North Dakota State’s Coach Had To Sell A Golf Club To Afford The Job Interview That Led To Him Leading An FBS Team

North Dakota State’s Coach Had To Sell A Golf Club To Afford The Job Interview That Led To Him Leading An FBS Team

Twenty years before Tim Polasek became the man responsible for guiding one of college football’s greatest dynasties into the FBS, he was working a logging job in Wisconsin and trying to figure out how to afford a trip to Fargo. His solution was wonderfully simple: sell his TaylorMade driver and hope this whole football-coaching thing […] The post North Dakota State’s Coach Had To Sell A Golf Club To Afford The Job Interview That Led To Him Leadi…

Tim Polasek & NDSU Were Built The Hard Way

Before Tim Polasek became the 32nd head football coach at North Dakota State, there were days he worked on the floor of a Wisconsin forest and nights he slept inside the NDSU locker room. Neither location offered much comfort. The forest saw temperatures dip to 10 or 15 degrees below zero in the winter and climb into blazing heat during the summer. The locker room offered shelter, but only temporarily. Polasek lived there for four or five months…