The man was a brilliant coach. I mean tell me another coach, well other than Lord Saybinz, that could get away with writing this to a recruit without the media excoriating them:
I hope you will share your problems with me, whether it be at home, at the dorm, in your school work, with your teammates, with the coaches, with training regulations, self discipline, or even flying a kite. If you do that, I will try to help you, and if I can't I'll recommend you get a job, join the Army, join the Foreign Legion, but in any event, to reside in another state.
And that's the thing you get out of many stories you hear about Bahr unless you're a typical bammer. If you couldn't help him win, he had not one bit of use for you, and would treat you like dog shit he'd wipe off his shoes. It didn't matter if he (or his coaches) misjudged your abilities, or, as the letter states, he was unable to help you solve a problem causing you to be a liability, you were nothing but a burden to be shed. Sounds like processing has been business as usual in tuscaloser since well before Saybinz.
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