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Extra Points: Fine Print

By Lee Pace

Mack Brown isn't certain how or why he acquired the ability to juggle so many balls at once, to manage a football program from a blimp hovering above and with a microscope on hands and knees. The ideas, he says, just seem to come. He's ravaged several forests with his lists and notes over three decades as a head coach and now types them into a pair of phones he keeps handy at all times. During an average practice, he might key in as few as 25 notes or twice that number that bear follow up with coaches, trainers, doctors, players or administrative staff.