Since childhood sports and athletics have been my life. My career ranged from competing in the National Punt, Pass and Kick Contest at halftime of the Eagles-Steelers game as a chubby 11-year old, to a high school baseball and football career, onto major college football as a player, and then a 30+ year coaching career primarily in football. I also coached baseball at the high school and college level. I hold a journalism degree from the U of Iowa. I stepped out of coaching for a few years, worked in corporate management in the Tampa Bay area and got my football fix by doing radio analyst work as part of the pre and post game shows for the South Florida Bulls football team in the Big East Conference. In 2010 I also hosted a Saturday morning college football radio show in Tampa.
Unable to stay away from the field as a coach any longer, I returned to college football in December of 2010 as part of my old college teammate and former boss at Iowa State, Dan McCarney's staff at North Texas.
PETTITTE CAN'T STAY AWAY
After a year away from the game 39- year old Andy Pettitte has come out of retirement to join the NY Yankees, his third stint with the club. The Yanks now have seven candidates for five starting pitcher slots. Pettitte was signed to a minor league contract, thus allowing him a longer period of time to prepare for his debut. That means someone will essentially be penciled in for the first few weeks of the regular season until Pettitte has built up enough stamina to join the rotation and feel comfortable providing enough innings to get to the back-end of the NY bullpen. I thought Pettitte's last season (2010) was very solid as he adjusted his style, like everyone has to do when Father Time is chasing them, and did so in a cerebral, crafty way. Sure, his strikeout count was down, but as long as he limits base runners and can induce a key double play ball or weak pop up he'll provide a lot of intangibles and leadership no one else can bring to this team.
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