GP1 Posted Tuesday at 12:04 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 12:04 PM https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5916622/2024/11/12/gerry-faust-notre-dame-akron-college-football/ 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egregiousbob Posted Tuesday at 01:29 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 01:29 PM How long will it take the local newspaper to report this news? I'm guessing not before 10:30 am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted Tuesday at 02:02 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 02:02 PM Also not reported on ESPN yet. I would think that would be noteworthy. RIP Gerry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted Tuesday at 02:22 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 02:22 PM Gerry was not a great college head coach. He was a great guy in general. He was 43–53–3 at Akron. Sadly, that's pretty good in comparison to recent Akron football. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egregiousbob Posted Tuesday at 02:36 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 02:36 PM It could be argued that he was the first of a string of "Faustian bargains" that have put UA in its current condition. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Zip Posted Tuesday at 03:52 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 03:52 PM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Adams Posted Tuesday at 04:10 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 04:10 PM 1 hour ago, clarkwgriswold said: Gerry was not a great college head coach. He was a great guy in general. He was 43–53–3 at Akron. Sadly, that's pretty good in comparison to recent Akron football. He always seeed to be a genuine person. He used to hold "Lunch with the Coach'on campus every week. I believe on Wednesdays. They had a pretty good spread too. He talked. Had some of the players attend. I still have the "Movin' A' I won at one of the lunches. Sadly his brand of football was outdated. But, he did recruit some good players. I think he recruited Jason Taylor among others. Check me on that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted Tuesday at 04:17 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 04:17 PM One of the nicest human beings I've ever met during my time around Akron. Genuinely kind and sincere person. He will be missed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egregiousbob Posted Tuesday at 04:48 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 04:48 PM (edited) Nearly noon and still no mention on Ohio.com...or gozips.com. Reminds us how good national newspapers are. Edited Tuesday at 04:49 PM by egregiousbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted Tuesday at 06:04 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 06:04 PM 1 hour ago, egregiousbob said: Nearly noon and still no mention on Ohio.com...or gozips.com. Reminds us how good national newspapers are. It took them over 3 days to report on Guthrie moving on. They'll probably wait to just cut and paste the obit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted Tuesday at 06:34 PM Author Report Share Posted Tuesday at 06:34 PM 2 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said: One of the nicest human beings I've ever met during my time around Akron. Genuinely kind and sincere person. He will be missed. He was a very nice man who actually cared about his players. He didn't have the required level of sleaze even back then to be successful at the college level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted Tuesday at 06:36 PM Author Report Share Posted Tuesday at 06:36 PM Some of you are waaaay to worried about the ABJ. Save that junk for other topics. A good guy died today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy-claws Posted Tuesday at 07:07 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 07:07 PM "The Boys played hard!" was his standard response first thing out of the box at press conferences. I used to enjoy talking to him at Green Hills Golf Course in Brimfield where he "worked" as a starter after The U. What stories! He would always stop where I was at basketball or football games and say Hi and kibbitz for a time. Great Guy. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted Tuesday at 11:08 PM Author Report Share Posted Tuesday at 11:08 PM 3 hours ago, zippy-claws said: "The Boys played hard!" was his standard response first thing out of the box at press conferences. I used to enjoy talking to him at Green Hills Golf Course in Brimfield where he "worked" as a starter after The U. What stories! He would always stop where I was at basketball or football games and say Hi and kibbitz for a time. Great Guy. I have a friend who is a member of Fairlawn CC. Faust showed up and played by himself all the time. Everyone liked him and he treated everyone well. I don't think he ever had a membership though. He just showed up and played. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted Tuesday at 11:22 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 11:22 PM I really liked the guy, he was very friendly. I bet he was a great fundraiser judging how he talked to people. An awesome big time high school coach/recruiter, a lot of us thought he could translate that to college football. He was a very nice man. Maybe too nice to be involved with big time college ball. Maybe that’s been Akrons problem, hiring great guys who aren’t ultra seedy recruiters. Rest In Peace Coach 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VDizzle12 Posted Tuesday at 11:34 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 11:34 PM I worked in the athletic department back in the 2010s and Gerry was one of the nicest people I met. He was always walking around talking to everyone. He had some great stories from his time at Notre Dame and was always so grateful for his coaching opportunities. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dre22era Posted yesterday at 03:00 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 03:00 AM Hired straight off a HS Football Sideline to coach Notre Dame. I wish we now did the same thing hiring Tim Tyrrell from Hoban. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted yesterday at 03:21 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 03:21 AM 19 minutes ago, dre22era said: Hired straight off a HS Football Sideline to coach Notre Dame. I wish we now did the same thing hiring Tim Tyrrell from Hoban. RIP You do remember his results at Notre Dame? 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted 19 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 19 hours ago 8 hours ago, dre22era said: Hired straight off a HS Football Sideline to coach Notre Dame. I wish we now did the same thing hiring Tim Tyrrell from Hoban. RIP I'm hoping they hire Jim Grobe out of the retirement home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Section210Zip Posted 14 hours ago Report Share Posted 14 hours ago Gerry was a great man. He genuinely cared for everyone he met. I was very fortunate to get to spend some time with him over the years. As others have stated, he could tell some stories and was very funny in doing so. The world could use more Gerry's in it, not less. I feel Gerry never got the respect he deserved from us fans. If you look back, he still has the best single season in '92 going 7-3-1 since going to D1 as well has the best win % for his career here. .426 as D1 and .441 over all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted 13 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 13 hours ago (edited) 3 hours ago, Section210Zip said: Gerry was a great man. He genuinely cared for everyone he met. I was very fortunate to get to spend some time with him over the years. As others have stated, he could tell some stories and was very funny in doing so. The world could use more Gerry's in it, not less. I feel Gerry never got the respect he deserved from us fans. If you look back, he still has the best single season in '92 going 7-3-1 since going to D1 as well has the best win % for his career here. .426 as D1 and .441 over all 92 is still the best winning percentage in D1 history at Akron. Amazing, this was 32 years ago. All Akron had was the Rubber Bowl and a work out room in the Natatorium. Faust actually provided hope to Zips fans. There really was hope for the program back then. Just a few more pieces and we would be on our way. And then the failure of leadership hit and here we are today. Edited 10 hours ago by GP1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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