Rick
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Post by Rick on Sept 30, 2014 8:17:46 GMT -7
Before the 1978 Roswell game, Phipps tried to convince me to take a photo of a dead coyote hanging from a Bulldog Bowl goalpost and run it in the ADP. Thanks to Gunderson -- who that previous spring had clued me in on this sort of motivational stuff -- I declined, telling Phipps, "Mike, you really expect me to believe this is legitimate?"
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Years ago in its College Football Preview issue, Sports Illustrated ran a story on motivational tricks by college football coaches of the past, some of which worked, some of which bombed. Two I remember:
Trying to fire up his team before a big game, one coach told the players that his son was deathly ill, probably wasn't going to make it, and would they win this game for him. The players all were stunned, they knew the coach's son well, liked him, and thus were ready to murder the opponent. But five minutes before they left the locker room, the door opened and the coach's son walked in, hale and hearty. There never had been anything wrong with him, but his dad neglected to tell him to not visit the locker room this time.
Once at Notre Dame, Rockne's team was losing at halftime to some cream puff. The Irish sat there waiting for Rock to come in and start screaming and yelling. But he never showed. Nobody did. Nothing -- they sat there cowering in silence, wondering where Rock was. Then, about a minute before they went out for the third quarter, Rockne stuck his head in the door and mildly asked his players, "Are you ready (for the second half), girls?"
That's all it took.
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Post by Mr. Pitch on Sept 30, 2014 10:07:46 GMT -7
Mr Pitch I was out of Coaching when you got the feminine products and statue of limitations has run out on that said deed. LMBO! I SHOULDA KNOWN! AWESOME!
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