November 26
- Thread starter ohio herd
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Hell, ohio herd, even though his teams were pathetic, Sonny was always entertaining and provided some telling, and sometimes humorous, comments.
Doc, on the other hand, says absolutely NOTHING relevant re: Herd football, and a couple of sentences out of his mouth are a sure cure for insomnia!!!!
There were some stellar years when Charlie Snyder ( the first Snyder to wreck the train) was the head man in the 60's for sure - Sonny...well when we lost under Sonny it was always an interesting description of how and why , kinda like Art Turf. Anyone remember Coach Turf and Inept Tech.
Sonny beat VMI 56-7 in his last game before he was fired. Sonny -- not Stan Parish -- laid the foundation that turned the program around the next season.
The truth is that MU was a few more losing years from dropping football in the SR years. The stadium was condemned, the program was bleeding money, the state (Rockefailure) was openly hostile to not only MU athletics but MU as an institution, and recruiting was pretty much in-state kids WVU didn't want (and we lost some of those to the WVIAC) and kids from wherever with no other options. The management was sounding out moving basketball to the Sun Belt (which at the time was a city oriented basketball league way above the SoCon).
Had the 84 election gone the other way and had SP presided over 2 or 3 more years of losing, MU would have dropped football. Heck, it was a BIG DEAL for which we had to DIG DEEP to come up with the $$ to cover a complete set of new uniforms, which was a pre-condition of most of the coach candidates to interview. (These were Penn State plain because it was all we could afford). The whole department was run out of a cigar box.
Making comparisons of then to now is crazy. We are light years from that.
I liked Sonny. After his tenure he became our local version of Corso. However, he, like Corso, was no coach.
Had the 84 election gone the other way and had SP presided over 2 or 3 more years of losing, MU would have dropped football. Heck, it was a BIG DEAL for which we had to DIG DEEP to come up with the $$ to cover a complete set of new uniforms, which was a pre-condition of most of the coach candidates to interview. (These were Penn State plain because it was all we could afford). The whole department was run out of a cigar box.
Making comparisons of then to now is crazy. We are light years from that.
I liked Sonny. After his tenure he became our local version of Corso. However, he, like Corso, was no coach.
If Sonny Randle were head coach we wouldn't see the dancing on the sideline and throwing players in the air. His teams always hustled. He would stick his foot up their ass!
I went to the Carl Lee "Roast." He said games were easy because practices under Sonny were so hard!
Watching our football team play is almost as entertaining as watching the finally concluded presidential election! Not sure which is worse.
Yea bb but at least the person I was hoping to win won in the election. Our team is sucking badly. Even worse than Hillary.
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