re: Ever seen a prominent coach in public just by chance?

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Yes Les Miles. Met him before a game I was umpiring in Baton Rouge. His son played at a private league. Super nice guy sat down and talked with me for like 20 minutes.

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THIS. I got to visit with Les on a few occasions at the old Drillers Diamonds when my nephew was playing baseball in a league with his son. Les would stand behind the the scorer’s box behind home plate and talk to whomever walked up to him. At the ballpark, he was “just another Dad” watching his son play. I thought that I would never have been able to visit with Nick Saban at one of his son’s games because he wouldn’t have been there. He would have been studying game film somewhere.

A couple of years later, I visited with him on the sideline at my son’s Ymca basketball game when his youngest was also playing. I joked with him that there was “no coaching allowed” from the bleachers. He smiled and said his daughter told him the same thing. LOL. I remember complementing him on a great recruiting class that year, and he said that he had the best coaching staff around.