Continue with business and go in there and have a good game." Thinking that she just sent a note down or a message down from the stands I didn't think about it and when the game was over Bob Devaney came up and said to me "Has you wife had the baby yet?" I said "No, she's fine. Even at halftime Bob Devaney came up to me and said "Your wife's doing fine. The whole time I thought she was in the stands she was at the hospital and everybody knew except me. It was the day that we played Oregon and it was the first game of the season my senior year and my wife was due the following day. The thing that I remember most about Bob Devaney was the day my son was born. He's got so many of them it's kind of hard to remember them. That Game of the Century.ĭM Do you have a favorite Bob Devaney story?īT You know what. The other one would be that Oklahoma game on Thanksgiving Day. I always wanted to play in the Coliseum even when I was playing around here and that was something else.
We had to run through the terminal to get to it and they had already closed the door but luckily they opened it and let us get on.ĭM Is there a particular regular season game that sticks out in your memory?īT Of all of them I would say it was when we came back to the Coliseum and played USC and tied them 21-21 my junior year. We flew from LA through Denver and in the Denver airport they sell Coors beer to people that are 18 and so here was Bob and I at the age of 18 and we said "Let's go buy ourselves a beer." So we went and sat down and had a couple of beers and waited for our transfer flight to continue on to Lincoln not realizing that there was a time difference between our California time and Denver time and we almost missed our flight. The recruiting trip that I took was also with Bob Newton. As far as being contacted, I was contacted by Arizona and a lot of smaller schools around California plus the USC contact out of high school.ĭM Tell us about your trip to Nebraska in the VW bug with Bob Newton.īT The trip to Nebraska in the VW bug was after we signed the letter of intent. They just didn't follow through.ĭM Did anybody recruit you besides Tom Osborne?īT I had letters from all over the place. They came to me after high school and I had a knee injury that was operated on after my senior year in high school so they said go to Fullerton College and prove out that knee and we'll give you a scholarship if that knee proves out.