Coaching isn't a popularity contest. A lot of Devine's...
Posted on: October 15, 2018 at 20:33:10 CT
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players didn't "like" him at the time, but they loved him in retrospect, because he brought out the best in them. I don't think Johnnie Roland liked Devine when he suspended Roland for the entire season for stealing hubcaps off a car (which was actually a prank gone wrong). However, Roland came back for his senior year, won All America honors as a defensive back, and then became NFL Rookie of the Year in 1966 as a running back for the old St. Louis football Cardinals.