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In the late 1960s, Patrick Fain Dye was Bear Bryant’s road warrior.
As a recruiter, he was as effective as SEC head coaches Doug Dickey and Vince Dooley — “the 3-D Boys,” Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal sports editor Horace Crowe called them in a November 1967 feature on the SEC’s cutthroat recruiting culture.
He was also one of Bryant’s most trusted scouts.
The Montgomery Advertiser apparently trusted him, too; the paper eventually turned Dye’s scouting reports into a column.
In September 1967, Bryant sent Dye to simultaneously size up ‘Bama’s two biggest rivals.