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60 Minutes 9.20.2020

2020-09-20

Bill Whitaker reports on the battle over rules for mail-in voting in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania that could impact who wins the state and the presidency. Former national security advisor H.R. McMaster tells Scott Pelley the last few presidents — not just President Trump — have left the United States vulnerable to enemies. And what will college football look like during the coronavirus pandemic? Jon Wertheim has the story. Plus -- we pay tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at the age of 87. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."

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Accused of his mother's murder for tee what you could commit a crime that one and not leave any friends again. This death sentence to life. The sting never really had any case against was very much on peace, or maybe we listen to the forty eight hours per week has done apple pie gases. Will you get your ass More people are planning to vote by mail. This coming election than ever before, we ve been into the use of those ballots in a crucial swing state and the partisan fight whether they are safe and secure. Think bush v gore was complicated. When you have half of your voters vote by mail, you will not know the outcome on election night
very first line in your book is. This is not the book that most people wanted me right, People want to be to write another tell all about my time in the trumpet ministration people One of you to write another book about polycentric think what a mirror we need today is a meaningful, a respectful discussion, about these very serious challenges to our security, our prosperity and and our influence. in the world tonight, president, former national security adviser shares his experiences with all the trouble in the world. The less you tigers or the reigning national channels and spring. They tied a modern day record when fourteen of their players were selected in the nfl draft, all right search the reticence of baby So ass, you begins its title defense. We asked the homegrown coach. How about this for an accident rodrigo call me big boy what he was doing to keep his tea
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in a landmark ruling thursday, the pennsylvania supreme court made it easier for voters there to cast their votes, It's by meal that could turn out. One of the most consequential rulings this election year when voting by mail, has sparked intense debate. is trump says. Voting by mail is harmful to our democracy and his election prospects Democrat say, allows more voters to participate in the midst of the run: a virus pandemic, a third of registered vote told CBS news pollsters they planned both by male more than before clashes over voting rules are raging in state courts and legislatures, perhaps Nowhere more than pennsylvania, the perennial Swing state, the facts: to allow limited mail. In voting more than a century ago, we went to see how this battle for the ballot is playing out in the cradle
our democracy. Philadelphia. What keeps you up at night. being an election administrator in one of the largest cities in the country, and one of the fewest swing states in a country gives you up at night it does Al Schmidt is one of three commissioners who run elections in philadelphia. and the loan Republican there's a lot more scrutiny with this one, at a public meeting two weeks ago, held in an open warehouse to allow for social distancing, the common winners, weren't feeling a lot of brotherly love from voters. Voters need to now they want to by now. They don't know about dropbox's. They don't know about early voting. They don't know anything. It seems like this body can't help me. Where can I go for assistance? So I'm just going to get the deer in the headlights. Thing is not how it works. Somebody help me
with the presidential election just weeks away. The sad truth was AL schmitt and his fellow commissioners couldn't offer much help. Thank you for your comment, because they, didn't have the answers themselves. What was the deadline for requests and returning mail in ballot. Would there be dropbox for voters to drop off their balance. Lawsuits and legislative wrangling kept those and other issues up in the air until just three days ago, when the states supreme court ruling provided some answers because the this will serve as had miss. There will be male delays. Valets arriving up to three days after election day will be counted, drop boxes are allowed and slightly relieved. Commissioner, our schmid can now get to work. Not only do we have a vote by
now in pennsylvania now, which is pretty new? We have a whole series of election reforms that are new. We have voting technology that is pretty new and is taking place in this environment with the covert nineteen concerns that have limited our ability to use point places, there's all sorts of challenges all aligning for this election cycle. The biggest challenge wooden by mail, a new election law, allows every registered voters to mail in ballots. It was first rolled out for the june primary as the pandemic ray the racial protest. It was a bumpy rule because of the virus. The primary was postponed five weeks the day before the election democratic governor Tom wolf extent the deadline for some counties to return their ballots, despite the bumps
hundred seventy five thousand philadelphian voted by male. We had just an extraordinary interest in mail in voting, did you notice a pattern, MR who is choosing to vote by may we did philadelphia is roughly seven democrats for every one republican. When we took a look at who up Why to vote by mail? That disparity was seventeen to one seventeen democrats apply to vote by mail for every one republican who voted by mail vote like your life depends on it and you're right depend on it cause they did Angelique hindus working make sure the voices of philadelphia are heard in november
fill this out. We can get this information to the commission, she's working for a nonprofit nonpartisan program to get out the vote, especially from young people and people of color. This hasn't been about the mail as well as far as what are you nervous about like mailing it in gear, how, in the confusion of the june primary, almost six thousand philadelphia mail in ballots were rejected because they arrived at. the extended deadlines so
engine reminds voters to get their ballots in by election day, because I would make sure that you get it as early as possible if you're going to use that process. Why do you think vote by mail has become such a contentious, controversial issue? There have been a lot of people that have been disenfranchised and so voting by mail just gives back a lot of people. You know the ability to vote that maybe couldn't take off work or just for whatever reason couldn't get there to vote on one day out of the year, and so this now provides an opportunity for so many more people to vote, and I think that that is scary to some people and these mail in ballots. Mail in ballots are a disgrace. President trump has visited pennsylvania four times since, due in twenty six t, sixteen, he lost the big cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh
one the rural vote in a landslide and took the state by forty four thousand votes, that's less than one percent so far this year, more than two million pennsylvanians have requested mail in ballots, more than two thirds of them Democrats, almost every time president, from campaigns in the state healing realise against berlin valets. This is just the way there trying to steal the election, and everybody knows it. Because the only way they gonna win is by a rigged elections. Pennsylvania, certainly ground zero. In this presidential election, Democrat Josh appear, who is pennsylvania's attorney general he's been fighting pennsylvania report in the end, the trump campaign over mail in valid since jus public? He wants The recent round in states supreme court, but in federal court can ease the president's lawyers, are seeking to ban drop boxes and lift limits on pole watchers
that have been in place since nineteen thirty seven shapiro told us the behind the scenes. Legal battles are as tough as the political one between president trump and vice president Joe Biden playing out on centre stage. How intense, is this legal battle going on in pennsylvania? Incredibly intense and you're here, at a time where the president and his enablers have gone to court to actually make it harder for people to vote bill, they ve actually gone to court to try and so doubt in people's minds, and I'm in court right now beating back the attempts by the trump administration. The trunk campaign to make it harder for people to vote by male shapiro says exhibit a the president's repeated claim that there is massive fraud with vote by me. It's the centre piece of his federal law suit in pennsylvania,.
And so we went to court and said: hey, MR president, put up or shut up demonstrate that fraud that you keep talking about is the reason for trying to undermine the vote here in pennsylvania and guess what they didn't produce any fraud, the federal court judge a trump appointee has asked the prison Lawyers, to show reason why this case should proceed. They are back in court this week. It can make of it. Seems they weren't on twitter. They can make other claims. They want in the media no disrespect, but ultimately, when you make a claim in court, you're bound to have to show proof facts in evidence and they failed to produce any type of meaningful proof. Constraints that there's this fraud or demonstrates that our statute easy illegal here, Jake's corpsman is the republic majority leader in the pennsylvania senate. He supports president
So you might be surprised by what the senator told us a week before the state supreme court decision, jubilee The voting by mail is safe and secure in the pennsylvania system. Yes, what do you think of the president's? almost unrelenting criticism of vote by mail- I am not going to be for the president s dead, so that's his job. My job is to make sure that pensive into system works. I think we are doing that. We, Done at the pennsylvania republican party claims to be a champion, a vote by me. It overwhelmingly pass the republican common state legislature was signed into law by the democratic governor in october, twenty nineteen well before the pandemic, the website of the pennsylvania republican Party calls mail in voting safe and easy. When we spoke to senator corpsman he called some of the rhetoric around mail in ballots noise. There
it always coming from everywhere. I mean for anyone that claim that is not at all. One sided, just not paying attention and clearly the present has the biggest microphone l presence of the biggest microphone. If you're an effective policy maker. He listened to a to a point. Then you gotta tune it out. Our job is to make sure this election. comes off well and that people are compensated but the tune and tenor of the deed in pennsylvania. Legislature. This summer has not inspired confidence. Republicans and Democrats had been working together on legislation to fix kings exposed in the june primary. Never has anybody, but shortly after president tromp start Blasting voting by mail in the court and on the campaign trail in pennsylvania, state republicans change course,
introduced amendments to the legislation that mirrored the president's goals. If anybody has two eyes into ears, they know I, this amendment is being both democrats in the legislature, like representative, Malcolm, can yadda philadelphia felt line cited and filed the case that it up in the pennsylvania supreme court. They argue delays in mail, delivery, may drop boxes and necessity and regular. she's on poor watchers had been a check on voter intimidation for decades, allowing people to come from counties all across the commonwealth and to places like philadelphia, we'll try to intimidate people from using their rights of all. We have seen these tactics before. That's why the voting rights at struck Now a lot of these things when the dust settled Democrats one most of what they sought in the states supreme court last week, but after the ruling so
Majority leader corpsman told us he's now concerned about the security of mail in balance and that Senate republicans are preparing to fight the decision all the way to the: u s supreme court attorney general. Shapiro says he'll defend the pennsylvania court ruling, but I will tell you that there's an extraordinary amount of hypocrisy. That's going on right now within the republican party, Donald trump. Family vote by male now. The good news is, we have a lot of court cases. We have one in pennsylvania. You know that the trunk campaign, the jew, p democrats and interest groups can you battling in court in pennsylvania and most other states. so we'll see what happens to me. You expected There will be lawsuits that will contain on election day. I can tell you my team- along with others around the country, are preparing for all kinds of outcomes. Sadly, we have to fear that
We have a saying, present united states. The may take me action to try and stop certain legal votes from being counted banking philadelphia. Election commission, is taking over a larger space to process. imbalance. Republican Al Schmidt told us, the states supreme court Milon, provided some clarity to the election process threat, but did. to lay all his concerns. What most concerned you. Our republic depends on confidence in our electors process and there are a lot of voices across the spectrum that intentionally or unintentionally seem to be undermining that confidence. But one thing he states with confidence. We all have
you have patience this november. When you have half of your voters vote by male, when you have hundreds of thousands of votes to count, and you cannot begin counting them or even opening the envelope that those ballots ran until election day. You will not know the outcome on election night. In march, two thousand and twenty a family on the northern cheyenne reservation in lame deer montana, got shocking news about their loved one christie wouldn't buy. My daughter came and notified me that Christie was run over and I said it should be okay and she's like no. She died. I was like what missing justice from CBS news takes you inside what really happened that night and the federal investigation that followed to miss injustice from CBS news on amazon music, for wherever you get your podcasts hr? The master was an eye witness to the oval office tempest that forms
trumps. Foreign policy making Mr was national security advisor for thirteen months, beginning in twenty seventeen, and he brought a world experience to the job he gradual did from west point led troops and combat served multiple. worse in iraq and Afghanistan and on the way to become an army three star general. He earned a phd in history, Mr has written a new book called battle grounds. The title refers to thrive, faced by the u s today and to skirmishers at the white house, the now retired general is a disciple of neither political party, he told the last few president's not just president trump, have left the union did states vulnerable in the eye. Of those who would do us harm. How do our competitors view the united states today? I think our competitiveness is weak and divided. I think they see
opportunity. I think china thinks it's wanting you don't china she's in america, that is, does divided against each other. they see in america. That is reeling from a triple crisis of covert nineteen of the recession associated with covert nineteen and and the civil unrest and racial division. In the way, the horrible murder of george floyd and over issues of of inequality of opportunity, and so china is acting. I think now much more aggressively because they It's time to do it, they have. They have a window of opportunity to exploit weaknesses and to come after us. I think russia feels the same way. Other adversaries could feel the same way, the very far first line in your book is this is not the book that most people wanted me right. People want to be to write another. Tell all about my time in the trumpet administration people when a meteorite another book about polycentric, think what
americans need today is this. We need we discussion a meaningful, a respectful discussion about very serious challenges to our security, our prosperity and in our influence in the world. President trump, old and mc master when his first national security adviser quit after twenty four days, Michael flynn had lied about negotiating with russia before MR trump was inaugurated, the president would make master the job the first time they met. What did you say, family, advise you will a wide range of of viewpoints. Many comments and urged me to do it and said here is an unconventional president whose whose needs your your help. Others urged me not to do it and I think a lot of it was because of the year, the unconditional disruptive and, as some would say, affair nature of present president trump. It was an easy decision. It was a very easy decision. For me,
uniform changed, but not his soldiers view confront adversaries and support iraq and Afghanistan as long as it takes to ensure their stability but as in all administrations, the west wing was riven by rivals. There are certainly one group of people there, who are there to serve the elected president and assure the country. I think there are other groups there, though, as well as second group, that is there? we instead of providing options. Do you like the precedent that they really want to and their narrow agendas, and then I think, there's a third group and It is true, probably of any administration who can stem cells in the role of shaping the country and maybe the world from the present as well. trying to save the world from the president? No, it was my duty to help the president come to his own decisions decisions for a world of trouble, principally Should this information and election meddling and repressive and aggressive china
What do we misunderstand about china? Chinese communist party there, driven really by two fundamental thanks first of all, is the fear of losing control. That's why they're obsessed with control. That's why you see them extending in tightening their exclusive grip on power with this orwellian technologically enable surveillance, police state and their also determined to achieve national rejuvenation to take stage in the world is the rest of the twenty century, essentially a cold war between the united states and china. It's a competition for sure it doesnt replicate the cold war so the union in an exact way, but it's a competition hauser different, it's tougher its tougher, because our economies are intertwined way that gives tremendous course of power to the chinese communist party describe their approach as cooperation cooperation with a war of access to their market in short,
profits and then courses courses to adhere to the worldview. And to make concessions that allow them. To achieve competitive advantage against us. We must understand about russia, whereas china wants to harness its strength and rate, exclusionary areas primacy and shell, america, russia it's too weak to do that. What putin wants to do is he he wants to drag all of us down right. He wants to. He wants to polarize us pit us against each other, reduce our confidence in our democratic principles and institutions. And processes on afghanistan, MC master, convinced a reluctant president to send more troops mcgann. Sir says Afghanistan became america's longest conflict because she the term wishful thinking led three president's too by one year wars. Twenty times over, we went under this illusion that the war was going to be fast, cheap, efficient and now
turned our attention to the war in Iraq. We kind of forgot about afghanistan, but guess what our enemy forget about it, and so we have strategies and policies based on what we would prefer to do, rather than The situation demands but in the end mr trump preferred to get out after MC master left the president, abandoned the build up You must have come away from that experience. Thanking the president might make a decision, but it's not likely to stick well. that's exactly what my experience magnetic is critical of afghan peace talks that began this month. Mr in his view, is made too many concessions. You say in the book that the president cheapened the sacrifice of the twenty three hundred americans who have died in afghanistan so far
Well, I think what he did with this new policy is, in effect, is partnering. With the taliban and in many ways the afghan government- and so I thought That is its an unwise policy and I think what we require, in afghanistan is assisting. Commitment to help the afghan government and help afghan security forces continue to bear the brunt of this fight, which is critical in mcmaster's view to prevent another nine eleven historic innovation to pose a threat to us- are stronger. Now. Then they were on September tenth, two thousand and one those who perpetrated mass murder, attacks of nine eleven Where the mujahideen era alumni of the other, just as the soviet occupation in Afghanistan today we are facing an Al Qaeda. And in isis alumni that is orders of magnitude greater than that vision.
in europe alone I ever was, and they also have access to much more destructive capabilities. president says that he drawing down our troops in afghanistan to about five thousand and withdrawing twelve thousand from germany. I think these are both being mistakes. I think their mistakes because there are consistent with I think sentiment that you see really across both political parties for retrenchment or withdraw from complex problems. Foresees people are tired of these war or get through their tired of the wars, and we lack confidence. We lack confidence because we haven't had, I think, sound. strategies and policies in place, and because we're losing faith in these efforts I don't blame them as for the present master told us, foreign policy was not his favourite subject. Mc master would brief to the the minutes of MR trumps attention. Then Jim shoot from the hip. The president was speed,
to reporters on air force, one in late. Twenty Seventeen, the president, was asked, about the russian cyber assault on the twenty sixteen election. Mr trump said Of russian president putin quote. Every time you see me, he says I didn't do that and I We believe that when he tells me that he means it, Reaction after the president said, on my reaction was one of surprise, disappointment disbelieve lay, the same day the president went before Cameras and said he didn't mean it they have surprised There's any conflict on this one so there is that I believe he believes that did you. have a hand in the president's retraction I did and others we had a conversation with it with the present. Afterwards we send your answer that question will be misconstrued as a complete denial, of of russian meddling. When we know it's, it's incontrovertible, it's just it's just a fact. MC master also sticks to facts on climate change.
foresees a world destabilized by fire flood thirst and hunger. What is so sad these days, is that we are so engaged in in partisan inf at fighting against each other, that we don't take the time just to inventory what we can agree on. Can we agree that climate change is bad? Yes, can we agree that it's man made? Yes? Can we agree that we can do something about it. Certainly we can. The president says: climate change is a hoax. Well, it's not a hoax. It's not a hoax as for the pandemic. Mcmurphy you told us there was a national security pandemic plan, but its first two components failed. The first of those was identify the epidemic at its source and contain locally. Well, thanks to the chinese communist party, its obligations pressure of the news of the virus. We couldn't do that. The second part of that is mobile biomedical response and I
What we see now is there are frailties in that were in that response, supply change, the prioritized just in time, delivery and efficiency. Instead of the stockpiles we needed, the pledges were over reliant. On china from from a ppp perspective, the personal data of women as well as pharmaceuticals, while encouraging threats to the nation make master could not master the threats to his job. He lasted thirteen months, his armor pierced in part by a social media missile hashtag fire mc master. who was behind pash tag fire mc master. What was it was a combination of of I think. These sorts of people who saw me is an impediment to their agenda and it was pain that started domestically, but then was reinforced by by an adversary reinforced by the kremlin. The russians were behind hashtag fire mc mash when they were full participants in it, but I don't think they started it
but but many people who operate you know in this sort of venomous social media environment, an end and bloggers and pseudo media I'm also initiated by the campaign campaign joined ultimately by some in the white house who offered the three, our general an inch, to have to leave the battlefield, there were people who wanted to resign from the annex c and dangled a fourth star in front of you to get you to do it. Yes,. And you told them, and now thank yous moderate, but but about ten retired at the enemy toward duty, whatever the internet, towards reducing the whales, his were ended with a tweet. The president, thanking me master for his service, today at age. Fifty eight, the. tired general who did not have stars and his eyes is teeth. It stamford his book
is long on policy short on intrigue, make master decline. To exploit the fractures of the nation, because our visions, he advises are the greatest threat to national security, we're in environment, where, as well at each other's throats, the hasn't stopped these checks. is our to our security and our prosperity and our What in the world and their growing, I think more severe while we preoccupied with our own vitriolic partisan discourse
I'm a rock and I'm back with season three of my pot cast mopeds, wearies, I'm looking forward to introducing you to more of my favorite people and things all of them dead from a top dog and ninety nine, these television. What happened? What story wishbone to a former top banana in the world of two nineteen sixty when the girl Michel was the only banana that we got. They were clearly better, listen to mow bitch wearies wherever you get your part casts It oh drawn was named head football coach of Louisiana state tigers and twenty. Sixteen, the local joke went like this: it's about time. The job went to someone who didn't speak with an accent, see ojo. Iran is a native caging, with perpetually hoarse voice born alibi. You not far from batten rouge. Coach always he's known, struck a chord with the less you fan base. First, with his flight and familiarity, and then by winning the tie
so the reigning national champions. Now, the real challenge, defending a title amid a global pandemic college. Football is an existential crisis just this week when the sea, and would normally be well underway, major conferences we're still debating whether and how to state football. This fall a member Well, the southeastern conference. L S! U forges ahead. the team deals with covert protocols and shifting lineups without osier on making the most of this new reality. What you say man five days a week, were we, frenzied our iD Ojo works. The phones inside the war room of Alice use football facility of general way. The pandemic prevents top highschool prospects from visiting campus, but teams can now call recruits as often they like Johnny another in osier on likes to call them alive.
what are the best? Why receive an account to do? This is a coach who made his name is much for his recruiting savvy. As for his excellent no evaded Rivers you right Would you be offered the sports version of speed dating Alice? You would know as power our you know. I love you but power. Our left, a low, bow what do you know? It is a lot of energy man and those phones are blown up and I get to talk that they were in thirty minutes. We talked to thirty. One recruits wasn't important your constant contact with these young people. Days before you get dollar once a week, but if you don't call him every day, you know texas. Today, europe, emotions every day, sometimes two or three times a day. If you forgot someone says no, what your, what your play on will find a way. No that way, but I'm gonna find a way you're going to get that key dallas. You have to tell me know about one thousand
What I love, you might call twenty nineteen the year of yes from louisiana state, the tigers captain under season by winning the national championship, their quarterback Joe borough, one, the heisman trope another tiger took home meal board for best receive that's true marches. In April nfl teams drafted, Fourteen players from Alice, you tying a modern record for one school, but for all the talent coursing through batten, room. The sun here rises and set with come Joe. He didn't get much of a victory lamp unless you count five m rights to work. Radio blaring two months after ellis use, did season covert hid in osier on was coming to work alone, not able to follow me we were invited inside jealousy football for a few days in august, when Louisiana had one of the highest coded rates in the country.
If the players were back in the gym, but they weren't training in a bubble. Everyone here goes home at night, the team tracks players, temperatures administers regular covert tests, isolates those who test positive in quarantines. Anyone who comes into contact with the virus vessel over really, unless you hasn't disclosed figures but odor on said this week, most of his players have had cobit how much of your day to day is devoted to this virus. What we do we have a protocol here and I'll follow whatever it is. They told me to do I'll, do and then I'll coach and are really but tvs Article six weeks, though, that there is a lot of stuff going on there and look I understand, but before right now The job was cautious, full body and you've been outspoken. You want there to be football. Yes, all the other football's good for everybody else in practice not get sick. I've seen him get sick last couple of days and come back. You'd have their ten days
indeed, but the actual positive ways that goes out a little cough. So I think that the young players, when they do get sick get over quick. Have you come to grips with the idea that there might not be football? This fall y'all, don't let it into my mind don't even think about it, though, but I know, although it could happen, I know unless you were prepared his guys to play, we didn't blake were ready to tag. His baby stay stay now, you're going to be patient. Even in these first practices, the coach insisted on intensity, durant, We watch things, get a little heated out there, the other day, no balls, no helmets. No one has a bout of irrational power, but you gotta have villagers, said hart nice job. I notice you use the word energy a lot. If it's important you you why I hate what if it's quiet it ain't good to me, there's no quiet in his schedule after a fourteen our day, we thrilled him to a local boxing.
The oder on manages to conform to every cliche, about football coach and, at the same time smash the more for starters His voice, o drawn sounds like a man who gargoyles crawfish shell and garnish is that rests with occasion, accent your angle corner me, big boy. We put the obvious question to tyler shelving people, a difference of lying there that voice you always interest. we said. Yes, I I actually can understand, because I'm a louisiana got anyone imitate his voice on the team everybody dies, you do it on the sea. It may yeah your big big t victory, is the first one of your scholarship. You always had that distinct voice. Your think is grown throughout the europe a lot of time when it gets gravelly because it gets wore out but I think that is something that our users, or too is loud, is demanding. Take control
Eight years of coaching forge that ras, but Ojo accident was born here in le foosh perish but only five miles down the by you from that route. The Arms are cages descended from french canadians who were exiled to louisiana swamps and seventeen hundreds and have proudly resisted assimilation ever since when we start by Koko's mother cocoa insisted we eat before we talk in really who were we to resist seafood gumbo? This is absolutely no. Thank you. I appreciate that the family law- to play football delete, enclosure on senior would coached the local kids on a field across from their house. All that was the plague. of the whole nibbler. The gate was, Besides, I was in once a while. You go have on your end, edge of her sons,
six, two and two hundred and seventy pounds, but a time it was fifteen. A star player on both often end deepens in high school, the south. tarpaulins with nineteen. Seventy seven louisiana stay champions, but saturday's were all about college football. What did Elvis football mean to this family. It was a big, lord of all, found we let it wasn't so we could go and got it again, We could not afford these euro devils an outing, it was expect you couldn't get a ticket even when his and asked for tickets to now ass. You game it ojo. senior delivered the ultimate pep talk. He says son. We can afford the limitation of. If you keep on working, you won't need a ticket.
Tiger stayed osier on, did gideon tell us, you gave him a football scholarship but homesick and overwhelmed by the big canvas he quit after two weeks, and I tell them after the bite the next day. With that it woke me up at six o'clock in the morning. So let's go go to work. I was digging ditches at people as an aside the world, you quitter, you couldn't take it if the worst animal life and methodically There was a dick, he did his way back batten rule of course, but it took him thirty five years to go, though seventy five miles firstly transferred to play for north western state and then after graduation took volunteer, coating while moonlighting in the hull of a shrimp boat, My wish oval shovel five in the morning the tenement shobo battle the phone rang, the old, hey
and they have an assistant strict cause, job or arkansas. Do you want it holo? I took the shrimp shovel full throated by you as it hale yeah. He said: okay, man, you gotta, be about money, as I got one question voice. What I said, what the hell's orchestra he spent the next quarter century, pin bawling around the college. Football landscape resign, from miami while he struggled with alcoholism, sober he says for twenty years.
IRAN has still been dealt his share of blows by the profession in two thousand and thirteen. Despite his success as an interim coach for u s c, he was denied the full time job. You wanna hear a story. I heard of the players loved you, the fans loved you, the coaches loved you and the high ups said. We need the kind of guy who got golf clubs in his trouser correct, though a cook about a culture clover. You think, where you're from even your your accent influenced that decision for sure no question what are some of the stereotypes or misconceptions? People might have about canaan, billy storm not worthy. Now, where we now back home in Louisiana Coach- oh isn't just understood, he's appreciate oh gironde- was hired as an ellis. You assistant in twenty fifteen and promoted to head coach the following year earning an an salary. That's now swelled to seven million dollars,
osier, on cemented his status when the tigers beat rival alabama for the first time in a year, delighting fans, one in particular, Do you remember about Ellis you beating alabama? Last year you I love their stadium, I don't care for toward the people, say. economy loud and bolsters, but when We warn joy living out of it. I'm getting a sense of what it must be like to sit on the couch and watch a game with you. Come on down and yet for all the earmarks of a fairy tale, the story is not entirely tidy within days of our visit. Usa today reported that in two thousand and sixteen in l s, u player, allegedly, sexually assaulted, to classmates osier on was then in assisting coach at the school. He told us he did know about the alleged assault. More broadly,
hoosier on helms atop program. At a time when the ethics of big money college sports are being challenged, some powerhouse football programmes making of a hundred million dollars in annual revenue, mostly from giant television rights contracts. The incentive for schools to salvage this season and play through the pandemic is clear. The incentive for players is less clear, is play. These are unpaid, their young, then all of a union bear hugging, the other guy. You think you're asking too much of the global sexual no, I don't think so, limited by the unpaid stuff and everything When you said you get just like others to get an opportunity in life, a lot of money coming into this program, but these kids, who get an opportunity to go in education. It'll network, a lot of our guys are gone going to the nfl are making a lot of money, but that's that's just the stuff that they gotta take, but some players have decided risk outweighs opera
Members are more chase the award winning wide receiver and tyler. I'll be in the lineman within weeks of our visit, both decided not to play this sideways season and instead look ahead to the twenty twenty one, and if our draft with kick off one week away ass, he see team who bump covert testing to three times a week. Players who test positive will have to pass cardiac evaluations before they can return to play attendance at ellis. You games will be capped at twenty five percent work
when he five thousand fans and just as crucially no tailgating on the day we left town osier on, let us inside tiger stadium, just ass, his father predicted no ticket required. While I regret that I will follow very government that they say opponents dreams die on this field. As for the home grown coaches, dreams of playing college football as usual here this fall well. Those may be fragile too.
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