[Brother Xavier]

#1 you are using words like promotions and climbing the ladder like football is one big corporation. It is not. It’s hard for college coaches to get hired by the NFL. It’s hard for D2 college coaches to even get hired by D1 colleges. It’s very rare for high school coaches to go to college and it’s almost as rare for them to even want to.
#2 If a guy as young as Atchley was planning on coaching college as a viable option he would have done so after college which is far and away the best option
#3 you have to know people

It is 100% WHO YOU KNOW to move up the "ladder"....whether in college or in high school. I have known lots of guys who were assistants at the high school level who made the jump to college because of WHO THEY KNEW.