SUNSET & EVENING STAR
AND ONE CLEAR CALL FOR ME
MAY THERE BE NO MOANING OF THE BAR
WHEN I PUT OUT TO SEA
ALFRED TENNYSON
Tommy Harrison was a coaching lifer . Coach Tommy coached somewhere in Shelby County for the last 50 years .
JFK was a rookie president when Tommy began at MCHS in 1961. Coach Harrison was so versatile . He was capable of a Championship job in multiple sports .
Tommy loved to study & talk football . He would research a concept until he mastered it . I really enjoyed talking football with Coach Harrison.
Tommy could have been the greatest recruiting coordinator in the history of college football . Coach knew everything about every player . The parents, the girlfriend , family history , & summer job .The amount of information Coach Harrison had was amazing .
Coach Harrison also found his calling in his talk show on Radio 56. He gave more insider info than any show on the air . Tommy knew the inside low down .
I will miss discussing the TRIPLE - I & Coach Harrison's theory of Inside Contain & Outside Contain . I believed he was on target with his Triple - I thinking but was full of it when it came to that IC & OC stuff .
Coach Tommy was a coach's coach . Any job he did was first class . He maintained that standard for 50 years .
Coach Harrison will be greatly missed but will live on in the lives he touched .
***** I am thankful Eli Manning only has 12 stitches. When you lose your helmet in mid- play , bad bad things can occur .
Still no word from Favre . Surely within the week Brett will say .
THANK YOU FOR READING !!!
I was so sad to hear of his passing. He was a great teacher in the classroom as well. You're right, he really did make the extra effort to get to know each one of his students, and not just the athletes.
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