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The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Mike Bianchi column: Apopka coach: 'I'm back where I belong'.
Byline: Mike Bianchi
Aug. 20--APOPKA -- The last time he coached at Apopka High, he drove a 1987 Jeep with no heater and no top.
If it was cold on his way to work, Rick Darlington froze. If it rained, he got wet.
Then he left for his dream job to become coach at Valdosta (Ga.) High, the most prestigious program in the history of high school football. They paid him nearly $100,000 a year and leased him a new $35,000 Dodge Ram pickup, with hemi and four-wheel drive.
"After the Jeep, let me tell you I appreciated that truck," Darlington twangs in that laid-back Lakeland lilt of his. "I loved that truck. It was an awesome truck."
He shrugs.
"But I don't miss it, not at all. I just feel blessed that I'm back where I belong. Not everybody gets a chance to come back to a place they love."
Darlington is…
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