Coach of the Year is a 1980 American TV film about a paraplegic coach, starring Robert Conrad, Erin Gray, Red West and Daphne Reid.

Jim Brandon, a former player for the Chicago Bears, is a returning veteran who has been paralyzed in the Vietnam War.

He comes up with the idea of becoming the football coach at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles after a visit there.

It was produced by John Ashley, a former actor who was an old friend of Conrad's.

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