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Post by aceback76 on Apr 16, 2017 11:53:36 GMT -6
Our favorite quote was always this one by "Bear" Bryant. We had a great poster of this (with a fierce looking picture of the "Bear"), autographed by him, on our locker room wall (& also a photo copy in the players' notebooks):
"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high - but so are the rewards".
Paul "Beart" Bryant
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Post by Defcord on Apr 16, 2017 17:17:49 GMT -6
I love most stuff Bear Bryant. Do very many kids even know who he is though?
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Post by natenator on Apr 16, 2017 19:08:09 GMT -6
I love most stuff Bear Bryant. Do very many kids even know who he is though? I bet not many kids know who Andrew Luck is |
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 16, 2017 21:50:09 GMT -6
I would wager there's a bunch of coaches out there that have no idea who Bear Bryant is.
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Post by carookie on Apr 17, 2017 0:22:52 GMT -6
I love most stuff Bear Bryant. Do very many kids even know who he is though? I'd bet most don't know who he is specifically. I would imagine with Saban's recent success though, and the constant comparisons he has received, that more than a few would know he coached at Bama. I'd bet a fair amount of HS football players at least recognize the name as an old time football coach. Regardless, a good quotation or true statement can always stand on its own; thats one thing I like about this website is that its most often about the content of the idea, and not the weight of the name its attached to. |
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Post by blb on Apr 17, 2017 5:18:11 GMT -6
Most HS kids today don't know who Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, Lou Holtz, or Tom Osborne are.
Much less Bear Bryant.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2017 5:21:27 GMT -6
Kids dont have to know who he was as long as the coaching staff gets the message across
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Post by silkyice on Apr 17, 2017 5:28:06 GMT -6
Just run an experiment and ask your guys who Bear Bryant was.
I would wager most know he was a great football coach.
I think/hope most would know he coached at Bama.
Beyond that, doubt they know too much, but not really sure they need to know anymore than the first point anyways.
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Post by blb on Apr 17, 2017 5:54:11 GMT -6
I see things on here misattributed all the time, quotes that have been around for decades ascribed to someone current.
Unless you are risking copyright or intellectual property infringement, if you take an idea - a play or a philosophy - and use it, make it your own. You don't have to justify it by who supposedly said it first.
Good example in these parts is Schembechler telling his first group of Michigan players in 1969 "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions."
I still hear that phrase and always attributed to Bo.
Heck Bo got it from the Bear - it was Chapter 12 title of Bryant's book Building a Championship Football Team (probably came from his 'Junction Boys' days) which was first published in 1960 before Bo was HC at Miami OH much less Michigan.
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Post by s73 on Apr 17, 2017 6:02:09 GMT -6
I hear quotes all the time from people, not just former coaches, and I have no idea who they were. But...if the quote is good, I think it gives me something to think about.
If the kids are that interested in who the person is, they can always look it up. This is the "information age after all".
With that said, if it gets the point across then it served its' purpose.
JMO.
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Post by aceback76 on Apr 17, 2017 7:50:05 GMT -6
I love most stuff Bear Bryant. Do very many kids even know who he is though? Yes because there are a lot of people around here that PLAYED for him (we are in "SEC & ACC Country", & he is not forgotten)!. We show OUR kids the movie on his life called "The Bear", & it is very inspirational! PS: We have a poster in the Coaches' Office (with another picture of the "Bear") reminding the Coaches to "tell them once & have them rep it 1,000 times". Here is what that poster says: "SIMPLICITY" "Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words" |
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Post by wolfden12 on Apr 17, 2017 7:57:15 GMT -6
Kids today are more of the moment not the history.
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Post by Defcord on Apr 17, 2017 8:27:45 GMT -6
I love most stuff Bear Bryant. Do very many kids even know who he is though? Yes because there are a lot of people around here that PLAYED for him (we are in "SEC & ACC Country", & he is not forgotten)!. We show OUR kids the movie on his life called "The Bear", & it is very inspirational! PS: We have a poster in the Coaches' Office (with another picture of the "Bear") reminding the Coaches to "tell them once & have them rep it 1,000 times". Here is what that poster says: "SIMPLICITY" "Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words" I am glad to hear this. I will bring up historical figures sometimes and get some weird looks. Good stuff! |
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Post by aceback76 on Apr 17, 2017 8:34:34 GMT -6
IMO having a recall of at least SOME the "history" of the game is important!
Belichick is a Football "Historian". He frequently looks back into the past to come up with ideas. A few years ago - he used a Defensive Game plan he said was from 1991.
EXAMPLE: IF WE see a Wishbone - we go back in our files to 1974, & use the "Okie-Dog-Pinch" ND used to defeat Bama in the 1975 Orange Bowl.
There are coaches on here using offenses (SW, etc.) that are over 100 years old!
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Post by Spread 'em out on Apr 17, 2017 17:19:26 GMT -6
I would say that it largely depends on where you are from. Being from Mississippi (specifically Starkville, an hour from Tuscaloosa) everyone around here knows who Bear Bryant is/was. Now some kids from here might not know much about Tom Osborne or Bill Walsh, where as kids from the Bay area may know Walsh but not Bryant, etc.
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Post by aceback76 on Apr 18, 2017 19:30:17 GMT -6
"THE MAGIC BANK ACCOUNT" - THE AUTHOR IS NOT KNOWN. IT WAS FOUND IN THE BILLFOLD OF COACH PAUL BEAR BRYANT, ALABAMA, AFTER HE DIED IN 1982
The Magic Bank Account
Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400
in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules:
The set of rules:
1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you.
2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.
3. You may only spend it.
4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day.
5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, “Game Over!".
It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.
What would you personally do?
You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the
people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly
spend it all on yourself, right?
You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?
ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL ...
Shocked YES!
Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can't seem to see it.
The PRIZE is *TIME*
1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life.
2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is Not credited to us.
3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost.
4. Yesterday is forever gone.
5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING...
SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?
Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars. Think about it and remember to enjoy
every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.
So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!
Here's wishing you a wonderful and beautiful day. Start “spending”....
"DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLD…!"
SOME PEOPLE DON'T GET THE PRIVILEGE!'
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Post by jg78 on Apr 19, 2017 19:37:20 GMT -6
I don't think The Magic Bank Account is completely accurate because we spend a good portion of nearly every day investing in our future. So in a way you can transfer money into another account. You can make sacrifices today for something better in the future. As football coaches, we probably do that more than most people with all of our offseason work and game week prep.
Saban preaches this point a lot. He likes to say "Invest your time, don't spend it."
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 19, 2017 21:31:30 GMT -6
I got to visit Bear Bryant's home he was born in, in Fordyce, Arkansas. Awesome. They have a stature of the man wrestling a bear, and that is how he got his nickname "Bear". By being the only person around that could wrestle the bear at the county fair and win, or at least not die. I tell stories of Bear Bryant every year and have his quotes all over the locker room and weight room.
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Post by jbutch17 on Apr 20, 2017 10:45:47 GMT -6
Who came up with the $86,400 concept first Bryant or Wooden? Because that has been widely attributed to Wooden.
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