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Mac and Mack looking for a running game

By Bill Curry
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 2, 2003

In all my years of football I have known a handful of great assistant coaches. Four, to be precise. Sadly, in our business the word "great" is one of the casualties of exaggeration and pretense. It is so routinely applied to everything -- from unproven rookie athletes to every new product with a big advertising budget -- that we have not the vaguest notion of what it actually means. Here are the characteristics of the word when applied to a college football assistant coach: preternaturally loy ...

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