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re: RIP to one of the GOAT southern men of all time
Posted on 6/2/20 at 11:54 am to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 6/2/20 at 11:54 am to SummerOfGeorge
He was a hell of a game day coach. Even after he retired, well after he retired, you would, from time to time, hear him say "this is why this team is going to beat that team and here is how they are going to do it".
Folks would laugh. He'd been out of coaching for years and years.... and then this team would beat that team and they would do it exactly how Pat Dye said they were going to do it.
Yes, he was as country as can be but he had a mind like a steel trap. He could, to borrow a phrase about Bear Bryant... "Take his'ins and beat your'ins. And then take your'ins and beat his'ins."
Folks would laugh. He'd been out of coaching for years and years.... and then this team would beat that team and they would do it exactly how Pat Dye said they were going to do it.
Yes, he was as country as can be but he had a mind like a steel trap. He could, to borrow a phrase about Bear Bryant... "Take his'ins and beat your'ins. And then take your'ins and beat his'ins."
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Posted on 6/2/20 at 2:41 pm to SummerOfGeorge
It seemed like he always had his Auburn team ready to play.
I enjoyed hearing him when he was on Finebaum's show. I remember back about 2003, I think it was, Georgia played at Alabama. He said on Finebaum he did not think Georgia was man enough to beat Alabama. Well, Georgia got wind of it, came out and played very well and beat Alabama. He was on Finebaum the next week and he said he had both fanbases mad at him. Georgia for saying they weren't man enough and Alabama because he got Georgia motivated to play them. It was funny listening to him.
Fran Tarkenton said many times there was no better teammate than Pat Dye. RIP Pat we are going to miss you.
I enjoyed hearing him when he was on Finebaum's show. I remember back about 2003, I think it was, Georgia played at Alabama. He said on Finebaum he did not think Georgia was man enough to beat Alabama. Well, Georgia got wind of it, came out and played very well and beat Alabama. He was on Finebaum the next week and he said he had both fanbases mad at him. Georgia for saying they weren't man enough and Alabama because he got Georgia motivated to play them. It was funny listening to him.
Fran Tarkenton said many times there was no better teammate than Pat Dye. RIP Pat we are going to miss you.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 5:57 pm to SummerOfGeorge
As my barner boss said, "He's Bear without all the rings..."
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:38 pm to Wroll Tyde
Coach Dye will be greatly missed ... and not just by the Auburn family. He was a southern original.
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Posted on 6/2/20 at 7:00 pm to cadillacattack
Coach Dye and Stallings on Finebaum used to be can’t miss stuff. Grew up a bama fan, but always liked Pat’s takes over Gene’s. Loved it when he talked about meeting Harper Lee and the time he talked about the pet wolf he raised from a pup.
Hell of man. Wish the SEC had more coaches like him now.
Hell of man. Wish the SEC had more coaches like him now.
This post was edited on 6/2/20 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 6/2/20 at 7:59 pm to jangalang
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it’s undeniable he was the one who put Auburn on the map.
You may be forgetting a fellow by the name of Shug Jorden, he is Auburn's legend
Posted on 6/2/20 at 8:00 pm to blackcurly
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Coach Dye and Stallings on Finebaum used to be can’t miss stuff. Grew up a bama fan, but always liked Pat’s takes over Gene’s
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Loved it when he talked about meeting Harper Lee and the time he talked about the pet wolf he raised from a pup.
She gave him a signed copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, he gave her a signed copy of In the Arena
Posted on 6/2/20 at 9:27 pm to SummerOfGeorge
He called it To Kill a Jayhawk or something crazy like that. Been quite a while.
Dye had the better Cranework’s spotbecause he did the Monday show that wrapped up the weekend while Stallings was on Friday and previewed the upcoming games.
Dye had the better Cranework’s spotbecause he did the Monday show that wrapped up the weekend while Stallings was on Friday and previewed the upcoming games.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 9:30 pm to blackcurly
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He called it To Kill a Jayhawk or something crazy like that. Been quite a while.
To Kill a Blackbird!
Posted on 6/3/20 at 12:10 am to SummerOfGeorge
SOG 
Posted on 6/3/20 at 9:10 am to SummerOfGeorge
This was the football I was raised on. RIP Pat Dye! 
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:04 am to sand mountainDvalues
Howard Schellenberger is still alive as well.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 12:36 pm to RollTide4Ever
Gettin a little dusty in here fellas...
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‘I want to fertilize this tree’: Pat Dye buried Tuesday beneath Toomer’s Oak trimming
The stadium, the field, the expectations, the locker rooms, Bo… the man was a living legend. But in a certain sense, even in death, Pat Dye is still actively helping Auburn grow.
On Tuesday, just one day after his death, clothed in a white shroud, the Auburn icon was buried beneath a now 15-foot cutting from one of the original Toomer’s Corner oak trees as the sun set over his Notasulga farm. There was no casket.
“I want to fertilize this tree and for my spirit to hover around this tree,” Dye told Auburn booster and close friend and former commercial colleague Jimmy Rane, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
Rane was one of the few non-family attendees at the funeral. The others were former Dye coaching assistants Joe Whitt Sr. and Rodney Garner, who also played for Dye, and a Heisman Trophy winner named Bo Jackson.
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‘I want to fertilize this tree’: Pat Dye buried Tuesday beneath Toomer’s Oak trimming
The stadium, the field, the expectations, the locker rooms, Bo… the man was a living legend. But in a certain sense, even in death, Pat Dye is still actively helping Auburn grow.
On Tuesday, just one day after his death, clothed in a white shroud, the Auburn icon was buried beneath a now 15-foot cutting from one of the original Toomer’s Corner oak trees as the sun set over his Notasulga farm. There was no casket.
“I want to fertilize this tree and for my spirit to hover around this tree,” Dye told Auburn booster and close friend and former commercial colleague Jimmy Rane, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
Rane was one of the few non-family attendees at the funeral. The others were former Dye coaching assistants Joe Whitt Sr. and Rodney Garner, who also played for Dye, and a Heisman Trophy winner named Bo Jackson.
This post was edited on 6/3/20 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 6/3/20 at 1:30 pm to sand mountainDvalues
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Gonna be a sad day when Majors and Dooley join him :/
:(
Posted on 6/3/20 at 2:44 pm to schmoo
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You may be forgetting a fellow by the name of Shug Jorden, he is Auburn's legend
With due respect to Shug he doesn't come close to Dye's resume.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:46 pm to kage
Hard to believe a rough and tumble man like Pat Dye could have such a poignant funeral. This is one of the cooler burial plans I’ve ever heard of. Makes me respect the man even more which is weird because as a brat kid from the 80s loving bama, I hated the man. Now it’s like one of the Bama coaches passed. I was truly moved by the burial plan. Takes a lot to move me like that. Pat was just a genuine guy. That’s what was so great about him.
This post was edited on 6/3/20 at 3:47 pm
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