Q&A with former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr - Still active in football
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092309/foo_496269725.shtml
Once they retire, some football coaches stay away from the game that occupied so much of their time.
Not Lloyd Carr.
The former Michigan coach's 32 years in the game ended with the Wolverines' 41-35 win over Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and the Florida Gators in the 2008 Capital One Bowl. But Carr, who coached at Michigan as an assistant or head coach from 1980 to 2007, remains a fixture at Wolverines home games.
The 64-year-old Tennessee native who led Michigan to the 1997 national title still has strong opinions about the game - some of which he shared with Banner-Herald sports editor David Ching on Tuesday before speaking to the Athens Touchdown Club.
Q: How many games have you actually attended since you retired?
A: I've attended all the Michigan home games. This year I'm planning on going to our Iowa game in Iowa City. And of course, I've been to a couple of pro games to see our former players. I'm gonna see the Miami-New England game in Miami in December, and I watch all the games on TV.
Q: So the desire to be there on Saturday didn't leave you when you decided to hang it up?
(Click on the link above to read the entire thing...)
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:23 PM ^
Leave it to those 'dogs to pick Carr's brain re beating FL and Tebow.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:29 PM ^
did you read the comment below the article from one of their fans...lol
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 PM ^
What does Carr mean, "we?" I thought he was out of football.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:28 PM ^
well, he is an assistant AD, is a senior spokesman for college football...and an ambassador to the game... he is involved in many aspects outside of the practice field, but still within the game...he still gives a damn about the game etc.
Id say that still qualifies as "We"
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:50 PM ^
In honor of Coach Carr...a tremendous read.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:55 PM ^
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How do they do an interview with Lloyd and not ask him about the practice controversy? And how does a paper in Georgia have the first interview I have seen with Lloyd since the Freep story broke?
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:08 PM ^
"How do they do an interview with Lloyd and not ask him about the practice controversy?"
I'm sure that the biggest stipulation to getting an interview with Lloyd was that they do not ask any questions about pending investigations. That might also answer your second question too.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:45 PM ^
OK I guess I can buy that excuse to a certain extent, being part of the AD. But really shouldn't he allow the question to be asked and just say I'm not allowed to comment on the on going investigation. Seems easy, Bill Martin did essentially the same thing, we're doing an investigation I'll comment after it is completed. It makes it seem by not doing an local media he is trying to say something.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:24 PM ^
Of course, it's possible that he did say that, and the paper simply chose not to print it in the story.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:56 PM ^
As much as I am completely excited about RichRod and what he can do for the program, I am still happy that Carr is still involved with the program.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:58 PM ^
Quibble on copy & paste. Give the interviewer the credit by linking it and only c/p a small snippet/paragraph. They put work into writing that/interviewing Carr. Let them have the page view.
Just the e-pinion of someone who posts things on the internet for other people to enjoy.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:09 PM ^
I will edit it down, but do note that I placed the link up front and very visible for that very same reason....
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 PM ^
Yeah, I saw the link, and clicked through. I just try to mention all of that every time I post about c/p so it sticks with other people.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 PM ^
sitting with Gary Moeller at the game. There is room for them to sit together in one of two boxes in the old Press Box. It may be nothing at all; they might simply be sitting where it is easiest for them to see the game. They are in two separate boxes, one or two partitions apart. They are not that far from each other. I just thought that they might enjoy the conversation if they could watch together. Not many people up there, apart from the coaching staffs, who know as much football as those two.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:28 AM ^
The interviewer should have got him on record supporting a Michigan - Georgia series.