I’d just come visit your ass in the hospital…

Clearly Augie does not subscribe to the positive reinforcement only doctrine that permeates coaching these days.

Damn, hadn’t picked up a glove in a while but put me in coach!

That was awesome. Lollygaggers always seemed too innocent.

When he drops “depersonalize” into the f-bomb mix, it has an almost Brechtian effect.

I like this guy.

Augie is incredibly intense. And baseball means everything to him. People assume the mysticism is equated to passivity and some beatific philosophical acceptance of winning and losing. Uh, no.
 
When I first saw that documentary, I remember this speech and I was ready to run through a wall.
  
There’s another part in the film where he tells a team after a loss something to the effect that “You’re the University of Texas and you just lost to an inferior team. Now, for the rest of their lives, they own a little piece of you. Until you die. Do you understand the stakes now?”
 
Pretty amazing stuff.

I wish Mack had a bit of that fire in the belly!

Garrido’s good. The usual standard in baseball coaching circles is that you can “blast” a team only once a season and the onus has to be taken off after the next game, no matter the outcome. Anybody know the time span of this video? Greatest blast I was ever part of—coach was an ex-Yankee—after the “you don’t own that uniform” warmup he bellows, “You played like fucking chicks. I don’t coach fucking chicks. I HUMP fucking chicks!”

Also, couldn’t wait every other year for Texas to show up at Stanford, where I lived for a stretch. Before the first game of the series all the Texas players would pull together into a knot and mumble some poem/song as two players pretty well hidden in the center simulated butt sex. Anybody got any idea what that ritual is all about? Does it still go on?

When Augie was in the locker room I suddenly had this image of Bob Knight wearing a baseball hat.

Obviously not raised in the generation where everyone got a trophy or a participation ribbon and a trip to CiCi’s at the end of the season (which isn’t a bad fucking thing).

They’re kids. Scare ’em.

I like his intensity. The point he was making to the kid who didn’t take a pitch was perfect. “You don’t tell me you don’t see it! LOOK!! UNDERSTAND!!”

I’m glad he cares, first of all.

Second, where does all this high-quality inside footage come from?

What is the name of the documentary this is from? I remember catching it on ESPN a few years back, was completely mesmerized.

Inning by inning

I fucking love this. Thanks for putting it where we can all ses it.

This is how I speak when I watch us hit.

Perhaps this a kernel of an idea fora new show on the Longhorn Network.

Does Augie have a military background/family? I remember that “I’m sorry for failing you line” from basic training (one phrase you’d never want to hear). More than just the verbage (thank you John Gruden), the delivery is pure military.

Love the fire.

Did Augies come from d Hood??

Another interesting interview. Substantial guy.
 

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In the clip above, go to the 18:00 mark where he talks about the importance of Process over Results. Probably my most constant criticism of Mack Brown. Augie gets this in a big way.

Who was the team in blue?

Scip – Thanks for that gem of a video.

“If you stay with the process…master the skills…then and only then will your true genius come out.”

“As long as you are playing to win the game, or playing to get approval…you will fail. Because you’ll create a pressure, and that pressure leads to expectations. Expectations are a false reality.”

Stuff to live by.

Nice find, Scipio. Hadn’t seen that one. For those that haven’t seen it, the youtube footage came from the Linklater documentary Inning by Inning.

Here’s an interview with the filmmaker and subject.

Thanks for posting this. It made my week.

Who was on First.

After watching the interview, the possibility crossed my mind that Augie would be more disappointed in his players if they got rattled during his chew out sessions than not.

Think about it in relation to the quote about ‘process’:

"As long as you are playing to win the game, or playing to get approval…you will fail. Because you’ll create a pressure, and that pressure leads to expectations. Expectations are a false reality."

Augie cares and his fierce emotions are hardly a fabrication, but he might intend it as a test for them to absorb pressure, and not what he expects or wants to be the motivator.

theres barkers with jobs??

absolutely effing awesome.

holy shit

Just FYI

The whole movie is on Netflix, streaming.

aaand lest we forget, we have a pretty inspiring football coach too. This video is second only to the Craig Way 4th and 5 call in my book of “THINGS I THINK ARE AWESOME”:

Inning by Inning is required viewing.

domedriver said:

April 28th, 2011 at 2:47 pm

I wish Mack had a bit of that fire in the belly!

Ditto, except strike out “a bit of that” and replace with “the same”

I wish Mack had a bit of that fire in the belly!

That, along with double the MNC games and championships and treble the XII championships.

Paul Newman, “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”:

l understand you’ve taken exception to my calling you whores.

l’m sorry. l apologize.

l ask you to note that l did not call you callous-ass strumpets, or fornicatresses, or low-born gutter sluts.

But l did say whores. No escaping that.
                
And for that slip of the tongue, l apologize.

Always leave ’em guessing…

Inning by Inning is definitely one of my favorite sports documentaries ever. And if you want to show it to your kids, the DVD includes an edited version that may be preferred. Although in some of those scenes, there isn’t much left of the dialog.

two claps and a group hug has always worked for me.

After watching that, I feel like Mr. Rogers

Augie just won his 1800th game yesterday. And just tacked on another today.
 
He has a shot at 2,000. Staggering.

Sat behind home plate for the last three innings. Junkman’s control down the stretch after the early hiccup was Cy Young worthy. Augie was pretty moved from the applause for his milestone after the game.

I don’t see him as a junk ball pitcher at all. You should apologize.

Augie for Offensive Line “Consultant”!