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CoUege fogtbc Peppe Associated Press Atlanta(AP)-For the firs time in 23 years Peppe Rogers, fired last winte after six seasons at Georgi Tech, will be without 77/ miss the st havina dean sock ^ - ? free stamps.' college football team th fall. The colorful 48-year-o Rogers, who admits he w miss his association with tl players but not the "losir and practice, will still i involved, however, as television color con mentator for ABC. The thing he will mi! most, he said will be tl winning. "I'll never hai another feeling like that Rogers said. Rogers als was a head coach for seasons at Kansas, UCLj and Georgia Tech. ? compiled an overall recoi of 178-94-10. Wl Rogers Rogers also was < assistant coach for nil seasons after playing thr seasons at Tech and servii in tne Air * orce. "I guess the biggest d ference in not coaching ai coaching is that you dor feel any hatred. I am tl same person now that I w; then, but I don't have peop fumbling footballs ai dropping passes for me so Hnn't haup anvnnp hatir me," Rogers said in an i terview with the Atlan Journal. "It's nice to g< anonymous letters and to | to a party and not feel all tl anger," he said. "I'll t you what. I'm at peace wi the world. I feel good. I si have all the normal ups a down, but I feel happy." ROGERS, who was fir with a year remaining on 1 contract and replaced by I Curry, admits he will m other things besides w ning. . "I'll miss the players, a I'll miss the secretaries, miss having clean socks , wear every day and I'll m having free stamps," joked. He said he does not kn exactly what his role w ABC will be but he is look ' forward to it. "I'm euro thou ovruipf A 111 OUI V/ UIVJ VA|^>VV !'i to be myself," Rogers s? A who during his yea rs at T< /'< had a Hollywood-st weekly television show, t< to wearing curly hair, { rode to school on a mot cycle. "One of the problems being a football coach being honest. You can't j something because it > alienate somebody down some little town who mij be about to give the sch f i{ ill news x Rogers: $25 or $1 million. But that t should be a big plus for me r as a color man," he said, r "It'll keep me around a football, and it gives me a someplace to go. When jcretaries. I'll miss s and I'll miss having -Pepper Rogers is you've had someplace to go all your life and then don't Id have anyplace, it's strange. ill I haven't had anyplace to go le for eight months." ig Asked the things he won't THI 99 } 50 13 le d i n . rv,?? Mfllp. me ee j^HHV A *g M [' ' ' -, ; tkB V JF id [\v;^:Vv^::;v:: ! J [j ie as MB ]e t,--v^,;.vr.: J..? ,, id t;;.r;;q-v^v =;S;.i v;;V;, :. i r '" -ig ta ?? piSfiiSlpilpiSi lie en th .ill !':' .' I U - :;b.' I HI ... ... ., ed lis ' ~ ".""^ v( ^'~ Jill i ?; iss [...." :/ v^-/-" in- [ ,- . ? pi ;v: ind f ^ 1 o mmm 9b3^^BHb| me lid, ech yle S EWER of is say vill in ght ool * coach wi miss as a college coach, Rogers said, "Standing around in the middle of the field and talking about all the marvelous things I'm doing for American youth. Coaches like to talk about building character. They don't build character. They eliminate those who don't have it." He said also that he won't miss losing and practice. "Some coaches just love putting on their coaching shorts and hanging a whistle around their necks and going out there. I never did. I hated practice. "Coaching is like a love affair," he added. "It can never last forever." I MOST IN! ^2^. ^sj &m Im ^SSSHBSk JfZr' -; ^ -0-^-f^'"~"" f'', '" HmfM H i LITE BEER F YTHING YOI IN A BEER ithout a t< TUSCALOOSA. ALA.(AP)-Major Ogilvie is in complete agreement with Coach Bear Bryant's opinion that it will take a miracle for Alabama to win a third consecutive national collegiate football championship. "Yes, I agree with him," Ogilvie said. "We've just got so much to do," Ogilvie said. "Every thing looks stacked up against us." Ogilvie, concerned over TiHp's Ihks of ninp starting offensive performers from last year, offered last spring to relinquish his scholarship so that Bryant might be able to i. * POPUI D AC ED J IIWEUI mm ROM MILLEI I ALWAYS W I. AND LESS. X 1980 Miller Brew earn sign another player. "I had saved up some money and just thought I _i 1j :a n :j SI1UU1U UU 11, uglivic SctlU. "He just said he appreciated it, but he doubted he'd take me up on it." Bryant recently said the gesture almost made him cry. "That never happened to me before," Bryant said. "I doubt if it's ever happened before in college football. Of course I said no." Ogilvie, a 187-pount senior halfback, led the Crimson Tide in rushing last year with 512 yards, averaging just over five yards per carry. He was a second-team AllLARSM ILL. ^k HI <S |n-^t|Rf H|^H^Kj||Ii ? ir^"^rAr-L*T _>%r:^i^I^?^'^J" t X; *^T*A * mauj; JULi! *wf f '-. i-- '-{ * Mr t W ? ?^->f ' ^ I V I # eta:: . Allien NESi mmmffi mg Co.. Milwaukee. Wis PP^JpSP$i! SEC performer, and was named the most valuable player in the Sugar Bowl after leading the Tide to victory over Arkansas, one that gave Alabama its second national title in a row. ALTHOUGH Alabama has played in three straight Sugar Bowls, Ogilvie says he doesn't care where this team makes its post-season appearance "just as long as we're playing for the national title." He added, however, that Alabama's goal always is to improve with each game and he believes this team will do that as the season progresses. ^uc vnj JflH mna