here are the answers.
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Which NFL franchise has had the most overall No. 1 draft picks?
—Nathan Miller,
Wanamaker

No franchise has had more No. 1 overall picks than the Colts, who have led off the draft seven times since its inception in 1936.
The first of those top selections came in 1955, when the Colts were in Baltimore.
The team selected Oregon quarterback George Shaw, who played eight NFL seasons with the Colts, Giants, Vikings and Broncos.
The most recent No. 1 pick, as any Colts fan should know, was Andrew Luck last year.
Four of the top selections have come since the franchise moved to Indianapolis, with quarterbacks Jeff George (1990) and Peyton Manning (1998) and defensive tackle Steve Emtman (1992) joining Luck. The other No. 1 picks from the Baltimore era were quarterback John Elway (1983), who had no interest in playing for the franchise and was traded to Denver, and defensive end Bubba Smith (1967).
The Rams rank second with six No. 1 overall picks, five of which came when the team was located in Los Angeles and the other when it was in Cleveland.
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What do you think about the new college football playoff system?
—Aaron Loy, Portland

The thoughtfully-named College Football Playoff is a step in the right direction.
As sports columnists have been writing over and over again since the inception of the Bowl Championship Series, any playoff is better than letting computers and polls pick two teams to play in a title game. I would have preferred an eight-team bracket to the CFP’s four, but any kind of playoff is a positive development.
We still have one more year of the BCS before the College Football Playoff goes into effect for the 2014 regular season. The semifinal games will rotate between six bowls, with the Rose and Sugar bowls to be the first hosts on Jan. 1, 2015. The first championship game will be held Jan. 12 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
This will be a great change for college football and its fans, and will prove that a playoff can coexist, and even thrive, in conjunction with the traditional bowl system.
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What do you think of the hiring of Tim Millspaugh as Jay County’s next football coach and what are his plans for the team?
—Jon Hawn, Muncie

I joked with Millspaugh about trying to talk the Jay Schools administration out of recommending him for the job. But really, I believe this was a great hire. And if the reaction on The Commercial Review’s Facebook page is any indication, so do the JCHS players and fans.
Millspaugh is a believer in the Wing-T offense the Patriots began using last season. He feels the deception involved in that system helped the team. Jay County ran for more than 400 yards in a game three times — wins over Blackford and Winchester and a 42-40 tournament loss to eventual sectional champion Bishop Dwenger.
But Xs and Os aside, the characteristic I’ve appreciated most about Millspaugh throughout his tenure at Jay County is that he is always teaching. Regardless of how things are going on the field, good or bad, he’s trying to make sure his players learn from the situation.
Millspaugh is both liked and respected by his players. He’s excited about the opportunity to be a head coach, especially at Jay County.
The Patriots, players and fans alike, should be thrilled to have him as their leader.[[In-content Ad]]