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Nors;1742100 said:
heheheheh
Silly boy, we all know the Irish always play a brutal schedule
Staubach smiling- Navy sinks Irish
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Silly boy, we all know the Irish always play a brutal schedule
LeonDixson
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Nors;1742100 said:
They'll probably need to keep that schedule as long as Weiss is their coach.
trickblue
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CanadianCowboysFan;1742088 said:
Boy... that one flew right over your head...
When you play for one of the armed forces schools you realize you may not have a career in the NFL, but that is not even the point. The kids that go to our military academies are the best of the best. These kids realize they have a commitment to our armed forces...
We were fortunate enough to have Chad Hennings on our team...
He was only available because he was too darn big to fly anything other than A-10 Wart Hogs (tank busters) if I remember correctly...
Not many teams take a flyer on military kids. The Cowboys have a history of doing just that...
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Navy is soft... and so are its seaman...
Nors
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Belichick was a very respected assistant coach at Navy during Rogers years there.
His coaching acumen was unquestioned, his film sessions a lesson in how to deconstruct an opponent.
Navy upset No. 1 Washington, 15-14, in 1960 thanks to a Belichick scouting report noting that though the Huskies held a distinct size and speed advantage, they were also overaggressive and vulnerable to a clock-chewing short passing game. Bellino converted a fourth-down screen pass to set up the winning score.
Two years later, Navy faced an Army squad led by a hotshot young coach named Paul Dietzel who had taken LSU to the 1958 national championship while employing a colorful defensive unit he dubbed, "The Chinese Bandits."
Dietzel could be a showman, the antithesis of Belichick. Belichick's season revolved around beating Army to begin with, but he took extra pleasure in that year's 34-14 mauling.
"Steve was really fired up for that one," Staubach recalled. "He really enjoyed outfoxing Dietzel. He knew Army's game plan better than their coaches."
Belichick cultivated an all-business persona that nevertheless left room for a dry sense of humor. During the Monday scouting meeting before the Washington game, he wrote the heights and weights of Washington's biggest players, along with a slew of flattering adjectives not uncommon to his son's lexicon – "big,' "strong," "fast."
"The best advice I can give," Bellino recalled him saying, "is before the game when you're warming up in your end and they're warming up in their end, don't look at them. Because they'll scare the crap out of you."
"He didn't say crap, by the way," Bellino added. "With that, we broke up. It made us very loose for the game."
Belichick's sense of humor befitted a military man – biting, wry and concise.
He rode Pioli about his weight. He cussed out Staubach on the sidelines. He cracked up Groh.
Forzano remembers a scouting trip to Notre Dame. Belichick went a day early to take in a famed Fighting Irish Friday night pep rally, "to see if it was Knute Rockne and all that stuff."
He finished his pregame report on Monday and turned to leave.
"What about the rally?" Forzano asked.
"Aww, it's a bunch of baloney," Belichick said. "But I hope we lose next Saturday."
"He had that dry humor, baby," Forzano said. "He could make these cutting remarks and you didn't even know they were cutting until you looked down and you didn't have any legs."
Remembrances
Belichick's friends recall him as a gifted storyteller, which makes it fitting that they'd have anecdotes of their own.
During his first scouting trip in 1992, for example, Pioli was greeted in the West Virginia press box by Steve and Jeannette, the latter busily highlighting starters in a flip card, pencils and markers neatly arranged in front of her.
"She wasn't there to eat popcorn. She was his partner," Pioli said. "It was a pretty amazing operation. Here's a guy who's quote-unquote retired, and he and his wife are this well-oiled machine."
Midway through the game the officials flagged a bad penalty on visiting Syracuse. Belichick moaned. Pioli blanched. Sitting directly in front of them were Big East officials.
"I leaned over and whispered, 'Steve, those are the Big East observers,' " Pioli said. "One of them was still looking at us and he looked ticked off. Steve looks at me and says, 'I don't give a damn who they are. This is home cooking and that referee crew sucks."
"Here I am this young kid. Can you imagine? He didn't care. It was beautiful. Just beautiful."
When it came to football, Belichick always had an opinion. Ferentz attended the annual college coach's convention in New Orleans in 2003. At 11 one night, he spied Belichick heading for an elevator across the ballroom.
"I figured he was getting ready to go up to bed, but I wanted to say hello," Ferentz said from his office yesterday. "Fifty-five minutes later, I was still getting a clinic on special teams."
And the fact that Belichick was even attending coaching conventions at age 84?
"If I had to guess, I'd say he'd made it to about 60 straight at that point," Ferentz said. "It was our last conversation, and it showed he still had an unrivaled passion for the game."
Saban's favorite Belichick memory came during his lone season as a Navy assistant in 1982.
"We called him the emperor," Saban said. "We had all the assistant coaches in one room with their desks in the corner. He had been there for so long that when the Admiral left (the Academy) – you know he had the great big chair – Steve confiscated it in some kind of way from the military guys that he knew. He was the emperor. He had the biggest chair in the whole academy. He had the Admiral's chair, man."
The family bond
The most important people in Belichick's life were his wife Jeannette and his only child Bill.
"That picture of him and Bill getting the water dumped on their heads during (last year's) Super Bowl was a defining moment," said Fresno State coach Pat Hill, a former Browns assistant. "I didn't get to enjoy my father for as long as I would have liked, and Bill was very fortunate to have his as long as he did. They were so proud of each other."
Sometimes it was hard to tell who was more proud of whom. "It was a dead heat," Forzano said. Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi said the elder Belichick brought out a slightly softer side in his demanding coach. Pioli recalled afternoons with Bill and his parents on Nantucket. Forzano said the father-son bond he first witnessed when Bill was five never weakened.
"Where you saw Steve, you saw Billy," Forzano said. "Billy wasn't forced into anything, but he wasn't coddled. Sometimes when your dad's the coach, kids can be out there like they have the run of the practice field. That wasn't the case. Billy was never out of line.
"Steve was Naval Academy through and through," Forzano added. "He likes people that take instruction. He likes people that show respect. He likes people that want to get better than they are today. And having been in the service, Steve was a very, very patriotic American. He passed those qualities to Bill."
Steve Belichick passed away during USC's 50-42 victory over Fresno State Saturday, just hours after watching Navy's victory over Temple.
Even as he pushed closer to 90 than 80, his death shocked. If his friends can take any solace in his passing, it's that he went out a real football guy right to the very end.
"Even though he was in his 80s, he was a healthy 80," Staubach said. "We're going to miss the heck out of him. But if Steve had a plan on how he wanted to leave, he wasn't the type you were going to see in a nursing home. Watching football, that's probably the way he would have chosen."
Funeral at Naval Academy
A funeral service will be held tomorrow for Steve Belichick at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Md. The burial will be at the Naval Academy Cemetery.
The Belichick family will receive friends and honor the former Navy assistant football coach today at a funeral home in Annapolis, Md.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Steve Belichick Scholarship Fund, which rewards student-athletes at Struthers (Ohio) High School. Donations can be sent to: Steve Belichick Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 715, Foxboro, MA 02035.
His coaching acumen was unquestioned, his film sessions a lesson in how to deconstruct an opponent.
Navy upset No. 1 Washington, 15-14, in 1960 thanks to a Belichick scouting report noting that though the Huskies held a distinct size and speed advantage, they were also overaggressive and vulnerable to a clock-chewing short passing game. Bellino converted a fourth-down screen pass to set up the winning score.
Two years later, Navy faced an Army squad led by a hotshot young coach named Paul Dietzel who had taken LSU to the 1958 national championship while employing a colorful defensive unit he dubbed, "The Chinese Bandits."
Dietzel could be a showman, the antithesis of Belichick. Belichick's season revolved around beating Army to begin with, but he took extra pleasure in that year's 34-14 mauling.
"Steve was really fired up for that one," Staubach recalled. "He really enjoyed outfoxing Dietzel. He knew Army's game plan better than their coaches."
Belichick cultivated an all-business persona that nevertheless left room for a dry sense of humor. During the Monday scouting meeting before the Washington game, he wrote the heights and weights of Washington's biggest players, along with a slew of flattering adjectives not uncommon to his son's lexicon – "big,' "strong," "fast."
"The best advice I can give," Bellino recalled him saying, "is before the game when you're warming up in your end and they're warming up in their end, don't look at them. Because they'll scare the crap out of you."
"He didn't say crap, by the way," Bellino added. "With that, we broke up. It made us very loose for the game."
Belichick's sense of humor befitted a military man – biting, wry and concise.
He rode Pioli about his weight. He cussed out Staubach on the sidelines. He cracked up Groh.
Forzano remembers a scouting trip to Notre Dame. Belichick went a day early to take in a famed Fighting Irish Friday night pep rally, "to see if it was Knute Rockne and all that stuff."
He finished his pregame report on Monday and turned to leave.
"What about the rally?" Forzano asked.
"Aww, it's a bunch of baloney," Belichick said. "But I hope we lose next Saturday."
"He had that dry humor, baby," Forzano said. "He could make these cutting remarks and you didn't even know they were cutting until you looked down and you didn't have any legs."
Remembrances
Belichick's friends recall him as a gifted storyteller, which makes it fitting that they'd have anecdotes of their own.
During his first scouting trip in 1992, for example, Pioli was greeted in the West Virginia press box by Steve and Jeannette, the latter busily highlighting starters in a flip card, pencils and markers neatly arranged in front of her.
"She wasn't there to eat popcorn. She was his partner," Pioli said. "It was a pretty amazing operation. Here's a guy who's quote-unquote retired, and he and his wife are this well-oiled machine."
Midway through the game the officials flagged a bad penalty on visiting Syracuse. Belichick moaned. Pioli blanched. Sitting directly in front of them were Big East officials.
"I leaned over and whispered, 'Steve, those are the Big East observers,' " Pioli said. "One of them was still looking at us and he looked ticked off. Steve looks at me and says, 'I don't give a damn who they are. This is home cooking and that referee crew sucks."
"Here I am this young kid. Can you imagine? He didn't care. It was beautiful. Just beautiful."
When it came to football, Belichick always had an opinion. Ferentz attended the annual college coach's convention in New Orleans in 2003. At 11 one night, he spied Belichick heading for an elevator across the ballroom.
"I figured he was getting ready to go up to bed, but I wanted to say hello," Ferentz said from his office yesterday. "Fifty-five minutes later, I was still getting a clinic on special teams."
And the fact that Belichick was even attending coaching conventions at age 84?
"If I had to guess, I'd say he'd made it to about 60 straight at that point," Ferentz said. "It was our last conversation, and it showed he still had an unrivaled passion for the game."
Saban's favorite Belichick memory came during his lone season as a Navy assistant in 1982.
"We called him the emperor," Saban said. "We had all the assistant coaches in one room with their desks in the corner. He had been there for so long that when the Admiral left (the Academy) – you know he had the great big chair – Steve confiscated it in some kind of way from the military guys that he knew. He was the emperor. He had the biggest chair in the whole academy. He had the Admiral's chair, man."
The family bond
The most important people in Belichick's life were his wife Jeannette and his only child Bill.
"That picture of him and Bill getting the water dumped on their heads during (last year's) Super Bowl was a defining moment," said Fresno State coach Pat Hill, a former Browns assistant. "I didn't get to enjoy my father for as long as I would have liked, and Bill was very fortunate to have his as long as he did. They were so proud of each other."
Sometimes it was hard to tell who was more proud of whom. "It was a dead heat," Forzano said. Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi said the elder Belichick brought out a slightly softer side in his demanding coach. Pioli recalled afternoons with Bill and his parents on Nantucket. Forzano said the father-son bond he first witnessed when Bill was five never weakened.
"Where you saw Steve, you saw Billy," Forzano said. "Billy wasn't forced into anything, but he wasn't coddled. Sometimes when your dad's the coach, kids can be out there like they have the run of the practice field. That wasn't the case. Billy was never out of line.
"Steve was Naval Academy through and through," Forzano added. "He likes people that take instruction. He likes people that show respect. He likes people that want to get better than they are today. And having been in the service, Steve was a very, very patriotic American. He passed those qualities to Bill."
Steve Belichick passed away during USC's 50-42 victory over Fresno State Saturday, just hours after watching Navy's victory over Temple.
Even as he pushed closer to 90 than 80, his death shocked. If his friends can take any solace in his passing, it's that he went out a real football guy right to the very end.
"Even though he was in his 80s, he was a healthy 80," Staubach said. "We're going to miss the heck out of him. But if Steve had a plan on how he wanted to leave, he wasn't the type you were going to see in a nursing home. Watching football, that's probably the way he would have chosen."
Funeral at Naval Academy
A funeral service will be held tomorrow for Steve Belichick at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Md. The burial will be at the Naval Academy Cemetery.
The Belichick family will receive friends and honor the former Navy assistant football coach today at a funeral home in Annapolis, Md.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Steve Belichick Scholarship Fund, which rewards student-athletes at Struthers (Ohio) High School. Donations can be sent to: Steve Belichick Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 715, Foxboro, MA 02035.
Hostile
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I have no doubt that ND was Staubach's favorite team because as was already stated he is a very devout Catholic and it is the pre-eminent Catholic college in America. However, I seriously doubt he would have played there over Navy. He attended New Mexico Military Institute which is a prep school for the Service Academies. I believe a Military career was always a top goal of his.
Had he gone to ND, not a doubt in my mind he would have multiple Heisman trophies. He was that good.
Had he gone to ND, not a doubt in my mind he would have multiple Heisman trophies. He was that good.
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Actually back then it was tradition that if a player won the Heisman as a Jr, he was not nominated as a senior. It always ticked me off about Archie Griffen being the only 2 time winner when there were many BETTER players that never got a second due to tradition.
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NAVY!!!!
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Hostile;1742486 said:
Roger said himself he wanted to go to ND. He said it was his #1 choice, but that they didn't recruit him till after he signed and committed to Navy.
Read the book "Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes". Not sure what page number, but it's about the middle of the book.