Biggun4214
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Former Tennessee Coach Bill Battle passed today. He was 82.
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Snake
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RIP Bill .
Coach Battle was a fine, Christian man. He was a really good coach with Dickey's players he inherited.
He basically was too good of a person to get down in the sewer of SEC recruiting at the time, and his record in later years reflected that.
May he RIP.
He basically was too good of a person to get down in the sewer of SEC recruiting at the time, and his record in later years reflected that.
May he RIP.
PillsburyDoughboy
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What a tremendous career. Wins a National Chamionship at ALABAMA and eventually makes his way back home to ALABAMA as athletic director. What a glorified career. May he Roll Tide in Heaven !
Bamamonts
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Dang. I hate to hear that. I liked him.
Kirk
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RIP Bill Battle. He was a good man.
I remember he wasnt much older than the kids he was coaching.
Wrangler95
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Hate to hear it,I really liked him!!
A little sidenote to give some perspective on the type of man Coach Battle was:
During one of his later seasons, he had an offensive lineman (from my memory) that came down with a rare blood disorder that put him in the UT hospital. He was basically paralyzed and totally bedridden. My then wife was working as a nurse at the hospital. She told me that multiple times a week, after Battle left the football complex at close to midnight, that he would stop by the hospital to check on his player. He would usually spend an hour plus just reading to the young man or visiting with him. He asked the nursing staff on those shifts to please make sure that word of those visits didn't make it to the press. He wanted no "credit" for his Christian acts.
And, on a not so nice note, it was my "drunk" neighbor across the street that hired the moving company to go to Battle's house during that last season. The neighbor had a wonderful wife and family, but he was a real POS.
During one of his later seasons, he had an offensive lineman (from my memory) that came down with a rare blood disorder that put him in the UT hospital. He was basically paralyzed and totally bedridden. My then wife was working as a nurse at the hospital. She told me that multiple times a week, after Battle left the football complex at close to midnight, that he would stop by the hospital to check on his player. He would usually spend an hour plus just reading to the young man or visiting with him. He asked the nursing staff on those shifts to please make sure that word of those visits didn't make it to the press. He wanted no "credit" for his Christian acts.
And, on a not so nice note, it was my "drunk" neighbor across the street that hired the moving company to go to Battle's house during that last season. The neighbor had a wonderful wife and family, but he was a real POS.
