King of the Mountain: The Jerry Moore Story »

When Appalachian State University's Division I FCS/I-AA championship football team played the University of Michigan's No. 5-ranked team in front of 110,000 screaming Wolverine fans in Ann Arbor on September 1, 2007, no one thought ASU had much of a chance. As it turned out, ASU won the game 34-32 and went on to a record third straight Division national championship.

In King of the Mountain, journalist Dick Brown traces Coach Jerry Moore's life from his playing days in Texas to his ignominious firing at Texas Tech. The book follows Moore as he quit coaching, the only job he ever loved, and wrestled with the decision to return as an unpaid assistant. From there, Moore went on to accept a coaching job at ASU and become the winningest coach in Southern Conference history. Throughout his struggles, Moore's faith kept him strong and made him a coach more devoted to nurturing young men than amassing football victories.