Daily Fix - Aug. 18

<p>It's almost here but you still have to get through most of August until football season finally arrives. So we're giving you a daily football fix leading right up to the first games on Aug. 28. Sun sports writers Pat Dooley and Robbie Andreu will provide lists, trivia, Swampcasts and essays to get you through the rest of the summer.</p><p>Today, Dooley looks at the nation's five most underrated coaches:</p><p><b>1. Gary Patterson, TCU:</b> the average fan sees that TCU is playing and dismisses it. But watch the horned Frogs and you will see a team that is as well-coached as any in the country. TCU is 62-25 under Patterson but nobody seems to notice.</p><p><b>2. Skip Holtz, East Carolina:</b> He's no longer the son of college football's biggest fraud. Skip took over a program going nowhere — bad players, worse facilities — and has managed to win 20 of 37 games in three seasons including a bowl game last year.</p><p><b>3. Bobby Johnson, Vanderbilt:</b> No longer do you mark a “W” next to your game against the Commodores. Johnson is hardly playing on a level playing field but he has made Vandy dangerous. I'd love to see what he could do at a school with a real stadium.</p><p><b>4. Jim Grobe, Wake Forest:</b> I think the people who really follow football closely respect Grobe but there a lot of fans who aren't sure how to pronounce his name (it's Grobe like robe) or would recognize him in a lineup. He may be one of the 10 or 15 best coaches in America.</p><p><b>5. Jim Tressel, Ohio State:</b> I put him on the list because people love to make jokes about Tressel and the Buckeyes because of what has happened the last two title games. But his run over the last seven years is as good as anybody not named Pete Carroll.</p>