Doin' It Old School Dye...

Snaggletiger · « **on:** June 03, 2011, 03:53:15 PM »

Flipping through a Sports Illustrated from a few weeks back and there was an article some of you might have seen on Spring Practices. A lot of exerpts from different teams/coaches but the one on Auburn made me laugh and realize why this man is who he is. It went:

How taxing could spring be on ball players? In 1981, Auburn Coach Pat Dye, upset with what he considered the poor effort and intensity level of his team during the spring game, told his charges to meet him on the Jordan-Hare Stadium field two nights later. "We're gong to play another game" Dye said, "and we're going to find out who wants to play ball next fall".

"That game was a first class blood bath", said Ray Moon, an SEC Official from 1974 through 2001 who worked as a linesman for both those games at Auburn. "Dye locked the doors to that stadium and it was as violent as anything in the spring as I ever saw. If a player got hurt on one side of the field, the coaches would move the ball to the other hashmark and tell the kids to keep playing, even while the injured player was still on the ground. It was vicious."

I would love it if Uncle Sani could ask the Warden to get a little feed back about this from the legendary PFD. War Dye

Saniflush · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2011, 04:00:58 PM »

Have never heard that one. Will pass along to the Warden.

AUTiger1 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2011, 04:13:41 PM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on June 03, 2011, 03:53:15 PM

Flipping through a Sports Illustrated from a few weeks back and there was an article some of you might have seen on Spring Practices. A lot of exerpts from different teams/coaches but the one on Auburn made me laugh and realize why this man is who he is. It went:

How taxing could spring be on ball players? In 1981, Auburn Coach Pat Dye, upset with what he considered the poor effort and intensity level of his team during the spring game, told his charges to meet him on the Jordan-Hare Stadium field two nights later. "We're gong to play another game" Dye said, "and we're going to find out who wants to play ball next fall".

"That game was a first class blood bath", said Ray Moon, an SEC Official from 1974 through 2001 who worked as a linesman for both those games at Auburn. "Dye locked the doors to that stadium and it was as violent as anything in the spring as I ever saw. If a player got hurt on one side of the field, the coaches would move the ball to the other hashmark and tell the kids to keep playing, even while the injured player was still on the ground. It was vicious."

I would love it if Uncle Sani could ask the Warden to get a little feed back about this from the legendary PFD. War Dye

I love "old school" coaches. They were just nasty mean and didn't give a damn.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #3 on:** June 03, 2011, 04:36:48 PM »

Quote from: Saniflush on June 03, 2011, 04:00:58 PM

Have never heard that one. Will pass along to the Warden.

It was a Lars Anderson piece in an issue about a month and a half ago. Good read.

Kaos · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2011, 05:11:00 PM »

Quote from: AUTiger1 on June 03, 2011, 04:13:41 PM

I love "old school" coaches. They were just nasty mean and didn't give a damn.

Times have changed.

When I was playing ball in high school, getting water was the sign of a pussy. Only homos needed water except at the beginning and end of a two hour practice. Feel like you're having a heat stroke? Eat a salt cube, you fucking wuss.

AUTiger1 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 03, 2011, 05:20:57 PM »

Quote from: Kaos on June 03, 2011, 05:11:00 PM

Times have changed.

When I was playing ball in high school, getting water was the sign of a pussy. Only homos needed water except at the beginning and end of a two hour practice. Feel like you're having a heat stroke? Eat a salt cube, you effing wuss.

We got three, before, middle and end. I was talking to a one of my old coaches not long ago and asking him how it was going and he told me "these kids now days are pussies" "y'all were too for the most part, but at least you guys showed some toughness and heart, I wouldn't give two pisses on a fire for these kids." Coach always had a way with words. Every t-shirt he owned had a huge tobacco stain about midway down where the RedMan spit would get all over his whistle and he would spit it out to scream and that is where it would land. You also didn't want to be withing 5 feet of him when blew his whistle b/c you would be covered in tobacco juice. I miss that guy.

AU_Tiger_2000 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 03, 2011, 07:43:42 PM »

Hasn't the AHSAA outlawed "Bull in the Ring"? That was my favorite part of practice.

jmar · « **Reply #7 on:** June 03, 2011, 08:29:50 PM »

Quote from: AU_Tiger_2000 on June 03, 2011, 07:43:42 PM

Hasn't the AHSAA outlawed "Bull in the Ring"? That was my favorite part of practice.

Our pee wee practices were much rougher than high school. I just thought the coaches denied us water so we wouldn't have to pee. Didn't know it was supposed to be torture. Those bastards!

Bryant gets credit for toughness but I've heard Shug was not to be outdone with brutal Spring practices.

The Prowler · « **Reply #8 on:** June 03, 2011, 10:56:33 PM »

We had three water breaks, out water came out of a water hose that never came off the practice field. We'd make the young guys drink first, because that was the nasty warm water. Also, it was bring filtered through a rusty pipe (I know this because one day I found a styrofoam cup, left by the baseball team on the field, and decided to see how clear the water was...huge mistake. That shit was brown with stuff floating in it.) We joked, while we drank, that it was being filtered through the sewage pipes. If that were to happen today? The sickness or even the death toll would be large.

The Prowler · « **Reply #9 on:** June 03, 2011, 11:00:19 PM »

Quote from: Saniflush on June 03, 2011, 04:00:58 PM

Have never heard that one. Will pass along to the Warden.

Screw that...ask greaseybammer what he thinks about that Coach Dye story.

Saniflush · « **Reply #10 on:** June 04, 2011, 06:50:32 AM »

Quote from: The Prowler on June 03, 2011, 11:00:19 PM

Screw that...ask greaseybammer what he thinks about that Coach Dye story.

Maybe he will grace us with his presence.

Jumbo · « **Reply #11 on:** June 04, 2011, 01:17:21 PM »

I used to fuck people up in Bull in the ring.

AU_Tiger_2000 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 04, 2011, 01:46:12 PM »

Quote from: Jumbo on June 04, 2011, 01:17:21 PM

I used to eff people up in Bull in the ring.

I broke a kid's arm. He didn't get turned all the way around and I caught him between the shoulder and elbow on his left side. Wasn't a major fracture but he was out for a while. Ugliest injury I ever saw in practice was kid's arm did a Joe Theisman during "Oklahomas". That went from being the worst part of practice when I was a freshmen in high school to my favorite when I became an upperclassmen. Especially since we were such a small high school and the coach would rotate guys through the defensive side irregardless of the position they played. I would work it so I could just steam roll some tailback who always complained about the blocking when he missed the hole.

Aubie16 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 04, 2011, 01:55:00 PM »

This thread =

Jumbo · « **Reply #14 on:** June 04, 2011, 05:06:38 PM »

Quote from: Aubie16 on June 04, 2011, 01:55:00 PM

This thread =

We'd of won state is they had of put me in.

AU_Tiger_2000 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 04, 2011, 05:10:32 PM »

Quote from: Jumbo on June 04, 2011, 05:06:38 PM

We'd of won state is they had of put me in.

They put me in and we lost state. I coach had only taken me out.

GH2001 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 06, 2011, 09:50:24 AM »

Quote from: Aubie16 on June 04, 2011, 01:55:00 PM

This thread =

What about the shirts they had printed up from that year...

"I survived practice with Coach Dye"

True story.

AuburnChopper 3.0 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 06, 2011, 10:21:43 AM »

Quote from: Aubie16 on June 04, 2011, 01:55:00 PM

This thread =

This x 10.

I hit a guy so hard in practice one day, he exploded. Vaporized. I win.

GH2001 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 06, 2011, 10:26:42 AM »

Quote from: AuburnChopper on June 06, 2011, 10:21:43 AM

This x 10.

I hit a guy so hard in practice one day, he exploded. Vaporized. I win.

I used to throw a pigskin a quarter mile. I could throw a football over them mountains.

War Eagle!!! · « **Reply #19 on:** June 06, 2011, 10:39:03 AM »

Fuck this. I hated bull-in-the-ring or any drill to hit just to hit. I wasn't big or stupid enough to hit just to hit. I would go over the middle with no fear whatsoever and catch a ball, get lit up, and then bounce up...but hit just to hit? No thanks. In college, coaches told me I could get on the field playing kickoff and kick off coverage...no sir. There are a bunch of fucking idiots on the field for special teams...

Now, if I had to hit you, I would hit you...but it's not like I lived for that part of practice...