"I wear the ring."

And so begins one of the most powerful books I've ever read.

In Pat Conroy's The Lords of Discipline, a book about life as an undergraduate at The Citadel—Charleston, S.C.'s famed military school—the main character seeks the ring awarded to graduates.

But there's someone else whom you might consider to be in pursuit of that elusive metaphor of accomplishment.

He's The Citadel's head football coach, Kevin Higgins.

Higgins got his start at a small high school not too far from my home in New Jersey. As the head football coach at North Warren (N.J.) High School, Higgins began his journey.

He'd ta...

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