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00:00 So speaking of dynasties, you know, you're, you're, you, you created a dynasty.
00:07 Oh, no, no.
00:08 There's another Hulk.
00:09 That's, that's Skip in Birmingham.
00:11 So there, there, how about, how about being proud of your, your son?
00:16 You know, not only at East Carolina and South Florida at Louisiana Tech, but, but also with
00:20 the Stallions that, that, that, that team, you know, relative to the USFL.
00:26 And now he has a title of temporary special assistant at my alma mater, Northwestern.
00:30 What is that?
00:31 What is a temporary special assistant?
00:32 Well, I talked to him yesterday.
00:34 He doesn't have anything to do with the team on the field.
00:36 Oh, go ahead.
00:37 He's a head coach, had never been a head coach.
00:40 He's never a defense coordinator or major in school.
00:44 And Skip talked to him about recruiting, about organization practice, things along that line.
00:49 I think he could help the team if he was on the field and coached, because he is an excellent
00:53 coach.
00:54 I talked to him today, but he came into my office, said, "Dad, I want to be a coach."
01:00 I said, "We didn't send you to learn how to be a coach."
01:02 I said, "It's the universe of a company to take care of me."
01:07 I said, "Have you told your mom yet?"
01:08 He said, "No."
01:09 I said, "Well, make sure she's unarmed when you do, because she'll shoot you."
01:14 But he wanted to go into coaching.
01:16 So I wrote five different coaches.
01:18 One of them was Tom Osborne.
01:20 One of them was Bobby Bowden at Florida State, about a graduate assistant for him.
01:25 And Bobby Bowden hired him at Florida State, and they had great success there.
01:30 He just is great with people.
01:34 I've known him most of his life.
01:35 He's the most positive person I've ever been around.
01:37 He's always upbeat, et cetera, and gets along well with everybody.
01:42 I'm very proud of him, but I'm proud of also our other three children as well.
01:46 They all graduated from college and married and are happily married, and that's all you
01:51 can do.
01:52 I don't care what you accomplish in this world.
01:55 If you aren't successful as a husband and a father, you fail.
02:00 I always felt that that was the most important role I had, was to be a good father and a
02:05 good husband.
02:06 Well, of course, that's a very important world to live by.
02:10 He is magnanimous, intelligent, entrepreneurial, and he gets along with people.
02:14 Boy, I wonder where he got that from.
02:16 So when he hired a Connecticut for his first job, Lou Perkins said, "We got the best of
02:22 both worlds.
02:23 We got his father's football mind and his mother's personality."
02:26 And there's a lot of truth to that.
02:28 There you go.
02:29 When he calls you and you guys talk, is it advice?
02:32 Is it play calls?
02:34 Is it life?
02:35 Is it a mixture of everything?
02:37 Well, I have several coaches call me from time to time, and I always say the same things
02:43 I do to my son.
02:44 I'm never going to give you advice.
02:46 I'm going to give you an opinion.
02:49 Opinion says, "This is what I feel, and here's what I feel.
02:51 When I did it this way, we won.
02:53 When I did it that way, we lost."
02:54 That's my opinion.
02:55 Now, advice says, "You ought to do this."
02:58 I never give advice.
03:00 They got to live their own life.
03:02 They got to make their own choices, but I will give them all the best opinion I can
03:07 give them, an honest one.
03:09 (Music)
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