The decision should have been easy for Joe King. By 1996, he had been the head football coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for seven years, and had never coached a player who loved the game more than the former center on the phone asking for a job. Of course he wanted to hire Matt Patricia. (Full article: 1399 words)

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