Friday, June 3, 2011

Interview With The Coach

Where we learn:

  1. How Coach became interested in Track and Field.
  2. How he ended up at Penn State.
  3. His early coaching influences.
  4. The true purpose of Track and Field.
All delivered in high definition, unedited.  Note that Coach Groves is wearing his original hand-made (by Gary Black) "PSU is 800 U" t-shirt.  I'll have to spring for one of the newer versions!

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7 comments:

  1. MarthaJune 3, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    Very cook seeing Coach Groves live on video.

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  2. Joe ClintonJune 3, 2011 at 8:58 PM

    Thanks for the video! It was deja vu... just like sitting in a van with coach going to a meet or a mountain run. Joe Clinton

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  3. skwilliJune 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM

    @Martha, I agree! I hope to get more captured in HD this year.

    And @Joe, except no one fell out the back door on the way to Beaver Stadium and it didn't burst into flames on the Golf Course! The kids today have no idea what "the van" meant to all of us.

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  4. malmoJune 5, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Thanks, for posting that Dave.

    I didn't know that Anderson had a PR of 1:57 going into that race. Someone must have lit a fire under his ass!

    7:14.65 1987 Penn Relays (Steve Balkey 1:51.5, Mark Anderson 1:49.2, Chris Mills 1:46.1, Ray Levitre 1:47.85)

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  5. skwilliJune 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM

    I have another clip where I asked him about "the dog poop story" but he couldn't remember. I may never hear it now! But I promise to get more videos like this whenever I can. It's not like Coach will run out of stories.

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  6. malmoJune 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    He couldn't remember the dog-poop story? Are you kidding? Gary Schwartz told it when he spoke at Harry's retirement party.

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  7. skwilliJune 6, 2011 at 2:26 PM

    I think I may have video of that speech by Schwartz. The dark recesses of my vault shall be examined! Took me two years to find the Mike Sand's song, this shouldn't take half that!

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