Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer)
A sinking feeling overcame Mike MacIntyre as he reached into his pocket.
It was gone.
He looked in his bag. He looked everywhere, but it was gone.
MacIntyre was in his second season as the head football coach at San Jose State. Every day, he carried a special coin in his pocket that commemorated the Dodd Trophy national coach of the year award his father, George, won in 1982.
That coin gave MacIntyre a sense of security. It helped him through tough times.