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    Buckeye Wisdom: Insight & Inspiration from Coach Earle Bruce
    Buckeye Wisdom: Insight & Inspiration from Coach Earle Bruce
    Buckeye Wisdom: Insight & Inspiration from Coach Earle Bruce
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    Buckeye Wisdom: Insight & Inspiration from Coach Earle Bruce

    By Earle Bruce

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    The name Earle Bruce means football to many generations of Ohio State fans. A coach for more than 40 years, Earle’s winning touch and talent for inspiration have characterized his entire life. In Buckeye Wisdom: Insight & Inspiration from Earle Bruce, the beloved coach shares his humor, wisdom, passion, and spirit—including stories from his time on the Buckeyes sideline. This new edition includes additional memories of Woody Hayes and tales about young coaches he mentored, including Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, and Pete Carroll.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTriumph Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2014
    ISBN9781633191525
    Buckeye Wisdom: Insight & Inspiration from Coach Earle Bruce

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      Buckeye Wisdom - Earle Bruce

      * * *

      Teacher,

      When I think of my Grandpa, I think of the word hero.

      He is clever and gutsy.

      I think of people I look up to, and each of them go back to him.

      Chris Spielman, Greg Frey, all go back to him.

      He coached them all and they coach me.

      I think he is a great coach, and because of that, so are they.

      And because of that, I am achieving what I strive for.

      By Zach Smith, grandson of Earle Bruce and wide receivers coach at Ohio State University

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      1. On Winning and Losing

      2. On Football

      3. On Assistant Coaching

      4. On Coaching

      5. On Success

      6. On Teamwork

      Acknowledgments

      Coaching for forty-three years was a lot of fun and very little work. It was the people I associated with that made it that way—assistant coaches, players, secretaries, trainers, equipment people, and all the others connected to the game of football.

      In coaching high school teams, I had the opportunity to influence young men and motivate them to much greater heights than they had ever imagined achieving. The quality of high school coaching when I was an assistant and head coach was unbelievable. I was an assistant to Bill Peterson (later head coach at Florida State University and the Houston Oilers) and Bob McNea (later assistant coach at Northwestern and Kent State University). They both taught me about football, relationships with players, and motivation. As a high school coach, I spoke at many football clinics and interacted with many fine high school coaches, namely: Bob Seaman, Sandusky, Massillon, and Worthington High Schools; Pat Mancuso, Leetonia and Princeton High Schools; and Tony Munafo, Huron High School. Bron Bacevich from Cincinnati Roger Bacon, who I affectionately called Old Man, was a coach who really contributed to my speechmaking and motivational material. What a coach, what a person, what a great human being. He worked at the game and was a fine coach for seventy years at Roger Bacon. His record of 311 victories is only surpassed by his success in the personal relationships he had with his players.

      When I arrived at Ohio State University as an assistant coach, I met Glenn Tiger Ellison, then a freshman coach. He not only provided me with the Big John story, but with many others. He was a master of motivation and success to coaches and all professionals. He was always positive and exciting to be around.

      I hope you get the idea that this book reflects many years of being around good people with great written and oral thoughts on football and life. Some thoughts have unknown sources, but are common thoughts-for-the-day. I don’t want credit for originality, I only want credit for using such great material for the book.

      Thanks for the material and thanks to all the great contributors of this book.

      1. On Winning and Losing

      The game (football) has become the symbol of our country’s best qualities . . . courage, stamina, coordinated efficiency. Many believe in these days of doubt and indecision that through this sport we can best keep alive the spirit of reality and enterprise which has made us great. Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory.

      —General Douglas MacArthur

      * * *

      Success in football is in direct proportion to how your great football players play in the big games—and how your others rise to the occasion. Great players always play well in big games and make big plays. They meet the challenge, and then some. Let’s all remember that the opponents we play have great players—let’s give them credit for their plays. We all recognize great effort, desire, great teamwork, and great coaching during the game. Don’t bring up the negative or the adverse plays or criticize individual players or coaches. Remember to criticize the performance, not the performer. Mistakes do happen and they are tough to accept, but mistakes are accentuated more when you lose. The next game is the most important game, not the last game.

      * * *

      One Way To Win

      After a losing game, it is tough to prepare for the next opponent. There is always too much talk about the lost game. But if you really think about winning, there is only One Way To Win.

      It takes a little courage And a little self control, And some grim determination

      If you want to reach the goal.

      It takes a deal of striving,

      And a firm and stern set chin,

      No matter what the battle

      If you really want to win.

      There is no easy path to glory,

      There’s no rosy road to fame.

      Football, however we may view it

      Is no simple parlor game.

      But its prizes call for fighting,

      For endurance and for grit,

      For a rugged disposition

      And a "don’t

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