“But to have a guy like that in the dugout-he’s getting on some of the young guys for not hustling. You come against another team that knocks one of our guys off the plate, O.D.’s the first one on the top step staring somebody down.
“And he’s 170 pounds.
“From a coach’s standpoint, you tell him to sit down. But you’re just psyched that you have a guy like that.
“If we’ve got a battle out on the field, he’s out there before anyone knows what’s happening.
“You need guys like that.
“[Transfer student] Johnny Farmer was a kid that didn’t make the ballclub [last year]. He got cut here, and hung in there his senior year. He never missed a practice, never missed a workout. None of this stuff about, ‘Ihave a job interview, I’ll be late.’ When a kid gets cut and then comes out and makes the ballclub, that says something about him.
“Fifteen years from now, he’s going to be successful because of things like that. With a lot of the kids that you say ‘no’ to, they get mad at you and say you’re wrong. But this kid came back out and said ‘I want a spot’. He forced me to get him in there and then did a good job.
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