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rurallib

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3. Welcome to DU - that is a most interesting take

Reply to charlives (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 23, 2014, 06:57 PM

Apr 2014

I was going to go off in another direction, but you really made me think.
With all the money and fame that surrounds the big time sports, in the end he was a very well paid coach.
And he was not even really in control of what he should have been.

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