Another Side of Bobby

[MikeyGriz]

A nice article. Maybe some of you out of state didn't get a chance to see this...…

http://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/university-of-montana/the-other-side-of-bobby-hauck-montana-s-coach-loyal/article_dcb51cec-acff-536f-ba87-e9f03e737b61.html

 

[grizghost]

...what many of us understand is Hauck is hired to do a job and he takes it seriously..his job happens
to be coaching...which is out in the open to see..sometimes you have to make the hard decisions but
at the end of the day he is human..he values relationships..and that's the way it should be!

 

[IdaGriz01]

No surprise to me. Not because I know Hauck, or have ever even met him. (Strictly video and published interviews.) But the reality is that no coach can be successful, long term, unless the players (most of them anyway) believe that he "has their back." He may be brutally tough on them, but he's on their side, sometimes even when they screw up.

I did a post-doc at the University of Alabama during the late Paul "Bear" Bryant era (after he was able to recruit black players, BTW). I made some side money tutoring football players (and other students, so it was not a special benefit). Now, per the movies, Bryant was about as "old school" as you could get for that time ... with brutal practices, scathing critiques of player mistakes, and little in the way of overt praise for good stuff.

Without exception, those players respected and admired "Coach Bryant" (I honestly do not recall them ever referring to his as "Bear"). For all his gruff public demeanor, they knew -- from experience -- that he would be there for them in any crisis ... in football, classes, or their (sometimes horrific) family situation. Based on other articles about coaches, I do not believe he was any kind of exception.