It’s throwback week here, so we naturally pounced all over this walk down memory lane from USA Today chronicling that time Bear Bryant led Kentucky to its football pinnacle and then took the Texas A&M job. Give it a read: come for the ridiculous salaries ($15,000) and stay for the stark reminders of how different this planet was 65 years ago. Let’s kick over the traces.
“Paul is a comparatively young man in the game. He is a genius as a football strategist and as a leader of boys. He has tremendous enthusiasm and ambition.