Bum Phillips and Coaching Characters

Like everyone else, I loved Bum Phillips. Who didn’t? How could you not love Bum? He was a big ol’ Texan ex-marine who wore huge cowboy hats and started coaching high school football in Texas places like Nederland and Amarillo and Port Neches. In 1965, he went to run the defense for Bill Yeoman at the University of Houston. Yeoman ran the veer offense, …