If there has been a better job of coaching in the East Bay in the last 20 years, someone please point it out to me. There sure isn't anyone else this year. Isaacs has done a magnificent job of restructuring Foothill from a year ago. He saw what he had to work with it and changed his system to accommodate the players. Too many coaches try and make the players fit their system rather than work around the players.
Disaster always awaits.
But Isaacs saw what he had and has made it work. Foothill has been called three farm boys and two midgets. But someone's got to be pulling the strings on a nightly basis, and it's Big Red, as Isaacs is known around Foothill. In the eight to 10 Foothill games I've seen this year, including six of the last seven, Isaacs has always been one step ahead of the other team. He's been able to keep the players focused, be it with a big lead late or trailing by 11 in the fourth quarter, as was the case against Del Norte in the NCS final.