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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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A who during his yea rs at T<
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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