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SALT LAKE CITY — On a winter night in 1988, as he drove down the hill from his home to the Salt Palace, Frank Layden quit.
“By the way,” he told his wife Barbara, “this is my last game.”
The head coach of the Utah Jazz was resigning midseason.
“You pay a big price,” Layden told UPI. “The sleepless nights, the pressure. It eats you alive.”
He, more than most, can sympathize with Gary Andersen’s resignation as coach of Oregon State’s football team. But Andersen’s story is a step removed from Layden’s, if for no other reason than he walked away from $12.