Like most football coaches, there was a point in Brian Newberry’s life where he pondered his path forward. Now the new Navy head coach, Newberry explored a multitude of trails before settling on the one that eventually led him to Annapolis.
Those trails were both metaphorical and literal.
“I took another semester to graduate and during that transition, our staff got fired. So, I didn’t have any real connections to try and stay on at Baylor,” Newberry remembered of his college playing days. “I didn’t know if I wanted to do a graduate assistantship and go that route, so I took a year off basically.