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10
MY
ROUSES
EVERYDAY
SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2017
the
Football
issue
BOBBY:
How did you end up at Miami?
COACH O:
Miami had just won the championship and I was
home, getting ready to go back to Arkansas. I called somebody in
Arkansas to pick me up, and they said, ‘Don’t come, it’s snowing.’ So
I’m sitting around and I think, let me call Bill Johnson. So I called
Miami. Tommy Tuberville answered the phone, and I said, ‘May I
speak to Bill?’ and he said, ‘Bill just got a job
at Louisiana Tech.’ I said, ‘Y’all got a GA
job open?’ He asked me if I wanted it and I
said, ‘Hell yeah.’ I’d met him one time. He
knew me through Bill. Psssssssh, down to
Miami I went. How ’bout that?
BOBBY:
How hard is the transition from
assistant to head coach? Everybody wants to
be a head coach. You should aspire to that.
Now, sometimes, it doesn’t work out like that.
You look at Wade Phillips; he’s Bums son,
he’s an outstanding defensive coordinator, I
think a Hall of Fame defensive coordinator,
but maybe not a head coach. You got the
head coach job at Ole Miss ...
COACH O:
I learned this aggressive, get-after-it style of coaching at
Miami. I brought that to USC and Pete Carroll loved it. And we
had a lot of success with it. I was the hard-ass on the staff. Then I
go to Ole Miss and I try it as head coach. You can’t do it as the head
coach. You can’t coach the quarterback like I coached Warren Sapp.
You can’t coach the wide receiver. But I did. And you can’t coach the
staff like that. It’s just too hard.
[TOP] No. 12 Bobby Hebert, Northwestern State
[LEFT] No. 77 Ed Orgeron, Northwestern State