Tom O’Brien & Dick Sheridan Get Together For Coaching Clinic

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“It made sense to have Coach Sheridan come back here,” O’Brien said. “He had tremendous success. He did a lot for this university. He did a lot for the players.

“One of the things I found when I started to do some of the Wolfpack Club events during the winter was the tremendous respect and love his former players had for the man.”

O’Brien also had a strong working knowledge of Sheridan’s program from O’Brien’s time as an assistant and offensive coordinator at Virginia under George Welsh. That’s when Sheridan led the Wolfpack to six bowl games in seven years and was a regular contender in the ACC race.

“I always had a tremendous amount of respect for Coach Sheridan and his football teams, the way they played, the way they carried themselves and everything they did,” O’Brien said.

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32 Responses to Tom O’Brien & Dick Sheridan Get Together For Coaching Clinic

  1. class of 74 03/19/2007 at 1:51 PM #

    ^Until that day arrives I have LF’s picture on my dartboard and just love lobbing darts at his head. He makes for such a good target.

  2. noah 03/19/2007 at 2:01 PM #

    “It could possibly be a unity of the team thing, Noah. All the kids look the same and play for each other the same… the “indivuality” of beards and braids takes a back seat.”

    That’s why Sheridan didn’t have names on the jerseys. I always thought the hair thing was sort of like a military-bootcamp type approach…the sort of thing that you do to break someone’s will and to get them to do things without asking questions.

    Dig a hole. Fill it up. Dig another hole. Fill that up.

    Why? Don’t ask. Just do. Dig a hole.

  3. GAWolf 03/19/2007 at 3:17 PM #

    I don’t know Noah. I’m picturing a certain NC State defensive back with braids hanging out his helmet doing the high-stomp-head-bobbing-flying-x-arm-thing after getting burned by a receiver and watching the quarterback over throw them by ten yards…

    I know every kid who has braids/long hair isn’t necessarily a me-first type of kid, but we’ve definitely seen enough of them that are to believe that type of individuality doesn’t really have a productive place on a quality football team.

    AGAIN, I know all generalizations can be deemed irrelevant with an individual example so don’t feel obligated to list the countless All Americans/Pro Bowl players with dreds. Kthx.

  4. GAWolf 03/19/2007 at 3:22 PM #

    I had countless coaches through the years that had the hair rule. I guess it used to be a lot more accepted than it is today with kids being told their superstars in 3rd grade by some dude from Nike.

    I personally have no problem with it. Unless for religious purposes ( I guess) any kid that puts his mullet and/or braids above an opportunity to play at a certain college he truly likes isn’t the type of kid I would want in my program. And that comes from a guy who has a beard and once sported long hair.

  5. choppack1 03/19/2007 at 4:15 PM #

    GA Wolf – I see your point. However, I think I saw some of those braids being worn by Florida Gators, NE Patriotrs, Indy Colts, etc…Even though he coached 15-20 years ago, that was ages ago. When Sheridan was here, long hair and tats weren’t as commonplace as they are now.

    I’ll trust TOB to field his teams w/ his own rule. I also wonder what kind of rules Sheridan would have if he were coaching today. I imagine he’d still have the cursing rule, but I imagine he’d yield on the hair thing.

  6. noah 03/19/2007 at 4:24 PM #

    You know what problem I have with endzone celebrations? It negates the play of the other 10 guys on the field. Let’s say a DB makes a big interception. Okay, great play. But did that happen because of the DL or linebackers putting pressure on the QB? Did it happen because the safeties and other corners were negating their men?

    Big runs happen because of great blocking. Same with long passes.

    I don’t mind being happy and exuberant when something good happens, but the choreographed moves rob the attention from the people who allowed you to be successful. It lessens their efforts and adds nothing to what you’ve accomplished.

  7. class of 74 03/20/2007 at 7:31 AM #

    ^You are right, it is a team sport not an individual sport. As great as MJ was who would he have beaten without Pippen, Cartwright, Grant etc. on his team.
    Or our own DT without TB, as in ’73 and ’74 vs. ’75. Great players are stars, and receive too much worship but it takes teams to win a championships. Like Roy Williams said ” I could not tell you who the leading scorers were in 2005 or 2006 but I know who won the championships those years, UNC and Florida.”

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