I'm very excited. This is a great situation for me. I'm back in Alabama. I'm back in the Gulf South Conference. I'm close to Mississippi where I grew up. It's just a perfect situation. I think the timing is everything. It's so important in things that the timing seems to be excellent to come to West Alabama.

So a passing team definitely gives us more problems. It's going to be very difficult because they have so many people who are very skilled at catching the ball and doing something with it.

I've been offered a better job coaching the 0-14 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Each week we've got a chance to make national news because of who we're playing. Any win will be a great one.

We do have four seniors up front that I think are one of the strengths on our team.

I was not mad at all, that didn't bother me one bit. I was in a game where we were up 42-0 at half, then ended up winning 49-42, so only being halftime, there was nothing wrong with what they did. Halftime is way too early for you to stop thinking about scoring.

He's big, he's quick, he's strong. And he's going to be needed (at Wisconsin).

When I met his dad (Chuck), we talked about Toby, but that didn't have any bearing on me hiring him.

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.