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People on the forum suggest HCDM's style is 'anti-player', and that players 'are all intimidated by him'.
Keeping with my previous ESPN program reference please note:
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_Boys
The Junction Boys is the name given to the “survivors” of Paul “Bear” Bryant’s 10 day summer football camp in Junction, Texas beginning September 1, 1954. The ordeal has achieved legendary status and has become the subject of a 2001 book The Junction Boys[1] by Jim Dent and a television movie produced by ESPN.
Although the "survivors", as they came to be called, were mentally tougher after the experience, this new strength did not translate into immediate success on the field. In 1954, Texas A&M won only one game against nine losses, the only losing season in Bryant's 38 years as a head coach.
In 1955 Texas A&M went 7-2-1, and in 1956, the team went 9-0-1 and won the Southwest Conference.
Many of the Junction Boys went on to great success in various fields after college. Jack Pardee and Gene Stallings would go on to become head coaches in the NFL. Pardee was a two-time All-Pro with the Los Angeles Rams (1963) and the Washington Redskins (1971). Stallings would also become the head coach of Texas A&M and later took over Bryant's Alabama Crimson Tide and won a national championship in 1992.
GO ORANGE !
Keeping with my previous ESPN program reference please note:
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_Boys
The Junction Boys is the name given to the “survivors” of Paul “Bear” Bryant’s 10 day summer football camp in Junction, Texas beginning September 1, 1954. The ordeal has achieved legendary status and has become the subject of a 2001 book The Junction Boys[1] by Jim Dent and a television movie produced by ESPN.
Although the "survivors", as they came to be called, were mentally tougher after the experience, this new strength did not translate into immediate success on the field. In 1954, Texas A&M won only one game against nine losses, the only losing season in Bryant's 38 years as a head coach.
In 1955 Texas A&M went 7-2-1, and in 1956, the team went 9-0-1 and won the Southwest Conference.
Many of the Junction Boys went on to great success in various fields after college. Jack Pardee and Gene Stallings would go on to become head coaches in the NFL. Pardee was a two-time All-Pro with the Los Angeles Rams (1963) and the Washington Redskins (1971). Stallings would also become the head coach of Texas A&M and later took over Bryant's Alabama Crimson Tide and won a national championship in 1992.
GO ORANGE !
