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Howard Schnellenberger learned his trade from two of the all-time greats, Paul "Bear" Bryant and Don Shula. He served as offensive coordinator while helping Alabama and Bryant claim three national championships. His early career also included serving as offensive coordinator for Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins in 1972 during the only perfect season in JFL history.Schnellenberger then took the football torch that was passed to him and became a transformative head coach at three universities. Schnellenberger's career has brought him into combat alongside or across the field from many of the greats. His high school teammate was the future Heisman Trophy winner and Green Bay Packer star Paul Hornung. He later recruited or coached Joe Namath, Kenny Stabler, Jim Kelly, Bernie Kosar, Vinny Testaverde, Bert Jones, Roman Gabriel, Bob Griese and Earl Morrall, and sent more than 100 college stars on to professional football careers.For all his personal triumphs, there have also been instances of crashing and burning. The coach talks about the wise decisions and the poor decisions he has made, and he shares the lessons he learned along the way. His stories about his players and the secrets to his remarkable success are the subject of this memoir.

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Publié par	Ascend Books
Date de parution	15 août 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780991275687
Langue	English
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PASSING THE TORCH
Building Winning Football Programs … with a Dose of Swagger Along the Way
“Of all the coaches I’ve known, Howard is the closest I’ve seen to being like Bryant. There’s a reverence about him. Kids can’t help but give their best for him. He builds a great aura of confidence.”
– Bobby Bowden , Florida State head coach 1976-2009
“He took something from all the great coaches. He has a lot of charisma. He walks into a room and you know he’s there. He has the ability to inspire. I can see him as a great general or a top CEO. He can look people in the eye and make them think this endeavor is the most important thing in the world. He can pull that off.”
– Billy Reed , Lexington Herald sports editor
“Howard was like our dad; he was always looking after us. He was the boss. We looked up to him. He was like a 25-year-old as a senior in high school. He had a coach’s mentality even then.”
– Paul Hornung , teammate at Flaget High School, Heisman Trophy winner at Notre Dame and nine-year NFL veteran
“He was a classroom teacher and game planner. He showed us various blocking schemes. He used the chalkboard. He was very knowledgeable about who to match up with on the opposing side and what you needed to do to have the best opportunity to run the ball and to pass the ball.”
– Lee Roy Jordan , two-way player at Alabama and Dallas Cowboys linebacker for 14 years
“Coach Schnellenberger took me under his wing. He worked with me on meeting organization and meeting presentation. He took me through the whole process of how he did things. He helped me with grading the players on their performance. He helped me with technical things. He was like a graduate professor of X’s and O’s to me.”
– Dick Vermeil , assistant coach in L.A. and head coach of Philadelphia, St. Louis and Kansas City teams
“Howard Schnellenberger was always about calling the right play at the right time and that was right up my alley offensively. I didn’t call plays in college and when I got to Miami, I’d call a play and it had no meaning; it was rag-tag. Schnellenberger picked up on this. We would study film together and he would have me work on checking things off at the line.”
– Bob Griese , Dolphins quarterback for 14 years
“Howard came in and was the first true coach I had who understood receiver play. Everything I was learning up to that point was from other players. He solidified what I was doing and instilled a work ethic. He pushed us to be better athletes.”
– Nat Moore , Dolphins receiver and 13-year NFL veteran
“He is always thinking how to handle the game, how to work it. He knows how to get young men to believe in themselves. He doesn’t leave any stones unturned. He finds the right way.”
– Earl Morrall , Dolphins quarterback during 21-year NFL career and assistant coach at University of Miami
“He wasn’t just offense. He knew defense. Execution was the main thing. He understood physical mistakes, but he would not tolerate mental mistakes on where you were supposed to be in a defense or in your assignment. He would chide me for lining up inside on the split formation. He was big on special teams, too. Special teams were a big part of his game.”
– Ted Hendricks , Baltimore linebacker and 15-year NFL player
“I was one of the first quarterbacks who started Quarterback U. And the reason I stayed at the University of Miami was Howard Schnellenberger. He is a class individual. When many guys are growing up in high school, they are All-Americans or All Everything. But they need coaching. I needed this man to settle me down. He was like my mom and my dad.”
– Jim Kelly , University of Miami quarterback who played 11 years with the Buffalo Bills
“Howard Schnellenberger was my mentor, my coach, my father figure. He taught me to know the system, to take command of an offense and audible into the right call. I assumed that was how it was everywhere, but it wasn’t. It got me a national championship and into the NFL.”
– Bernie Kosar , University of Miami quarterback and 12-year NFL veteran
“When we held up four fingers it meant something. He made us brothers in pain. At times you were just trying to survive. His idea was to push us as far as possible and not break us. It wasn’t enough to run gassers, then we’d run Super Bowl gassers. You think you can’t do any more and then you hear coach saying “On the line” and you’d do it all over again.”
– Browning Nagle , Louisville quarterback who played in the NFL for five years
“When I got to the NFL, I was on teams with players from Florida, Alabama and USC. They didn’t always transition well to the NFL. They were on such good teams that their issues were hidden. A guy from Louisville getting an NFL tryout was better equipped mentally and physically than they were. My work ethic was better than theirs. They hadn’t had to push themselves.”
– Roman Oben , Louisville offensive lineman who played 10 seasons in the NFL
PASSING THE TORCH
Building Winning Football Programs … with a Dose of Swagger Along the Way
HOWARD SCHNELLENBERGER
with Ron Smith Foreword by Don Shula
Copyright © 2014 by Howard Schnellenberger
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
D EDICATION
Foreword
G AME B ALL P RESENTED B Y D ON S HULA
Chapter 1
T HE L EARNING T REE
Chapter 2
R ECRUITING J OE N AMATH
Chapter 3
C RIMSON T SUNAMI
Chapter 4
G OING P ROFESSIONAL
Chapter 5
P ERFECTION
Chapter 6
S TANDING U P
Chapter 7
B UILDING S WAGGER A T T HE U
Chapter 8
C OWBOY W ITHOUT A H ORSE
Chapter 9
M Y O LD K ENTUCKY H OME
Chapter 10
O KLAHOMA I NNUENDO
Chapter 11
M Y L AST H URRAH
Chapter 12
R ECRUITING A S A N A RT F ORM
Chapter 13
M Y L AST P RESS C ONFERENCE (M AYBE )
Appendix 1
H OWARD S CHNELLENBERGER’S P IPELINE T O T HE P ROS
Appendix 2
T HE S CHNELLENBERGER R ECORD
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A BOUT T HE A UTHORS

DEDICATION
My role as head coach for five teams was to choose the best assistant coaches and then coach the assistant coaches. I did my best work in selecting my chief assistant, my wife, Beverlee, who supported me through every minute of my coaching career. Beverlee was a very seasoned and outstanding coach’s wife. I really considered her an assistant head coach. She understands the game of football, especially the challenges of the college game: the demands of the recruiting process and developing fan support. And she knows the importance of being a mother away from home for players. She understood my requirements from a time and commitment standpoint. She has been an absolute companion and help throughout the years. In order to be comfortable putting so much time in as a coach, you have to feel good about how things are at home. Beverlee has been mother and father, counselor, accountant, banker, mechanic, cook and housekeeper, and she has done it all in a loving way that allowed me to be free to do my thing in football without feeling bad about time spent on the job. I want to dedicate this book to my beautiful wife, who also successfully raised three wonderful boys, Stuart, Stephen and Timothy.
FOREWORD
GAME BALL PRESENTED BY DON SHULA
After a lifetime of coaching football I am more comfortable giving out game balls than I am offering a toast or writing a foreword to someone’s book. If I were to present a game ball to Howard Schnellenberger here at the end of his hugely successful career, it would be for doing things the right way—for teaching and coaching the way it should be done. Howard had success in the NFL with the Rams and the Dolphins, but his greatest accomplishment is building up three communities and three college football programs, and he did it while playing by the rules.
We got to know each other while working as assistant coaches on Blanton Collier’s University of Kentucky team in 1959. It was the first year of married life for each of us and we were very close. We spent a lot of time on the road together recruiting. Mostly we were just two young, dedicated guys trying to learn all we could. I left after that season to start my NFL coaching career in Detroit and then became head coach in Baltimore at age 33. I followed Howard’s career as he stayed in Kentucky for two years, had a great run at Alabama with Bear Bryant and then joined