Gary Pinkel
Gary Pinkel
Gary Robin Pinkelis a former college football coach who most recently was the head coach for the University of Missouri Tigers football team. From 1991 to 2000, he coached at the University of Toledo, winning a Mid-American Conference championship in 1995. He is the most winning coach in Toledo's history. He is also the most winning coach in the history of Missouri, a position that he held from 2001 to 2015...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 April 1952
CityAkron, OH
imagine saying
Things weren't good. Wow. I can imagine what they were saying about me in the stands.
freshman including seen
I've never seen a freshman like this, including Brad.
hitting maintain poise positive single
They were hitting on every single thing they did, there were a lot of things that did not go our way. You just try to maintain your poise and be positive with your players.
brad decide drive low neat players team
Sometimes you have to go that low before you can decide what you want to be and what you want to do. The players just started making plays, they just started competing. ... It was neat to see Brad drive this team back.
coached felt practices spring
Shoot, when I was in Seattle, in our 15 spring practices when I coached at Washington, 13 of them were like this. So I just I felt like I was back at home.
bad great hard injury job player step works
I feel so bad for (Coffey) because he's had such a great camp, ... You have a player that works so hard and you get an injury like that. He's been doing just a great job for us. ... Somebody's got to step up. That's the way it is.
continue good guys top
They did some good things with the top two guys out. There's going to be a lot of competition, so let it continue when we come back in August.
bowl comeback greatest guys independence
I told the guys at halftime, let's have the greatest comeback in Independence Bowl history.
certain
There are certain things that you have to do to play that position,
game glimpse great special
What a great game that was to end his career. It was a glimpse of why he is such a special player.
great happens lose opens opportunity somebody
What happens when you lose a great player, it opens the opportunity for somebody else.
beliefs brad couple feels hesitant life opinions push tries vocal
His first couple of years he was really hesitant to say a whole lot because I think Brad is really hesitant to push his beliefs and opinions on anybody, ... He just tries to live his life and do the right things. Certainly, you'd like to have a little more vocal leadership, and I think he's doing that this year. He feels more comfortable.
game good last physically
In the last game we had a really good game physically up front. ... I think we're making progress.
gadget offense share
In their offense they do that, anyway. They always have some gadget plays. That's part of what they do. That's part of what he does. We do our share ourselves.