RIP Paul Dietzel

Former LSU, Army and South Carolina coach. Died at 89.

http://theadvocate.com/home/6993223-125/lsus-paul-dietzel-has-died

Won a national championship at age 33. Was also married to the same woman for 69 years.

 

The Chinese Bandits!! Plus, can anyone imagine a successful LSU coach leaving for Army today?

 

Can't imagine a successful LSU coach leaving for anywhere today, other than for the NFL.

 

Dietzel eventually left Army for South Carolina. He is one of three coaches in South Carolina history who have won national titles before they got to the school. Not sure any other school can make that claim.

 

Coach Dietzal always seemed right out of central casting for the consummate
football coach of the 50's and 60's. In almost every photo he always had
that whistle around his neck and ball cap of his school.

 

I interviewed him during his short time as athletic director at Indiana University.

 

I don't know what your "fix" changes. He'd never have gone straight from LSU to Alabama, and if the LSU job was available in 2007, he'd have gone back there.

 

There were a lot of people in Louisiana who never forgave Paul Dietzel for leaving LSU for Army.

Back then, however, Army was a better job than LSU. How times have changed.

 

And?

 

Can anyone imagine naming a defense after Chinese bandits today? Or any ethnic group of bandits?

 

As I recall, they were named after the bad guys in "Terry and the Pirates," a popular comic strip at the time.