« on: December 20, 2010, 08:16:06 AM »
I was never pleased with him being AD but there is no denying his love for Auburn
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/12/commentary_housel_more_excited.htmlThese days, it really is great to be an Auburn Tiger, or so the popular chant goes.
A 13-0 record, SEC title, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, decorated defensive lineman, offensive coordinator who reportedly turned down a $3 mil-a-year-head coaching job to stay and a trip to the BCS national championship game would qualify as a list of reasons for such a statement.
Perhaps no one understands the magnitude of the statement more than former athletic director David Housel. You would be hard-pressed to find another Auburn fan with more knowledge of the program's history, more heartfelt love for the school and its programs or more orange-and-blue blood invested more than Housel.
"I think as I look back over my 55 years of being an Auburn fan, there are two things," Housel, an Auburn graduate, former Auburn sports information director and (most importantly to him) an Auburn man, said recently. "If you add the cost of a trip to Arizona, and you divide it by 55 years, it's pretty reasonable," he laughed.
"We've been through some highs, some mighty highs, and some good highs; and we've been through some lows, some mighty lows here. But the story has played out over a long period of time. Life is not a sprint. Neither is following a college football team. It's sometimes a marathon and this has been a long time in coming. We just need to win the game and then try to get out there again."
Housel pointed out that the football team has been designated a national champion five times, but only the 1957 national title is recognized.
This season, regardless of the outcome, will be celebrated, he said, but boy, what a celebration it would be if Auburn defeats Oregon on Jan. 10 and brings home the crystal football.
"When I think back over this season, it's like a dream," Housel said. "Nobody really expected this going into the start of the year and I think most Auburn people are like me -- don't pinch me, don't wake me up. It's almost like our fairy godmother did what she did for Cinderella. It's magic, it's just magic."
Housel said this is a team that teaches valuable lessons too. Object lessons. One is to "never, never, never, never give up," learned in the Alabama game. The other, learned through the drama that surrounded Can Newton, is not to rush to judgment. "The truth doesn't come out on a day-to-day, 15-minute news cycle, it comes out over the long haul," Housel said.
The Tigers might also have another lesson in them: that it's good to be a national champion. David Housel sure hopes so.
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