RIP Larry Williams! All American OT played for Coach Faust early 80`s kinda scary how he went.
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Replies to: RIP Larry Williams! All American OT played for Coach Faust early 80`s kinda scary how he went.
That's awful - RIP Larry
Hits home, as Larry was my era. I also well remember his wife, the former Laura Lee, who was an All-American tennis player at ND. She was beautiful.
Fun fact - Gerry Faust set them up for their first date. Somehow Gerry knew Laura and he suggested to Larry that he give her a call, knowing they were both Californians.
The story goes Coach Faust was at the Grotto...
he notices Lee who was there but she was upset and homesick as a Frosh from Cali. He talked with her, and assured as time went on, she would be just fine. He then brought up Larry Williams as he knew he was from Cali as well. He introduced the two, and the rest was History as Lee became his wife. That`s the kind of man Coach Faust was; he may have been over his head as Head Coach, but he truly loved Notre Dame and was a great man.
Agree 100%
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I had the honor of meeting Coach Faust 2x and this man was one of the good guys.
You would see him long after his coaching days walking, shaking hands, and talking to fans on gameday Saturdays.
I have no doubt he was like that with you, but he was not beloved among many ND players.
He blamed assistant coaches and players for his failures and seen as a buffoon by many of them. And after that fourth season, he cried...literally cried...to a priest, Fr. Joyce, begging him for one more season. Not only was that undignified, everyone knew, and surely he did as well at some level, that he wasn't up to the job. By insisting on coming back for season five, he dug an even deeper hole for the program, punctuated by the humiliating loss to Miami. It was a lot like Biden insisting on running one more time. There had been several ND coaches who stepped down on their own. He should've done the same.
Who's guilty of the greater sin? Coach Faust or the fine folks who hired him out of HS?
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He would stop by the tail gate in his later years. Always a gentleman.
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That was a dang good offensive Line in 82, it featured...
Tom Thayer, Mike Kelly, Larry Williams, Randy Ellis, and Neil Muane. It paved the way for Bell, Cart