1940-
Former Fotball Coach, Founder of Promise Keepers

"The Game of His Life."

All his life, Bill McCartney knew he was going to be a coach. "I never saw myself doing anything else," he once told an interviewer. After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1962, McCartney coached highschool football for twelve years before landing his first collegiate position as a defensive coordinator for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1974. By 1982, McCartney and his family were on their way to the University of Colorado, located in Boulder, where McCartney had agreed to take on the floundering Buffaloes. In his determination to rebuild the ailing football program, however, McCartney neglected to check on the status of his own family.

Life With Father.

In the next few years, McCartney saw his struggling program grow stronger. In 1989 he was named Coach of the Year. In 1991, almost a decade after...