On a Sunday morning in October 2019, Rick Winbigler sat in the kitchen of Durand High School athletic director Bryan Carpenter with his eyes closed and adrenaline rushing through his body.
The Clarkston native coached high-level prep football in in Oklahoma before making his way back to Michigan to turn around a struggling Durand program, but nothing in his gridiron past could have prepared him for the stress of that moment when his team’s season hinged on a coin flip.