{"id":1963,"date":"2014-08-10T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2014-08-28T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:55:19","slug":"former-u-of-a-coach-dick-tomey-visits-pueblo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/former-u-of-a-coach-dick-tomey-visits-pueblo\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U of A Coach Dick Tomey Visits Pueblo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coach Dick Tomey Speaking To Warrior Football Players<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Courtesy of\u00a0The Arizona Daily Star<\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday, before Dick Tomey spoke to about 300 high school football players and coaches at the Coaches for Charity Kickoff Classic Luncheon, before he spoke with about 400 coaches of all manner at Pima College, he visited Pueblo High School, which hasn\u2019t had a winning season in more than 10 years.<\/p>\n

Tomey wanted to see how Pueblo\u2019s new head coach, Brandon Sanders, is doing in his first year as a prep head coach. From 1992-95, Sanders was one of the best safeties in college football, an absolute anchor of the \u201cDesert Swarm\u201d years.<\/p>\n

Few coaches in Tucson have a more difficult assignment than Sanders does at Pueblo. Tomey met with the Pueblo coaches and the team. His message was simple: You\u2019ll learn more from your struggles than anything else. Don\u2019t get discouraged.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Dick Tomey. Forget his career victory total (183), he was always about people first, football later.<\/p>\n

One of those who attended Saturday\u2019s luncheon at the Double Tree hotel was Tim Davis, who has coached at Alabama, Florida, USC, Wisconsin and for the Miami Dolphins. It was Tomey who gave Davis a career-changing opportunity in 1987, Tomey\u2019s first Arizona season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been hauling meat in Wisconsin,\u201d Davis said. \u201cDick called and gave me an opportunity to be a graduate assistant coach. It changed my life. It all goes back to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomey, who has been out of coaching for three years, is retired and lives in Honolulu. He is 76, looks 56, and has become an in-demand public speaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always look forward to coming back to Tucson,\u201d Tomey said. \u201cI could talk about the fond memories of the people I met here forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of\u00a0The Arizona Daily Star On Saturday, before Dick Tomey spoke to about 300 high school football players and coaches at the Coaches for Charity Kickoff Classic Luncheon, before he spoke with about 400 coaches of all manner at Pima College, he visited Pueblo High School, which hasn\u2019t had a winning season in more than … Continue reading Former U of A Coach Dick Tomey Visits Pueblo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,196,22,37,102],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-vF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}