Tampa
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Post by Tampa on Mar 3, 2010 11:28:42 GMT -6
Say it ain't so Outlaw Josey Wales.
Enjoy, you deserve it!
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Post by blb on Mar 3, 2010 11:40:40 GMT -6
Now he'll have MORE time to be on Coach Huey.com!!
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Post by superpower on Mar 3, 2010 11:55:03 GMT -6
Wow! What a loss to the kids at his school. I have never met him in person, but exchanging ideas here and via email (and one cell phone call in the middle of the summer) has given me a great respect for OJW. He is a class act and a brilliant coach.
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Post by superpower on Mar 3, 2010 11:57:01 GMT -6
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crl
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Pick me , pick me... I want to be on the RNC location scout team.
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Post by crl on Mar 3, 2010 12:06:15 GMT -6
OJW, they are saying it like your dead, retired? We will see... the smell of fresh cut grass in August does something to an ex coach.
Best of luck
CRL
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Mar 3, 2010 13:17:55 GMT -6
I can believe y'all found me, I thought I could sneak out the back and nobody would know.
Now, not only that, you see what I look like and that is really bad.
Y'all probably thought that I was a handsome young Tom Selleck look-a-like, now everybody knows that I'm just some old guy.
Tampa, look forward to being able to drop by down there and actually learn something about defense. Look forward to it.
You gonna' go down to USF Spring this year?
I've had a great time, just need a little time off I think.
Hey, maybe I can do one of those coach Meyer retirements, what ya' think? I already feel better.
OJW
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Post by coachorr on Mar 3, 2010 13:20:21 GMT -6
Man, that is huge.
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Post by coachguy83 on Mar 3, 2010 14:07:40 GMT -6
Congrats OJW
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Post by phantom on Mar 3, 2010 14:45:03 GMT -6
Congratulations. Retired at 53, though? What are you going to do, play scratch-offs and hit the Early Bird before the reruns of Matlock come on?
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Post by dubber on Mar 3, 2010 15:16:23 GMT -6
I can believe y'all found me, I thought I could sneak out the back and nobody would know. Now, not only that, you see what I look like and that is really bad. Y'all probably thought that I was a handsome young Tom Selleck look-a-like, now everybody knows that I'm just some old guy. Tampa, look forward to being able to drop by down there and actually learn something about defense. Look forward to it. You gonna' go down to USF Spring this year? I've had a great time, just need a little time off I think. Hey, maybe I can do one of those coach Meyer retirements, what ya' think? I already feel better. OJW Who is Tom Selleck?  Congrats.......you'll be back at it in 2011 |
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Post by coachweav88 on Mar 3, 2010 15:20:57 GMT -6
congrats, OJW. I've enjoyed talking to you via PM as well. Your 10-0 story is very inspiring to me. When you get the "itch" again, you can always come up to Ohio, we'll have room for you here |
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Post by coachorr on Mar 3, 2010 15:31:01 GMT -6
"Sure ya do, say goodbye to me, go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that spirit from her and don't look back. Live every second, live right on through to the end. Live Wyatt, live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend... if ya ever had even the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now, leave now... please. "
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Post by hlb2 on Mar 3, 2010 16:19:03 GMT -6
Could head south, near the lake, we need ya!
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Post by jgordon1 on Mar 3, 2010 17:28:42 GMT -6
Granny. there goes OJW ridin off into the sunset...good luck in future endeavors..can't see ya sitting still
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Mar 3, 2010 17:34:25 GMT -6
Sounds like a whole lot of doodly if you ask me.  |
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Post by airtrafficcontrol on Mar 3, 2010 18:13:54 GMT -6
enjoy the reitirement coach,you've earned the chance to rewind!
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Post by unc31 on Mar 3, 2010 18:18:52 GMT -6
Coach, seriously, if you do come to NC this fall please give me a heads up and we would love to have you come to a game. I am in the MOST PREMIUM area in NC for tourists coming to see the changing of the leaves. Your wife will love it and may not let you leave. In that case we might have to find you a job here.
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Post by mariner42 on Mar 3, 2010 21:40:26 GMT -6
Y'know, the left coast has remarkable restorative powers.
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Post by mhcoach on Mar 4, 2010 7:29:57 GMT -6
Congrats, enjoy the time. I'm sure you will be back soon!!
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Post by John Knight on Mar 4, 2010 9:14:16 GMT -6
Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?
I say that big talk's worth doodly-squat.
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Post by Wingtman on Mar 4, 2010 9:22:18 GMT -6
Once a coach, always a coach.
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Post by coachorr on Mar 4, 2010 10:18:06 GMT -6
Nothing like losing to foster the seeds of retirement. I have gone 5-39 in the last two years since dropping down to the Junior High Level. I thought I could coach my way to success and that in the end it would be a benefit to coach in the same school I work at. All I know, is nothing makes you want to turn it in like a losing season.
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Post by gunrun on Mar 4, 2010 10:27:14 GMT -6
OJW,
Thanks for all your help over the years answering questions and sharing your wisdom on this board. Best of luck to you.
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 4, 2010 10:42:48 GMT -6
Good luck in your retirement, and good luck in finding something to do with all your spare time. Maybe you can just prowl around here and help us out a little.
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Post by jgordon1 on Mar 4, 2010 11:15:01 GMT -6
What's that writing in your hat
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Post by dblwngr on Mar 4, 2010 11:45:26 GMT -6
Thanks for all the 4-3 over/under input, I've learned a TON from your posts.
You should write a book with your time off.....................then get back to work on the field when your done!! ;D
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Mar 4, 2010 12:41:37 GMT -6
JG,
I was wondering if anybody would see that.
Another odd story-like me life.
It is an autograph from Tommy Tuberville. Here's the odd part. I got to see him at USF's spring football clinic in Tampa. After it was over, I went to talk to him and he thought I was an autograph hound. Well, I didn't have anything but my royal blue HCA hat, and he wrote War Eagle Tommy Tuberville in it.
Cool, except for the fact that he wasn't the coach at Auburn anymore, he has been fired months before.
So, I guess in a wierd way, I was his last Auburn autograph, I'm an Auburn alumnus.
Coach Tuberville autographed my best game hat and on our photo day I grabbed the wrong hat when I went to school. I didn't realize it until I saw it in the paper a week later, just crazy.
Speaking of Coach Tuberville.
Great clinic last Spring at USF, Coach Tuberville went over the 4-3 defense nearly exactly the same way that he showed it to me in the late 80's. It was really cool to get a kinda' book-end feeling about the 4-3 defense. It was almost exactly the same presentation, I was smiling the entire time, as it felt like a time warp. His presentation of the 4-3 changed everything for me in the late 80's. It was crazy radical stuff back then.
Now, Coach Tuberville is at Texas Tech and Jim Leavitt is fired, Coach Bowden and Coach Mickey Andrews are retired.
These men had a huge influence on my coaching.
OJW
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Post by Coach JR on Mar 4, 2010 13:18:30 GMT -6
OJW,
Hope you enjoy your retirment. Maybe we could meet up one day in Auburn at a game if you ever get up this way. I appreciate the 4-3 you turned me on to as well. Thanks, and War Eagle.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2010 13:34:02 GMT -6
OJW, will be drinking a cool one to celebrate, enjoy the time off!
Duece
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Post by thakatalyst on Mar 4, 2010 14:19:39 GMT -6
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