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This is another time-crunch issue that I was thinking about.  Think about everything that goes into this:

• Your defense gets an eight yard sack on 2nd and 4 setting up 3rd and 12.  
• The offense runs off a FB and a TE and replaces them with two WR's.  

you have a D-coordinator responsible for this.  He has assistant coaches on the field and in the booth with responsibilities.
Players are also responsible to be ready and know the situation and expectations of their roles in the defense
obviously, when something breaks down, you, as the head coach get called out in the post-game presser

I think the head coach has to be a manager more than anything. I think that's what trips up some of the coaches who end up failing miserably, that they don't effectively manage their coordinators and assistants.

I definitely think this is true in any managerial position.  I only have a fairly small staff but I can tell you that when I have good people, life is easy and when I don't, there aren't enough hours in the day for me to make up for it.  
The thing that makes it difficult, and I imagine that this is at least somewhat true for HC's as well, is that hiring seems to me to be more art than science.  I know that I have made hires that I thought would be great that were only so/so and hires that I was nervous about that ended up being great.  You just never know.  

I recall an embarrassing incident back when I played baseball.  I used to coach 3rd base, because someone had to do it.  Obviously there isn't much to it really.  We had a few signals and whatnot but the batter often didn't bother looking.  Fine with me.

One time we had a runner on second and the batter hit a gapper into left field, not hard, but right at the LFer, and as the runner approached 3rd base, I completely froze in indecision.  The guy kept running and was out by 20 feet on the throw.  My mind hit that 50-50 point.  Obviously I should have held him unless I was pretty sure he could make it.  But I froze.

I can imagine something similar happening in a football game, 4th and a yard or something, and you HAVE TO DECIDE quickly.

great story

the opposing coach is a dick

I used to coach and ref rec soccer.  I have a lot of stories about that one.

The point I was pondering, obviously, is how ready "we" are with criticisms for coaching calls.  (I mean the "we" of course being folks who don't post here.)  Those folks are ready with criticism, including the Talking Heads, who by and large can't coach, so they criticize.

I am reminded me of a quote by Teddy Roosevelt.

This is the kind of question that a person only asks, annoyingly, if he already has the answer he would give for himself, but I persevere despite my tackiness:

Is there a coach in the game that you really relate to? Like, can you think of a CFB coach that you believe is similar in habits or personality to you?

For me, and I know there are many people who see him rather negatively, like he can never turn it off, just way too up all the time, but it absolutely has to be PJ Fleck. BTN has this new program all to itself that is 100% Monday/Tuesday pressers. I DVR it and have that in the background fairly often. And I gotta say that, aside from Harbaugh (because that's my team), no one makes me look up from my household chores or computer screen to nod along like PJ Fleck.

Whether I'm lecturing in front of a class or leading my labmates (or thinking about building a team/clinic/department in the future), I notice that he and I speak similarly and have similar philosophies about life. Enthusiasm through the roof. And putting on a pedestal the idea that there's nothing a healthy human brain can't think and do that any other healthy human brain has ever thought or done before. That kind of optimism has basically always been my entire teaching philosophy. And so far it's never failed.

Anyway, I always kind of liked PJ, but this weekly presser thing is making me like him more and more. He's not for everyone, I'm sure. And I wouldn't be surprised if the same people on this board who think he's a blowhard have felt the same about me. It's fully cool and comes with the territory.