I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.
I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.
I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
When I was in college, I was a landscaper. Other than that, coaching has been my life and my job. A lot of people like coaching college, but I would never do it again. There are too many NCAA bylaws, rules and politics.
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.