Coach Dave McClain -- Goodnight, sweet prince
Twenty-five years ago today -- April 28, 1986 -- Coach Dave McClain was taken from us. He is surely not forgotten.
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Fodetus mortuus est, semper vive Fodetus. The photo collage with the Baggott article is priceless. Nobody could wear sans-a-belt pants like Digger.
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A really good human being who brought quality football back to UW. I still remember going to my first UW band concert shortly after he died. It was held in Camp Randall and at one point in the...
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badgerphil wrote:UW fb rapidly spiraled downhill until.....Absolutely. The silver lining is that by hitting rock bottom the entire situation had to be assessed and a new commitment was made to the...
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I know people want to speculate what if, but Barry Alvarez and Dave McClain are two very different people. It's my opinion Barry's nature and mentality led us to a Rose Bowl where such an environment...
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badgerrepublic wrote:I know people want to speculate what if, but Barry Alvarez and Dave McClain are two very different people. It's my opinion Barry's nature and mentality led us to a Rose Bowl where...
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Per UW.....Varsity....UW's On-line magazine.....April 28, 1986 McClain passes away unexpectedly Head football coach Dave McClain, 48, died of cardiac arrest. McClain coached the Badger football team...
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I had gotten to know Dave some having picked him up and transported him to several Alumni events. He got me tickets to a couple games and called to be sure I had gotten them. Nice touch.I was at the...
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Rmasters - that was McClain's last win. They would get throttled by MSU the following Saturday in the snow and, sadly, we know what happened after that. I also vividly recall McClain's first win at...
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Dave McClain was a very nice man. He was a good coach and was fair. I was in his second recruiting class. My career didn't go the way I wanted, but I remember talking with him in the shell after it...
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Tk--glad to hear your comments about Dave's being a good guy. That's how we fans perceived him; and I always figured he was very genuine. He was the type of guy that any father would have felt...
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A couple of my Nuke E prof's always linked McClain's death to Chernobyl.
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NuclearBdgr wrote: A couple of my Nuke E prof's always linked McClain's death to Chernobyl.Yep, that Monday was when the West started figuring out something wasn't right over in the Soviet Union
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Phil, he was a good old fashioned coach and good character. We had lot of talent in those days and while he had his favorite players, he was not very political.
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That senior season of yours, Tk, was a fun one to watch.....although the loss to Illinois, with the famed "skip pass", still ranks as one of my all-time heart-breakers. McClain recruited a lot of...
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"I've still got some old tapes of his tv show; when I watch them I still feel some of the hurt that his loss brought to UW football and its fans..."You should figure out how to get those on You Tube....
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badgerphil wrote:That senior season of yours, Tk, was a fun one to watch.....although the loss to Illinois, with the famed "skip pass", still ranks as one of my all-time heart-breakers. McClain...
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I had customers and friends In Indianapolis who were big OSU fans and I represented a Columbus vendor that was selling this customer. Vendor had season tickets in the upper deck, so I loaded these...
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I was and am very proud of those teams. McClain engineered a classic program turn around. '79 and '80 we improved our defense and competed with the little 8. My freshman year we got thrashed by...
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Per Madison.com......Andy Baggot: McClain finally gets Hall passhttp://host.madison.com/sports/college/football/article_26a321a6-7139-11e0-acf5-001cc4c002e0.html
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McClain was coach through the first three years while I was at UW (Hilles in '86), and built a sense of belief that the football program could actually compete with the Big 2. Even during his...
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