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And we had Athletic Directors that didn’t pay attention.

Hopefully the right one is place. Look at what happened after Pat and Terry graduated. Suddenly Auburn abandoned the passing as goes three yards, cloud of dust, punt and wear the opponents down. Read the stats on 1972 and you’re lucky to throw four passes in a football game. Lucky to complete two. But the belief of the team in the system amounted to the success of that team.

My Senior year of high school was a success because I a QB Coach fort the time. West Point grad, QB for West Point. First ball game trailing by 4 in the third quarter. Came off the field after two dropped passes and a failed run. Punt team came in, I had gone to the sideline took off my helmet and my cup of Gatorade. Punt is made, ball killed six inches from the goal line. “Glenn get your butt over here and bring your helmet. On the first play they will fumble and you going to run the goose.” He predicted exactly as it happened. I stood looking at him with my mouth open. “Go run what I told you” The goose is simple hands under center, apply pressure, snap without a cadence…..only two people move on the field. We had talked about but never practiced the play. Call a normal play in the huddle go out and run as a surprise. When the ball was snapped and Bob and I took off, I looked to right and the Defensive tackle look up with an “Aw Chit” look on his face. At that moment the entire season was changed. I believed the man walked on water. Minutes later in the series, threw a 20 yard touchdown pass to seal the win. I believe if something happens to cause the team as a whole to buy into your intentions, you can beat giants.
it’s been too long since Gus caused the initial downward slide and compromise following that to Harsin and Freeze. The budget doesn’t matter. The success must be in the hearts of the troops being led. I took those lessons from that football and applied it to every step of my career and it served me well. My sales staffs were always successful. Sometimes you need to get rid of dead wood. You replace them with energetic enthusiastic up and coming leaders.

The task at hand, are the pieces long ago missing coming together? Time will tale the story.

The radio interview told the story. The team traveled to multiple stadiums to see what other Universities had to offer. I liked the description of making this open to the students during the week and off-season.

Last minute they said the soccer game tickets are ahead of schedule in sales. Looks as if there are plans to make other sports be an annual offering to pay for all this, in the off-season.

Brown has a proven track record. May have been an off day. The best thing is that there are no “gun shy” QB’s on this roster.

Oil bases its prices on OPEC.

The US can easily declare the US oil companies will sell below OPEC prices. But that would cause the dollar to fall the Petro standard.

Look for it on You Tube.

Right answer.

No one named the Pope to be an earthly god.

California not too far behind.

Bud is a typical power hitter. He’s trying to drive each pitch over the wall. Power hitters strike out more often, because of swinging to the fence. Those were most challenging hitters to control. So he has 0-3 days and two over the fence days. I took one that was a 6’ tall , 13 year old and taught him patience. “Once you send one out, you’ll know it takes to use what’s thrown at you and what it becomes in connecting with a pitch and getting on base or the thrill it becomes to clear the fence.” The first one he hit was 380 feet into the trees, dead center field.

First year, 10 homers, second year over 20.

The Florida Gators got him for 4 years and the Chicago Cubs buried him in the minors. But he got there. It was politics after that. Kid had a more important talent. I caught him day one when I became a coach. Throwing mid 90’s from the hill. We know because at 14, the Detroit Tigers sent a scout to gun him. 9 pitches, low 91 and high 96. He was blessed to have a former catcher as a coach.

And you’ll act like fool you are.

Stupid questions.

They don’t “control” a damned thing. Need 5-6 Senators and at least 10 more Reps.

Until you have the 60 votes in the Senate and control the House….you need to go back and figure “control”

Failed in Civics or took Home economics instead.