I have much love for Coach Senior! Love for Coach Bob Chesney and Bob Chesney Senior! Walking the walk in demonstrating and modeling what it takes to be a blue collar dedicated athlete
Bob Chesney Senior is 76 and he's in the UCLA football building early in the morning and he's still in there at night.
He's in the staff meetings. He works with the DL. He's got no title, he's not on the payroll and nobody ever asked him to come.
The players call him Coach Senior. He got there this summer and has been there since.
His son is the head coach. UCLA are 5th in the country this week (first time they've been in the top 10 since October 2001) and they're 8 and 0.
Now back up 26 years.
Bob Chesney grew up in Kulpmont, PA (population at last census 2,758). It was a coal town, with a corner store and a bar on pretty much every block and a social life that went through the clubs, the Knights of Columbus, the VFW and the American Legion and the Polish and Irish clubs.
His dad coached at the Catholic high school. So did his uncle. So did his grandfather. Chesney was the ball boy before he was old enough to play.
His parents couldn't afford his schooling so he went back home in the summer and worked. Some summers that was doing the landscaping. Some summers it was at the mine.
'The toughest one was mining coal.'
"Back in Kulpmont that's what you did."
Years later as a young assistant at Johns Hopkins (making around $28k) he was sharing a 4 bedroom house with his future wife and two roommates and was tending bar at a club in Baltimore at night (four or five hundred a shift).
"Got me through those years."
He started out as a graduate assistant at a DIII school in 2000. Then Delaware Valley. Then King's College. Then Johns Hopkins. Then head coaching jobs at Salve Regina, Assumption, Holy Cross and James Madison.
8 conference titles. A career record of 132 and 52.
Martin Jarmond (the AD who hired him) put it in seven words.
"Everywhere he's been he's turned it around."
Be absolutely clear about what his father actually watched, as it wasn't anything quick and it was by no means glamorous. Bob Senior saw all 26 years of it from the very start and that's how he describes it.
He did it one rung at a time. He didn't skip a single one.
A 76 year old man who coached high school football in a coal town is now standing on a practice field in LA with no title and no pay at all, just watching his son coach the 5th best team in the country.
I do get choked up about it. I'm an emotional guy.
Somebody asked Chesney what the best bit about having his dad there was.
"Well that he is my dad."
“The ranking tells us where we’ve been, I’m more interested in where we’re going.”
UCLA head football coach Bob Chesney has the Bruins ranked No. 5 in the AP poll, but his message is simple ⬇���
That classy USC Coach fella, cussing even with his young kids right there. You may not remember me from UCLA days, but I stand with you @RossBjorkAD Once a Bruin, always a Bruin.
Holy shit...this clip is unreal. Nithya Raman has absolutely NO clue about how housing works in LA. Oppenheim explains to her that landlords are losing money over the last decade and she's got ZERO idea what he's saying. This lady was chair of the Homelessness and Housing Committee for years and she's genuinely hearing this for the first time in her life. Unreal that this low IQ buffoon is about to be the Mayor. WTF are we doing.
This is just outright disgusting, especially when their own QB was taken out with a cheap shot. These ducks deserve bad karma for the rest of the season
Oregon QB Dylan Raiola was asked why he elected to meet with the media after Oregon's 17-15 loss to UCLA.
Worth your time.
#GoDucks
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80%+ of Somali households in MN are on welfare.
Yet nearly $1 million a day still flies out of MSP in in cash-stuffed suitcases.
They drain our state dry and ship what’s left to their failed state.
Amy Klobuchar celebrates and enables it.
Disqualifying.
Our country is being brainwashed. The generation who grew up here not having seen or having to suffer to put food on the table, and without backbone & foundation is ruining us. Selfish politicians do and say anything to get elected
In this video Amy Klobucher, campaigning for Minnesota governor, speaks Somali, happily accepts an upside-down American flag, and brags about making it easier for Somalis in America to send money (much of it fraudulently acquired) to their home country.
Here is a perfect example of the LeBron fandoms trying to make themselves feel better while trying to shape reality. It’s the funniest and sorriest thing
Someone needs to send cameras to the outfield concourse, in the shade, by the beer stands, by the TV’s. In the expensive seats many fans are in the lounge where there are TV’s air conditioning and all you can eat food.
What the hell was Austin Wells thinking here? Never make the final out of the inning at third. And it wasn’t even close.
Rasmussen no-hitter broken up, but Rays three outs from a Game 1 win.
The Dodgers aren’t just giving fans entering the stadium a bottled water and a rally towel but there are crates of water bottles around Dodger Stadium with employees giving water out to whoever asks for a bottle.
Leaving Kobe off was the hardest call on this card. Hakeem too. Curry got the last spot because four rings and the only unanimous MVP in league history is a resume Kobe doesn't beat by as much as people think.
That's just entitlement. Real life just don't work that way. Most of these guys worked their butt off to get to where they are. What these idiots should be understand is "Give them a fish solves hunger for a day, teach them to fish solves hunger for a lifetime."
Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Jeff Bezos spend $150B per year to directly employ nearly 2 MILLION people. Thats an average of $85K per year for 2 million people to put a roof over their head, feed their families, buy a car. I don’t have that insecure commie gene that makes people hate successful people. I see successful people and I admire them. Even when I’ve lost everything and am taking on SBA disaster loans, I still can’t fathom hating rich people just for being rich. Not all rich people earned their wealth…I live in LA, trust me, I know. But if you build a business and employ millions of people, I just don’t understand the hate. It’s pure envy and self-loathing. The irony is so much of this hate comes from people driving Teslas and ordering on Amazon while bitching on social media platforms powered by Oracle servers. This commie mentality is loserthink.