Why...

[backskinner]

are the Trojans stuck with mediocrity on the offensive side of the football? Easy. The head coach seems determined to use the OC slot as a trainee job tryout for beginners from questionable programs. Amazingly, the OC who took New Mexico and later the South Carolina Gamecock offenses to 10 game winning seasons in the 80s, lives right in Troy! Frank Sadler was and is a tremendous offensive mind living right in the shadow of TU; you'd think LB would have been wearing the phone out trying to get him on board as long as 3 years ago. Winning coaches don't lose their touch, they just need to be invited to the party. With what Fleetwood's done (failed to do) and the whats-his-name before him, why not give a proven winner like Frank Sadler a shot? It sure as hell would be an improvement over what we've got! :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:

[TrojanFan2]

I'll drink to that!!

[Mr. Ho]

I din't know you lived in Troy. What are you doing here anyway?

[backskinner]

Actually I live in South Carolina, DUMBASS. Frank Sadler lives in Troy. Try your humor on someone who gives a s--t.

[TUEngineer]

I think that was a little uncalled for, I saw no humor in that? Maybe you read too much into it? or I'm completely missing something :?

[theman]

Mr. Ho not give discount and free Coke to mean talker. You choke on chicken noodle. No can skin it back any more.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Hector]

I never heard of Frank Sadler. If he is such a good coach, what is he doing "sitting in Troy". You aren't Frank's mom, are you?

[theman]

Here is an article from the net:

Posted on Sun, Nov. 09, 2003





Frank Sadler - The Veer Wizard


Frank Sadler always wanted to be a head coach. Finally, in 1995, he got his chance.

So what if it was at Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala.? For seven seasons, the former USC offensive coordinator was, at last, master of his own destiny.

In 2001, when Sadler and his wife, Patti, retired to Troy, Ala., where he played college football, he did so with no regrets. "I coached 41 years," he says. "Sooner or later, you've got to walk away."

He couldn't help wondering, though, what might've been.

From 1983-87, Sadler ran the Gamecocks' offense. The first three seasons, that offense was the veer, which Sadler had discovered years before at a clinic run by future USC coach Lou Holtz, and then perfected.

It was Sadler's veer that helped Morrison's final New Mexico team improve from 4-7-1 to 10-1 in 1982 and propelled that staff to Columbia. "I didn't 'save' Joe, but I was always the one he called to help him out," Sadler says. It was the veer, co-quarterbacked by Allen Mitchell and Mike Hold, which produced fireworks in the Gamecocks' 1984 season.

"We didn't have a lot of talent, but the veer gave us the opportunity to play with anyone," Mitchell says. "It was a finesse, speed-type offense." From 1983-85, it was USC's calling card.

But in 1986, USC started high school All-American quarterback Todd Ellis. Ellis was a run-and-shoot, drop-back quarterback, not suited to the veer. But he was USC's future, and two years later, Sadler was its past.

"(Sadler) knew that veer better than anyone," Hold says. "But when they went to the run-and-shoot, he was out in the cold."

After USC lost to LSU in the 1987 Gator Bowl despite an offense that averaged 403.7 yards, "I was asked to resign so Joe (Morrison) could make changes," Sadler says. "I felt like he wanted to throw more than I did, that's why he let me go."

The reality was that Sadler, despite his offense's success, was odd-man-out on Morrison's staff. Short and stout, with a gift for malapropisms that invited jokes by players, he never fit the staff's macho image as personified by Morrison.

"My problem was, I wasn't a drinker, I was a church-goer," Sadler says. "But I tried to be very loyal to the boss man," in hopes Morrison would help him land a head coach's job.

Instead, he found himself without a job. He blames Marcum, who "called for me to be the one to go," and Tank Black, who openly coveted the coordinator position. "I think Tank was trying to stab me in the back," he says.

Sadler became Richland District 1's athletics director, then in 1990 returned to Chattanooga, where he'd been offensive coordinator from 1977-81 when the Mocs were 40-12-3. But when head coach Buddy Nix was fired in 1993, "I had to make a decision for my family," Sadler says.

That led him to Bob Jones High, where the principal, Sam Rombokas, was impressed by Sadler's 17 years of high school coaching. "We needed someone like him," Rombokas says, and Sadler needed enough years to be vested in Alabama's retirement system.

Sadler made BJHS competitive, making several trips to the state playoffs. "He was also very good about academics," Rombokas says. "Frank stood for the right thing."

In 2001, Sadler coached the North squad in Alabama's North-South All-Star game. His team won, 6-3. A fitting way to go out, he decided.

"I enjoyed my college (coaching) days," Sadler says. "But I got to call the shots in high school."

Finally.

[TrojanFan2]

My problem was, I wasn't a drinker, I was a church-goer," Sadler says. "But I tried to be very loyal to the boss man," in hopes Morrison would help him land a head coach's job.


He'll never fit in with Blakeney

[Hector]

Hey Man:

Hector, You're just not old enough to know.

Wrong. I was born during the administration of Harry S. Truman. I think that qualifies me as old enough to know. Sorry, still never heard of the guy. I've also lived in Troy for 15 years, and have still never heard of him. Does he not get out too much? In any case, if he were a viable OC candidate, other schools would be after him. If he is 80 years old, then he is past the age where he could motivate kids effectively.