How Gase’s ‘nutcase’ work ethic vaulted him up coaching ladder

Adam GaseNow 40, Adam Gase, the next coach of the New York Jets, is married to a former linebacker’s daughter, a father of three and on his second job as a head coach in the AFC East. He still goes by “Goose” back at his alma mater, Marshall (Mich.) High. Rich Hulkow, the retired coach whose name is on the school’s field, laughs when he thinks about the routes his old wideout has taken since graduating in 1996.

Gase was a gangly pleaser then. Hulkow remembers the play designs Gase would leave on his office desk. Hulkow read them in the morning, and says Gase was already geared toward analytics as a teen. His natural talent was for numbers.

“He was no star, not a starter, either,” Hulkow says.…