![]() ![]() The Browns and their fans deserve a winner.”Īctually had Kansas City not traded up and taken Patrick Mahomes before Arizona had the chance two years ago, he may still be coaching. Could coaching be part of his unknown future? He’s written a book, The Quarterback Whisperer. This season Arians is working NFL games for CBS-TV. “Jake turned 40 and it hit me harder than anything. “It was good to walk away from the game,” Arians said. Two years later, however, he realized there were too many things, non-football related, that he had missed. In five years, Arizona went to the playoffs twice including 2015 when the Cardinals lost to Carolina in the NFC Championship game. In 2013, 30 years after his first head coaching job at Temple, he got another one. The only time an interim coach has won the honor. When Colts head coach Chuck Pagano came down with Leukemia in 2012, Arians was named interim head coach. Along the way a pair of Super Bowl titles as an assistant with the Steelers. Six different teams over the next 26 years. Jerry Berndt, who had enjoyed Ivy League success at Penn, was brought on to replace Arians.īut it didn’t take long for the NFL to come calling for Arians. Meetings with players were held on stairways in the bowels of McGonigle Hall.īy 1988 and two straight losing seasons, the job was starting to take a toll on Arians. Temple in those days was as far from state of the art football facilities as you could get. It was amazing what Arians, Palmer and other players like Todd Bowles, Kevin Ross, and All American offensive lineman John Reinstra could accomplish. They knew he was getting the ball and couldn’t stop him.” “Best pound for pound football player I ever coached,” Arians said. In his Senior year of ‘86, he rushed for 1,866 yards including 349 against East Carolina. Palmer would go on to have himself a Hall of Fame career, finishing as Temple’s all-time leading rusher, runner-up for the 1986 Heisman Trophy, and a first-round pick of the Chiefs. Coach said, ‘Son, if you can hold onto the ball, you could become the best running back who ever played here.’” My first year in training camp I was fumbling the ball all over the place. “I asked my high school coach, ‘Where is Temple?’” Palmer said. Especially an under the radar running back from suburban Washington, DC, named Paul Palmer. It didn’t take long to land some good ones. We actually recruited Pittsburgh like it was out of state.” “Between Washington, New York and Philly it was just finding the right guys. “He said ‘You can drive two hours and see more players than I can drive ten hours and see.’” Arians said. When it came to recruiting, Bryant gave the newly minted head coach some sound advice. For us to become the best we had to play the best.” We played Florida, Florida State, Alabama and BYU when they were number one. “Miami did it with Howard Schnellenberger. “It was let’s go to the top,” Arians recalled. No risk it, no biscuit.īruce Arians (left) with former Temple football great Paul Palmer. The new young coach and the veteran college administrator shared a vision for Temple football. “Coach Bryant told him that I could move the ball and that I was a winner,” Arians said. Liacouras replaced his Hall of Famer, Hardin, with a totally unproven Bruce Arians, a 30-year-old who had just completed his 2nd year as the running backs coach at Alabama under another legend, Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant. All Chaney did was go on to five Elite 8’s in the NCAA tourney and a spot in the Naismith Hall of Fame. The year before he fired popular basketball coach Don Casey replacing him with Cheyney State coach John Chaney. When it came to change, Peter’s moves were hardly mainstream. ![]() University President Peter Liacouras wanted a change. Temple football, three seasons removed from a Garden State Bowl upset of Cal, had just completed a three-year streak of mediocre results under Wayne Hardin.
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