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Former LSU and S Carolina Coach Paul Dietzel has passed
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:17 am
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:17 am
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RIP Coach, meant a ton to LSU folks
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Paul Dietzel, "the artist, the coach and the legend" is dead at 89. His handprint on LSU football is unmistakable. He coached the Tigers to their first modern day national championship in 1958. The famed Chinese bandits and his three-team platoon system were his creation. What came to be the LSU look, virtually unchanged since 1955, was his idea.
RIP Coach, meant a ton to LSU folks
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Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:20 am to danfraz
RIP Coach
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:21 am to danfraz
Sorry to hear that. Hadn't he become very ill in the past few months?
Prayers go up for him and his family. Hope he finds peace in that stadium in the sky.
Prayers go up for him and his family. Hope he finds peace in that stadium in the sky.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:24 am to danfraz
Gonna stop a touchdown.. Chop! Chop!
RIP Coach Paul Dietzel
This post was edited on 9/24/13 at 9:29 am
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:26 am to danfraz
Another of the old guard gone....
May his family find peace, and may all the calls go his way while in that next place.
May his family find peace, and may all the calls go his way while in that next place.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:28 am to danfraz
RIP Coach Dietzel. He did a ton for LSU, great coach
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:36 am to danfraz
The embodiment of CLASS. RIP and prayers to the family. Never heard a bad word about him.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:38 am to danfraz
What a legendary coach. Rest in peace, Coach Dietzel.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:42 am to danfraz
Meant a lot to USC also. Got us our one ACC conference championship in 1969. And he wrote the words to our current fight song -- similar to what he did at LSU.
RIP Coach.
RIP Coach.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:45 am to danfraz
Well always remember you coach.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:45 am to danfraz
Great coach, great mentor.
Sad day for college football.
Sad day for college football.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:50 am to danfraz
RIP
Posted on 9/24/13 at 9:50 am to danfraz
Dietzel was the first civilian coach hired at West Point, which previously only considered Army men. Dietzel had earned his coaching stripes at Army under then-head coach Col. Earl "Red" Blaik.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 10:13 am to danfraz
RIP Coach
Posted on 9/24/13 at 10:33 am to danfraz
When I was in the lsu tigerband a couple years ago he was a special guest at the stadium. Right before the halftime show we were at attention and about to go onto the field and he looks me right in the eye and says "go get em" then gives me a solid pat on the shoulder. I'll never forget that.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 10:53 am to danfraz
RIP
very cool
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What came to be the LSU look, virtually unchanged since 1955, was his idea.
very cool
Posted on 9/24/13 at 11:47 am to danfraz
Posted on 9/24/13 at 12:20 pm to danfraz
I actually knew coach well ... just spoke with him by phone earlier this year and we reminisced some things.
A couple of good stories he used to tell all the time. He got to the point where he would tell the same stories over and over, and I knew he was getting close to going home this last time we spoke, but still, he loved telling them.
One was about his stint at Army. (It was a prestigious job at the time.) To make a long story short, when anyone asked him why he left Army to take the SC job he would say, "Because I couldn't beat Navy." And that was true and usually everyone understood so there was no further comment ... and after a bit of silence he would add, "... they just happened to have this guy by the name of Staubach ..." and he would tell great stories about Staubach and having to coach against him and later becoming friends with him.
He was a true class gentleman.
Another was the story about how he and Strom Thurmond got the Williams-Brice money to be used for the stadium upgrades ... and few people knew that Clemson got just as much money from the Williams-Brice endowment as SCAR did.
Anyways ... oh, another time he had called several times and I was out of town but as soon as I got back I returned his call. He answers the phone and we start talking about this reunion he had with his old LSU team from that '59 Championship year and how they honored him ... and then he says, "Oh heck, I gotta go. I forgot to tell you we're having to get out of here until this storm blows over."
The Katrina evacuation had totally slipped his mind. Yet two weeks later he was calling me and we were picking-up right where he left off about the reunion story.
I've got lots more to tell. I called and left a message for Mrs. Anne a little while ago - a stranger answered their home phone and it sounded like a lot of people were there.
He was a great great man. A true gentleman, I cannot say it enough.
Two of my favorites are now gone ... Jim Carlen and Paul Dietzel. I'll miss both of them. Both really good men.
The things about Coach Dietzel, he never had a bad word to say about anyone. Not ever, under any circumstance.
A couple of good stories he used to tell all the time. He got to the point where he would tell the same stories over and over, and I knew he was getting close to going home this last time we spoke, but still, he loved telling them.
One was about his stint at Army. (It was a prestigious job at the time.) To make a long story short, when anyone asked him why he left Army to take the SC job he would say, "Because I couldn't beat Navy." And that was true and usually everyone understood so there was no further comment ... and after a bit of silence he would add, "... they just happened to have this guy by the name of Staubach ..." and he would tell great stories about Staubach and having to coach against him and later becoming friends with him.
He was a true class gentleman.
Another was the story about how he and Strom Thurmond got the Williams-Brice money to be used for the stadium upgrades ... and few people knew that Clemson got just as much money from the Williams-Brice endowment as SCAR did.
Anyways ... oh, another time he had called several times and I was out of town but as soon as I got back I returned his call. He answers the phone and we start talking about this reunion he had with his old LSU team from that '59 Championship year and how they honored him ... and then he says, "Oh heck, I gotta go. I forgot to tell you we're having to get out of here until this storm blows over."
The Katrina evacuation had totally slipped his mind. Yet two weeks later he was calling me and we were picking-up right where he left off about the reunion story.
I've got lots more to tell. I called and left a message for Mrs. Anne a little while ago - a stranger answered their home phone and it sounded like a lot of people were there.
He was a great great man. A true gentleman, I cannot say it enough.
Two of my favorites are now gone ... Jim Carlen and Paul Dietzel. I'll miss both of them. Both really good men.
The things about Coach Dietzel, he never had a bad word to say about anyone. Not ever, under any circumstance.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 12:27 pm to danfraz
He was a great coach.
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