Homer Rice and Bill Johnson

[BengalChris]

(07-11-2021, 06:33 PM)impactplaya Wrote: Obviously then.we didnt have the media coverage or internet
But Im.curious to find out the reasoning why Johnson
And Rice got HC gigs

Neither had a resume that spelled out being innovative
Rice to me seemed to be a pushover as a coach
Never really had the respect of the lockeroom
Well his record speaks for itself

Neither guys were ever HCs ever again

You know I live in Florida and have for quite a long time. You would think from the media coverage that we've been having more hurricanes than ever before. Yet, that is not true at all.

When I was a kid growing up in Springfield, I never heard anything about hurricanes actually happening. They were barely covered. Besides the only TV there was was a station out of Dayton, one out of Columbus and a local UHF PBS station. That was it.

Later when I was stationed in Biloxi Mississippi in 1979 the place got creamed by a hurricane. No one back home had even heard about it.

Point is, is that the media coverage back then was way, way less and not nearly as sensationalized as it is today.

Paul Brown picked this guy, so obviously he must be the best of the available guys. That's all you really had to hang your hat on. Few, if any, of the fans actually knew Walsh's contributions.