[stupac2]

Thanks for this, Hank! Really awesome, although I'm sure OF will be devastated by the tackle news.

"No, but I can tell you the most overmatched I've ever felt -- USC in 2009."

2007?

Finally, I asked him to look ahead to thirty years from now when he's retired and think about what he'd miss the most about the job -- coaching in a big game, running out of the tunnel, looking at film -- he said it would be the people. He talked about how much he loves talking to the kids, creating and maintaining relationships that last for years. He talked about getting phone calls from parents of kids who graduated years ago, just to catch up. It kind of underscored something I've felt for a while. I don't want this to sound like I'm comparing myself to Coach Shaw and what he does, but I tell people this all the time when I'm talking about what it's like to coach middle school basketball. What people see is a game once a week, but that's a relatively small percentage of what a team does, and the bonds that are formed during practice and team meetings last a lot longer than the season does. I've heard Kentucky's Coach Calipari talk about this. It's easy to be critical of Coach Cal, but I don't doubt the love he has for his players. In that sense, Coach Shaw seems to be similar.

Also a reason to think we're going to keep him for a long time, he's not talking about his NFL players calling him up.

[stupac2]

Thanks for this, Hank! Really awesome, although I'm sure OF will be devastated by the tackle news.

"No, but I can tell you the most overmatched I've ever felt -- USC in 2009."

2007?

Finally, I asked him to look ahead to thirty years from now when he's retired and think about what he'd miss the most about the job -- coaching in a big game, running out of the tunnel, looking at film -- he said it would be the people. He talked about how much he loves talking to the kids, creating and maintaining relationships that last for years. He talked about getting phone calls from parents of kids who graduated years ago, just to catch up. It kind of underscored something I've felt for a while. I don't want this to sound like I'm comparing myself to Coach Shaw and what he does, but I tell people this all the time when I'm talking about what it's like to coach middle school basketball. What people see is a game once a week, but that's a relatively small percentage of what a team does, and the bonds that are formed during practice and team meetings last a lot longer than the season does. I've heard Kentucky's Coach Calipari talk about this. It's easy to be critical of Coach Cal, but I don't doubt the love he has for his players. In that sense, Coach Shaw seems to be similar.

Also a reason to think we're going to keep him for a long time, he's not talking about his NFL players calling him up.