Coach (TV Series) - Plot

Plot

In early seasons, Coach Fox continues to come to grips with the emerging womanhood of his "little girl," Kelly, now a campus coed played by Clare Carey, who enrolled at Minnesota State mainly because she wanted to be near her father. Kelly dated, and eventually married in the second season, theater mime Stuart Rosebrock (Kris Kamm), whom Hayden could not stand. Their marriage ended in 1991 after Stuart, returning from filming his own kids TV show Buzzy the Beaver, told Kelly that he'd met another woman. While overtly supporting Kelly with her heartbreak, Coach Fox clandestinely couldn't have been happier to have 'Stu' out of both of their lives. After graduating from Minnesota State in 1993, Kelly got a job at a major ad agency job in New York. She was only seen in occasional guest spots thereafter.

Much of Hayden's coaching job, besides mentoring his players, was working with his assistants Luther van Dam (Jerry van Dyke), a lifelong bachelor who often struggled with self-confidence and Michael "Dauber" Daubinski, an ex-player at Minnesota State and a stereotypical "dumb jock", whose ongoing joke was he had not yet graduated from Minnesota State despite being enrolled for several years (he would later graduate with three bachelors degrees in Physical Education, Business Administration, and Forestry without even knowing it until he got his transcript for that semester), but would often surprisingly be of intellectual help to the team, usually learned from a class he was attending or because he was a fan of Nova. Another person Hayden could not stand was the ladies' basketball coach Judy Watkins, whom Hayden often got into prank wars with, but was complicated by the fact Dauber dated her until 1995 when she confessed to an affair after returning from a coaching job in France. Also seen throughout the run was Minnesota State athletic director Howard Burleigh (Kenneth Kimmins) and his nutty wife Shirley (Georgia Engel), who were close friends with Hayden and Christine.

At the end of season 7, Hayden is offered a job with a fictional NFL expansion team called the "Orlando Breakers". Hayden agrees and takes his coaching staff with him for the final two seasons. The Foxes adopted a baby boy named Timothy (played by twins Brennan and Brian Felker). Many season 9 episodes focused on the couple's newfound joy of parenthood, as they had been unable to conceive a child together before they decided to adopt.