Lian has been coaching at Brighton for 13 seasons and views this season as a culmination of all of the years, players and families from the past.
“It’s for sure a historic season, but it’s really a culmination of the last decade,” Lian said. “We took over, My staff joined me, in taking over a program that had been really at the bottom of the barrel in our area for several decades and there were a lot of early years of frustration, of it not going faster and, but still, kind of everybody having to hold together to kind of make sure the foundation was solid before we build anything too fast… It’s really about we had a lot of players and families that put a lot of faith in us in the early years… When we accomplished what we did this year, that’s really what I was thinking about.”
In addition to being nominated for the Don Shula award, Lian is the Buffalo Bills and Legends Global Merchandise Coach of the Year for Section V, while Jeremy Zimmer was named the Bills and Legends Coach of the Year for Section VI (Buffalo Region).
Each coach, as well as 20 coaches who earned Buffalo Bills and Legends Global Merchandise Coach of the Week honors throughout the season, were honored at halftime of the Buffalo Bills Week 17 game against the New York Jets.
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