Before Huygens Fall Semester began a few days after Labor Day, football camp would take place in the last two weeks of August. Because of the ordeal of the end of July California Bar Exam, until now, Griff had not been worried about running Huygens football camp as Head Coach.

Bar exam results would not be released until mid-November. The worst that could happen was that he did not pass, in which case he would have to retake the exam in February, Griff was fairly confident that he had passed. If not, there was time to study again in January. But, although he had entered Law School as a potential practicing lawyer, he had emerged with an unexpected but now unshakable desire to coach.

He would, he supposed, be a lawyer in the distant future. Now what worried him was the responsibility for training camp. His longest experience of summer training camp had been six summers at the Raiders football camp. Six glorious summers on the beer soaked grounds of the El Rancho Tropicana were obviously not what he was planning for Huygens.

Nevertheless, sitting in the warm mid-summer beach house living room, when -- on the radio -- Jose Canseco came to bat with the bases loaded, Griff was remembering wild evenings of visiting five bars in the two hours before Santa Rosa training camp curfew.