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Jimmy was still there when they hired Lacewell. He wanted someone that had a fresh view of the college players like he did when coming in. But yeah, Lacewell just couldn't pick very well. Jerry should have moved on quickly but they were friends.
Aug. 26, 1992: Jones had just hired his longtime buddy Larry Lacewell, a former college coach, to be his director of college scouting. Not long after he reported for work at Valley Ranch, Lacewell received a call from a 49ers official who wanted to know whether the Cowboys were interested in the talented but troubled Charles Haley.
"I'd honestly never heard of the guy," Lacewell told me a few years ago. "I think the note sat on my desk for three or four days before I finally walked it down to Jerry's office. When I told him what it was, he nearly dove over the desk."
Haley would become the most dominant pass-rusher on three Super Bowl-winning teams.
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