DON CORYELL HAS DIED.

[monty]

Jul 5, 2010 16:08:16 GMT -8 aztecfan1 said:

There was probably a fair amount of spying that went on in the old days of college football. About 1971 or so I had just started at SDSU and a guy I knew well from high school was on the staff of the U of Arizona as a grad assistant. Zona was going to play the Aztecs in a week and he was coming over on a "recruiting" trip and I was only two happy to be a friend. Turned out his real purpose was to attend the Aztec practice and spy on what the Aztecs were doing so he could relay back to Tucson. He told me that Coryell had players walking around the perimeter of the old practice field looking for people they did not know and asking them who they were. He said he had a hard time not laughing out loud the way they did it. Said Coryell, "Find anyone from Arizona and get em the hell out of here." My pal ended up on the then metal bleachers on the east side of the field, watched the whole practice, called Arizona with the Aztecs schemes. Final score from memory was about 45-10 Aztecs.

Now multiple time super bowl champions just tape walk throughs or sideline signals. The shot hear 'round the world game I've read reports that the G'nts had a telescope in center field, what the hell do you think they use now?

[La Mesa Aztec]

Jul 5, 2010 16:08:16 GMT -8 aztecfan1 said:

There was probably a fair amount of spying that went on in the old days of college football. About 1971 or so I had just started at SDSU and a guy I knew well from high school was on the staff of the U of Arizona as a grad assistant. Zona was going to play the Aztecs in a week and he was coming over on a "recruiting" trip and I was only two happy to be a friend. Turned out his real purpose was to attend the Aztec practice and spy on what the Aztecs were doing so he could relay back to Tucson. He told me that Coryell had players walking around the perimeter of the old practice field looking for people they did not know and asking them who they were. He said he had a hard time not laughing out loud the way they did it. Said Coryell, "Find anyone from Arizona and get em the hell out of here." My pal ended up on the then metal bleachers on the east side of the field, watched the whole practice, called Arizona with the Aztecs schemes. Final score from memory was about 45-10 Aztecs.

When the Chargers used to practice at their old facility near the stadium, the high rise at 8 & 805 was built. I read that Coryell went to then owner Gene Klein and demanded that the Chargers rent the top 4 floors due to worry that the Raiders would spy on them from there.