LAS VEGAS – Wolf Pack football coach Brian Polian gave his players a reading assignment this summer.
The fourth-year head coach made each player on the team read the book “Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court,” by former Duke basketball player and current ESPN analyst Jay Bilas.
Polian said he read the book in a day and a half and gave his players three weeks to get through it. After that time period was up, he called them all into the Wolf Pack’s football building for a de facto book club.
“My wife was upset we didn’t bring in cheese and crackers and grapes,” Polian said.