00:09What he inflicted on 6th, 7th, and 8th graders was pretty tough for our little panty waist school.
00:15You're at a very tony private school here in Fort Worth with, you know, I guess you would call it the children of the elite.
00:22Here you had this hardscrabble, school of hard knocks, rough, tough marine colonel who was trying to mold these young men into warriors.
00:33There were times when I thought he was too tough, but as a student, as a kid, you don't know what to do other than just take it.
00:42He made me believe that I'm tough, as tough as a boy, just tough.
00:47As a football coach, he was not an X and O's man, but he knew what it took to win.
00:54And he did stress winning.
00:56We used to huddle up when he'd be giving a talk or at the end of practice, he'd go, winning isn't everything, and we'd all go, it's the only thing.
01:06By his third year, Country Day's middle school football program had become a juggernaut.
01:10It was so direct from him. It was black or white.
01:14He either did it right, good job, or he did it wrong, do it again.
01:18Boy, if you were on the team, you paid a price.
01:21And a lot of the school felt like it had gone a little too far.
01:29When he believed in something, 110%, he wouldn't back down.
01:34His inability to compromise.
01:36That's the age-old battle.
01:38I mean, you stand for something, you stand for nothing.
01:44You realize that there aren't that many people that care about you like that.
01:49If you wanted to win for the guy, you would move mountains to make him happy, to make him proud of you.
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