05-02-2004, 07:40 PM
This is part of a conversation from the Illini Orange and Blue with a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana Gazette and they are talking about Mike Mallory. Notice the last paragraph.
"Question: On Mallory, have you ever been around a guy who has that kind of presence? As soon as he walks in the room, he gets your attention, talks, acts like a head coach.
Bob Asmussen: Absolutely and a lot of that comes from his background. Here is a guy that won championships, went to bowl games as a player at Michigan and obviously he has the great family background, his dad was a long time successful head coach. So there is really a lot to respect about him plus, he really is a good guy.
No one that I know that has met him, doesn't like him. Forget the football part, that is a great thing to say about anyone as a person.
He has learned from other people, he has two brothers out there that are D-1A assistant coaches, to me, he is destined to be a head coach, probably pretty soon.
He could take Joe Novak's place at Northern when Joe decides he is ready to play golf full-time. He is destined to be a head coach and I think he will be good at it also."
"Question: On Mallory, have you ever been around a guy who has that kind of presence? As soon as he walks in the room, he gets your attention, talks, acts like a head coach.
Bob Asmussen: Absolutely and a lot of that comes from his background. Here is a guy that won championships, went to bowl games as a player at Michigan and obviously he has the great family background, his dad was a long time successful head coach. So there is really a lot to respect about him plus, he really is a good guy.
No one that I know that has met him, doesn't like him. Forget the football part, that is a great thing to say about anyone as a person.
He has learned from other people, he has two brothers out there that are D-1A assistant coaches, to me, he is destined to be a head coach, probably pretty soon.
He could take Joe Novak's place at Northern when Joe decides he is ready to play golf full-time. He is destined to be a head coach and I think he will be good at it also."