Restic, typically prudent and in love withHarvard, set up a trip to Philadelphia and made nopromises. Meanwhile, the Eagles, so confident thatthe native Pennsylvanian would take the job,scheduled a press conference to announce hisacceptance on the day of his trip. Alarmed by thispresumptuousness and taking his family and thepeople at Harvard into consideration, Resticrespectfully declined the offer.
"I found that they had scheduled a pressconference for me at 3 p.m. [the day of arrival]to announce my signing," Restic told The PatriotLedger in 1976. "From that point, I didn't thinkthe job was for me."
That year, as Dick Vermeil assumed command ofthe Eagles, Restic guided the Crimson to itsfourth straight winning season. Harvard went 6-3and beat Yale 21-7.
Restic is on a roll now. After the commentabout the sports bio, he is absolutely adamant onkeeping the interview both 1) philosophical, and2) in the now.
He continues on his favorite theme of how greedand materialism are destroying college athletics.
"We must protect the integrity of the game orelse everything that we've accomplished infootball all these years will be gone," he says."As administrators and coaches, we've got to beable to take the same test that we're making ourathletes take. We've got to be able to stand upand say what is right."
"The thing I like to compare it to is theWatergate scandal," he says. I edge forward. Nowthis is getting interesting. "That's a goodexample of basically good