Andy Schmitz was destined to be a football coach. The Mitchell head coach has been around the game his entire life.

"I grew up on the sidelines of my dad's games," said the 41-year-old coach. "Going to practices and being the water boy and all that stuff so as soon as I realized I wasn’t good enough to play in the NFL, I decided to it was time to start thinking about coaching."

Andy couldn’t have asked for a better teacher. His father, Scott, started the program in 2000 and when he retired in 2013, Andy was given the reigns to the Mustang football program.

Now Andy is putting his own mark on a program that has won six consecutive district championships and just completed the second unbeaten regular season in school history.

"He’s take it to another level," said his father. "I am extremely proud of him. He’s just done a great job and you can tell he loves it."

"I kinda always knew that this is what I wanted to do," said Andy. "This was something I felt like I had the ability for and felt like I kind of had a mindset for. So this is something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while."

Now it’s dad who’s the one watching his son run a program he started. Despite being related their coaching styles are completely different. Dad ran the Wing-T offense, which consists of a lot of ball fakes and misdirection. Andy, a former high school quarterback, runs a four-wide receiver offense, averaging 46 points a game.

The Mitchell Mustangs are trying to win back-to-back playoff games for the first time in school history after finishing off their second unbeaten regular season under Andy Schmitz.

Andy is living out his dream, running a program started by his father more than two decades ago. Still, it’s nice to know dad is always a phone call away.