First day of football practice: New coach Tom Zbikowski makes a splash at St. Patrick

First day of football practice: New coach Tom Zbikowski makes a splash at St. Patrick

Coaching high-school football has become cool. The local sidelines are sprinkled with several former NFL players. Many turned down college and pro coaching jobs to spend their time in the trenches with teenagers.The latest big-name college coach to leave for a local high school is former NFL player Tom Zbikowski, who starred at Notre Dame and Buffalo Grove. Zbikowski, who spent time as an assistant at St. Francis and Lake Forest, took over at St…