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Bear Bryant vs Howard's Rock
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Bear Bryant vs Howard's Rock


May 5, 2014, 10:15 PM

I am reading a biography of the Bear by Keith Dunnavant when I came across an interesting passage:

Shortly before Bryant was offered the Vanderbilt (assistant) job in 1940, he applied for an opening on Frank Howard's staff at Clemson. Even then, Howard could see that Bryant was not a man who worked easily for someone else. His zeal to be a head coach gave him an arrogant, ruthless quality that his peers could see a mile away. Years later, Howard told a coaching colleague, "There was no way I was about to hire Bear. In no time, he'd have slit my throat, drank my blood, and had my job."

It poses an interesting what-if: would you trade the intangibles, passion, and history associated with Frank Howard and, more specifically, Howard's Rock (including the hill) if it meant Bear Bryant made his legacy at Clemson?

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Then we would have been A&M when "momma called"


May 6, 2014, 9:23 AM

he would have still left for Alabama.

and we would have gotten rid of Frank Howard.

Howard was right and it turned out better for Clemson in the long run.

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