BY BILL ORAM
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Dec 05 2011 03:52PM
Updated Dec 6, 2011 09:06AM
| Chris Homer could have been recognized as The Tribune’s Coach of the Year any of the past three seasons.
A blocked field goal in 2010 would have done it. In 2009, it might have just taken a bit stiffer defense. In 2008? A stiff wind.
Instead, his Hurricane Tigers lost by a hair each year in the Class 3A state championship game, each year to Juan Diego. Sympathetic Figure of the Year? Absolutely. If it existed they would have long ago named the trophy after him. Top coach? Always someone else.
Until now.
“I think everybody just felt sorry for me, maybe,” Homer said last week, two weeks after his Tigers finally broke their curse by topping Desert Hills 21-0 in a snow globe title game at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
Perhaps Homer’s finest coaching trait is that he kept at it.
They say if you fail, try and try again. But a third try? A fourth?
At some point a man has no choice but to give up.
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