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04-13-2003, 07:36 PM
Ron McBride's tenure as the head coach at Utah ended this year because of a coaching change, but he gave the Utes a legacy on the football field. If things work out the way Jordan Gross would like, Houston Texans quarterback David Carr would owe McBride for the rest of his career.
Left tackles are hard to find. The Jaguars built their expansion franchise around left tackle Tony Boselli and became a playoff team by their second year. Every couple of years, a great one pops up, but that's the problem. Sometimes you have to wait a couple of years to wait for the next Boselli, Willie Roaf, Orlando Pace, Jonathan Ogden or Walter Jones.
McBride, fired after the season, little found one growing in farm country. Gross was a 6-foot-4, 255-pound athlete that somehow caught McBride's eye. Son of a power company dispatcher, Gross grew up 50 miles west of Boise, Idaho. His alma mater, Fruitland High, had only 86 students in his class. Because he was one of the school's best athletes, Gross did everything. He played two-ways in football. He ran on the 400-meter relay team for track. He played basketball.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfldraft/columnist?id=1537035
Left tackles are hard to find. The Jaguars built their expansion franchise around left tackle Tony Boselli and became a playoff team by their second year. Every couple of years, a great one pops up, but that's the problem. Sometimes you have to wait a couple of years to wait for the next Boselli, Willie Roaf, Orlando Pace, Jonathan Ogden or Walter Jones.
McBride, fired after the season, little found one growing in farm country. Gross was a 6-foot-4, 255-pound athlete that somehow caught McBride's eye. Son of a power company dispatcher, Gross grew up 50 miles west of Boise, Idaho. His alma mater, Fruitland High, had only 86 students in his class. Because he was one of the school's best athletes, Gross did everything. He played two-ways in football. He ran on the 400-meter relay team for track. He played basketball.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfldraft/columnist?id=1537035