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Bobby Bowden Letter

TopFrog

TopFrog

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FroginBedford68 said:
Plus the top tier executive didn't want to spend money on athletics....
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And that person would be at the games, sitting there like a bump on an elephant's ass, watching us getting trampled and attendance and interest at the lowest of lows and talks of moving to DII or disbanding football altogether. And he did nothing. He did build the endowment which is what TCU would finally begin to use once he and a certain AD were gone. Thanks to that and a miracle hire of Fran who brought GP we rose like Lazarus from the dead --- or at least from the terminally ill.
 
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SW toad

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PurplFrawg said:
What about, "Report in top phyiscal condition?" Opening sentence.
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How about "Fat People will be left behind in their tracks" OR

"No hair sticking out in the front of your helmet or flaring out below the back rim of your helmet"

Bowden idolized Paul Bryant for his accomplishments and was very discreet about it. Bowden from Birmingham AL where Bear Bryant was buried, employed many of the same tactics in Pre- fall football camps that focused on increasing lean body mass. Of Course, Bowden believed in constant and regular hydration of players.
 
tjcoffice

tjcoffice

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PurpleBlood87 said:
Truthfully, there is nothing wrong with Jim Pittman's rules. Pittman had TCU on the right track until that fateful day in Waco. It's possible Pittmam could have turned around TCU's football fortunes or maybe not.
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I heard similar things in the 70s - that Pittman would likely have turned things around.
 
PurplFrawg

PurplFrawg

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SW toad said:
How about "Fat People will be left behind in their tracks" OR

"No hair sticking out in the front of your helmet or flaring out below the back rim of your helmet"

Bowden idolized Paul Bryant for his accomplishments and was very discreet about it. Bowden from Birmingham AL where Bear Bryant was buried, employed many of the same tactics in Pre- fall football camps that focused on increasing lean body mass. Of Course, Bowden believed in constant and regular hydration of players.
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?? We were discussing typos in the letter, not context.
 
TopFrog

TopFrog

Lifelong Frog
PurpleBlood87 said:
Truthfully, there is nothing wrong with Jim Pittman's rules. Pittman had TCU on the right track until that fateful day in Waco. It's possible Pittmam could have turned around TCU's football fortunes or maybe not.
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Fateful evening. I have said it a few times on the board but I was at that game 1971 in Waco and was looking across the field to the TCU sideline and at Coach Pittman when I saw him fall. It was early in the first quarter and between plays -- they were getting the next play in. I thought he had tripped over headset cords or something, but he never got up. I remember saying out loud to my family "Coach Pittman fell."

What most of us in the stadium didn't know was that before the game legendary TCU men's basketball coach Buster Brannon became ill in the press box and the ambulance at the game had taken him to the hospital.

But I remember a feeling going into the Baylor game that we were playing better. Under Tohill the Frogs finished the season strong, going 5-2 in conference and 6-4-1 overall. (The tie was at home against Okie State and what I remember from that game was the longest backwards fumble recovery I have ever seen. That ball must have gone backwards 50 yards with players trying to recover it. Haha).

But what happened that night in Waco -- a game that started in nice weather and ended in a cold rain -- set off a chain of events and poor decisions that put us on a long, dark course for three decades.
 
PurplFrawg

PurplFrawg

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TopFrog said:
What most of us in the stadium didn't know was that before the game legendary TCU men's basketball coach Buster Brannon became ill in the press box and the ambulance at the game had taken him to the hospital.
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As I recall, because the ambulance had taken Buster (or was it Paul Ridings?) to the hospital, they loaded Coach Pittman into Sheriff Lon Evans' patrol car and took him to the hospital that way.
 

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