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Gerry Faust Dies At 89


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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 Sadly his brand of football was outdated.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.

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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. 

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"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.

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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. 

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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
 


 

 

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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. 

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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. 

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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

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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. 

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