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| Posted by: KrazyKoalaBears
- [15023167] Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 16:15
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As someone who just finished "The Blind Side," it's clear that he'll have an everlasting influence on the game. |
| | | 1 | Toral
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Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 18:51
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Bill will be regarded as the greatest coach of all time, considering the influence he has had as a teacher and developer of future leaders..
On a purely personal note, my favourite coaches are 1. Marv Levy; 2. Bill Walsh. Before reading this story I had no idea that Marv had hired Bill to his first coaching job. It makes complete sense: they are exactly the same type of people. Intelligent; teachers; innovators.
I am one of the seemingly few people who liked Bill Walsh as a broadcaster as well; I thought he was one of the 2 or 3 best analysts of all time. He was too cerebral and soft-spoken to be popular with the general public.
Walsh's book Building a Champion is excellent as well.
Toral
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| | | 2 | Boxman
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Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 19:02
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Bill Walsh's influence on the game of football cannot be measured. His West Coast Offense and the myriad of future coaches and coordinators with San Francisco 49er ties have impacted the past two and a half decades of professional football and will certainly continue from there.
He was clearly ahead of his time and luckily he was appreciated for it while he was still here.
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| | | 3 | Toral
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Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 19:22
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Memories from the pre-eminent football writer of all time, Paul Zimmerman:But to constantly being called the Genius, often with a sneer? I wondered how he really felt about that.
"Genius ... wouldn't you say that's term usually associated with some figment of crackpot?" he said.
But how many real football geniuses have there been? If you'd been around Marv Levy's 1962 University of California staff when Walsh was a 30-year-old defensive assistant, you'd have seen a mentality so high-powered, filled with ideas that poured out so fast that he could barely get them on the blackboard in time. It was like watching simultaneous board chess matches.
"We ran our coaches' meetings in a room with three blackboards," Levy once said. "Walsh would scribble a play, but before he'd finish, his mind would shift to another one. He'd move to the second board and begin writing while he was still talking about the first one. I'd follow him around with an eraser and rub out the play because the coaches were getting confused."
When Walsh's name first came up at the Hall of Fame selection meeting, he swept through in almost record time. The one phrase that stayed with me, a criterion I was once taught to serve as a guideline for evaluating coaches, was "How did he change the game?" With Walsh, the answer is in absolutes. He changed it in infinite ways. He changed it forever.
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