Bill Mallory Michigan State Lockerroom 1987

Bill Mallory speech to Michigan State players after MSU beat Indiana to clinch the berth to the Rose Bowl in the 1987 season.

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[CArchivist]

One of the great class moves I ever saw by an opposing coach.

[ziuhoosier]

Coach Mal was the best!, and his record shows it. 6 bowls in 8 years, he beat Michigan, won 2 straight vs. O$U, and was in charge of the best years of Indiana football. I commend him for staying with the IU program even after Brand fired him for all of the wrong reasons. Mal is the best, and we here at Indiana will never see anyone as good. Hep was close, but Mal still is on top. He ran his program with class, graduated his players, and won football games, enough said.

[StSimonMartyr]

Mallory took no shit, expectations were set, and very clear.

If you F'd up, he let you know.

Different times, but he was respected by all of his players, and not necessarily feared, just respected.

Wasnt just Bradley he punched, he got into it with many players that deserved it for doing stupid chit, but like I said, different times.

Great coach, good man.

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

These were the great years for IU football. We beat each Michigan and Ohio State in '87.  Mallory was a great coach but I know a secret about him. He punched out a player once, Steve Bradley the quarterback after the Missouri game when IU was 4-0. Bradley and some buddies had been out drining in Bloomington when they got home and they got picked up by the cops. It is a long story. Anyway, Mallory went overboard, just like Knight and Woody Hayes before him. It cost him.

[lovelplants]

wow.. so old.. but still nice..

[Priormiles]

And Michigan State did. Final Score of the 1988 Rose Bowl: MSU 20, USC 17.

[alexgolf09]

psycho fistpump. good motivator they got the w lol

[conyer]

From a Spartan, that coach is fucking awesome. Much respect!

[GBev2K]

That's awesome. 

[inguy22]

@geoffds If Andre Ware had played in the Big Ten, he wouldn't have broken those records.

[davidallenroth]

@geoffds

it was andre ware that won it instead of thompson. maybe it was 89 i shouldve said?

[geoffds]

@inguy22 Fair enough. In a normal year Thompson might have won. But Andre Ware set 26 records that season. Ware is better remembered for being one of the greatest NFL busts, but the numbers he put up in college were ridiculous.