College Football Hall of Fame coach Jim Donnan was the guest at Tiger Club of KC today. And what a guest he was!
Jim started off by interviewing Tigers wide receivers coach Andy Hill, who was in Columbia. Jim asked Andy if he was out on the road, and when Andy said he wasn’t, Jim said, “It's a dead period ... I was going to catch your ass for cheatin'."
Knowing his audience, Jim then shared a couple kU jokes. And he had the crowd rolling and reminiscing the rest of the time, sharing stories from his early days of coaching at NC State, Florida State, North Carolina and K-State, before coming to Mizzou as an assistant coach in 1981.
Several former players where at the lunch, and Jim said having them come back and calling him “Coach” is something he cherishes. He shared great memories and stories of Don Faurot, and how he asked Woody Widenhofer why Oklahoma and Penn State and some others had come calling and thought Jim would be a good offensive coordinator, but Woody didn’t. But it wasn’t to be …
Jim took the offensive coordinator position at Oklahoma, and then became head coach at Marshall before finishing up at Georgia. He was elected to the Hall in 2009. Jim reached out to Paul Blackman at the Tiger Club (through regular guest Dennis Dodd), saying he was looking for opportunities to speak at places he used to coach.
Jim was a great guest with many fond memories of Mizzou and Columbia, with great jokes, good memories from stops all over the country, and stories from names familiar to us all as Tigers and college football fans.
Jim started off by interviewing Tigers wide receivers coach Andy Hill, who was in Columbia. Jim asked Andy if he was out on the road, and when Andy said he wasn’t, Jim said, “It's a dead period ... I was going to catch your ass for cheatin'."
Knowing his audience, Jim then shared a couple kU jokes. And he had the crowd rolling and reminiscing the rest of the time, sharing stories from his early days of coaching at NC State, Florida State, North Carolina and K-State, before coming to Mizzou as an assistant coach in 1981.
Several former players where at the lunch, and Jim said having them come back and calling him “Coach” is something he cherishes. He shared great memories and stories of Don Faurot, and how he asked Woody Widenhofer why Oklahoma and Penn State and some others had come calling and thought Jim would be a good offensive coordinator, but Woody didn’t. But it wasn’t to be …
Jim took the offensive coordinator position at Oklahoma, and then became head coach at Marshall before finishing up at Georgia. He was elected to the Hall in 2009. Jim reached out to Paul Blackman at the Tiger Club (through regular guest Dennis Dodd), saying he was looking for opportunities to speak at places he used to coach.
Jim was a great guest with many fond memories of Mizzou and Columbia, with great jokes, good memories from stops all over the country, and stories from names familiar to us all as Tigers and college football fans.
