On this Football team. With all the reports about all the issues our Football team had this year Charlie would have never stood for it. Until we get that attitude back we will remain the laughing stock team in the SEC. For those too young to remember Charlie Bradshaw,all you need to know he was an ex-Marine. I said after the pitiful performance against Tennessee I would have let the stadium empty and make the team go back out and run sprints til they figured out you never quit. You may get beat,but you never quit like you did that night.
We need some Charlie Bradshaw attitude
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I wouldn't bring up Bradshaw being on the Kentucky side line ever.
Someone who compiled a 23-41 record, destroying whatever football success built from Bryant and Collier but especially someone whose name is associated with many, many stories of player abuse not to mention some other dark legends that may or may not be true, that is who you are using as an example of what a UK coach should be, really?
The late Charlie Pell was a Bradshaw asst who eventually became the HC at UF. Pell probably started UF on the road to becoming an upper echelon SEC program all be it by using less than honorable methods to do it. When Pell brought UF into Lexington the first time a sportswriter ask him: "What did you learn from Charlie Bradshaw?" Pell's response was: "Don't run off your best players." Bradshaw was a disaster.
I was at the game the night (1965) that Larry Seiple decided on a 4th and 41 play with about a minute to go fake a punt and run it 70 yards to beat #1 Ole Miss on a Saturday night at Stoll Field. Charlie was not happy, but it was with Seiple for even attempting it. Those were the days. Another night in 69 when we beat another #1 Ole Miss with Archie Manning and Coach John Ray's 2nd game at UK. We beat them 10-9 in the rain. Afterwards Ray made the statement "We are on our way" We wernt. Ray lasted one more season. Bradshaw killed his players and it destroyed anything we had going forward.
Granted we need some attitude and a lot more toughness but Bradshaw would have a player or 2 dead several hurt and the rest sneaking out of town in the middle of the night.He would have had Boom to just carry the ball in his other arm instead of come out of the game
Anybody recall the stories of Bryant, while at UK, taking like 100+ players to I think Millersburg Military Institute and coming back with like 60 guys and that was his team? Did that elsewhere too, ESPN even did a show about it I think.
Anyway, during those days it was fairly common to abuse guys to find out who wanted to play. If guys made it thru his preseason camps he was very loyal to them.
Anyway, during those days it was fairly common to abuse guys to find out who wanted to play. If guys made it thru his preseason camps he was very loyal to them.
Bradshaw was a first class A-hole who was hated by most of his early players. There was a reunion of the Thin 30 a few years back and one of Charlie's assistants showed up. Several former players literally wanted to kick the crap out of the guy that night for what he had done all those years ago. We don't need a guy like that ever again.
Bryant could do that Bradshaw could not.If you put the players on this team thru something like that I doubt that you could put 11 people on the field on each side of the ball.
Claiborne's teams would flat out knock your dick in the dirt. I doubt these current guys would work up a good sweat.
Kids now are bigger,faster and stronger but they (as a whole) don't have heart,mental toughness or attention to detail of the players a few generations ago.They can all get on multiple forms of social media and share their feelings but looking in a mirror and deciding to change what you see is something else
Charlie Bradshaw was a Bear Bryant wannabe hired by Bernie Shively instead of a young, successful Jerry Claiborne. I was in college during the thin thirty era and it was a disaster of such magnitude that UK has never truly recovered.
Bradshaw was a disaster. I talked to one of his players and he told me that when they got off the bus after a 0-0 ties vs Vanderbilt, Bradshaw ordered all the players back on the practice field and made them play the game all over again using the play by play script from the game. Bradshaw ran off his best players and was left with just a core of players that fought valiantly but ran out of gas in the 2nd half of most games. I was in the Orange Bowl and watched the Wildcat lead Miami 17-6 at the half only to lose 25-17. The book the THin 30 is the best example of the 1962 season.
John Ray what a disaster .."The Fighting Wildcats" cue the Notre Dame Victory March...