If the Napoleon Complex is the curse of the short man, then the Polian Complex must be the curse of the man who shuns privilege.Or maybe more accurately, it’s the curse of the son of the man who shuns privilege.
Brian Polian and his two brothers, Chris and Dennis, were raised in a home of football royalty. Their father, Bill Polian, was a general manager with three NFL franchises, including the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Dad never let the boys get fitted for a crown.
“When I went in, and when my two brothers entered football essentially at the age of 14, we were not too good to do any job,” Brian Polian, Nevada’s 38-year-old first-year coach, said recently. “We were hazed, abused — had to do from dirty laundry to packing a cooler full of beer for the equipment staff. The beauty of having been brought up like that is you have a great appreciation for everybody in the organization.”
If you remember those Bills teams — led by quarterback Jim Kelly, running back Thurman Thomas, wide receiver Andre Reed and defensive end Bruce Smith, to name a few — then you knew Brian Polian before he was named Chris Ault’s successor in January. You at least knew his face.
He had pimples then, but essentially it’s the same face he has now, 20-some years later. He still has a full head of blonde hair and the boyish looks he had when he was a ball boy, standing next to Bills coach Marv Levy on the sidelines on Sundays.
Whenever the Bills were on TV from about 1990 to 1993, there was Brian, a pretty good, tough, high school linebacker at the time, handling wires, headsets and whatever else Levy needed.
“Those are some of the fondest memories of my life,” Brian said after a recent practice, where he prepared to lead the Wolf Pack as a first-time head coach into the team’s season opener Saturday at UCLA.
Brian recalled one Monday night game in Seattle in which the team returned home right after the game, per usual protocol. The flight arrived in Buffalo at 6 o’clock the next morning.
“My old man took me right to school,” Brian said with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Hey, you made up your work for Monday, but you don’t get Tuesday off.’”
Brian wouldn’t go so far as to say he was the BMOC at St. Francis High near Buffalo, but it had to be pretty cool being the guy everyone saw standing next to Coach Levy on Sundays.
“I had these experiences that not a lot of people got to have, but with that came responsibility,” Brian said. “It was neat. It made it really hard to tell the teacher I had the flu when everybody in Buffalo was watching … and I was standing next to the head coach.”
They were Brian’s formative years, and the association made a lasting impression.
“When I was 14, 15 and I’m there at training camp every day and I see it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “That’s when I got bit by the bug.”
Levy, 88 and retired, wouldn’t go so far as to say he saw “head coach,” written all over the young Polian, who built his résumé as a special teams coordinator, most notably with Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M. But Levy said he was always impressed with him.
“My impression then was he was a bright, interested, focused type of person,” Levy said from his home in Chicago. “I did follow his career. I saw him rise, and I was extremely pleased but not surprised by it.”
Levy, whose first head-coaching job was at New Mexico in the late 1950s, said he recommended Polian “very strongly” for the Lobos’ vacancy that went to Bob Davie in 2012.
“As Brian began coaching, I could see a bright future,” Levy said. “You need some good breaks, but I could see a bright future.”
He was not the only one. Along the way, Brian Polian has worked for or with some great football minds, including NFL coaches Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers and Chris Palmer, and college coaches Jim Harbaugh, Charlie Weis and Kevin Sumlin.
“As a young coach, he was thirsty for knowledge,” said Palmer, a longtime friend of Bill Polian and who coached in college and the NFL for more than 40 years. “… His personality is key. He’s outgoing. He goes the extra mile. He’s a guy that is always working to get better. Brian is one of those guys I would always recommend, and he always impressed me with the way he went about his business.”
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2013年8月25日 星期日
Polian's road to head coach
If the Napoleon Complex is the curse of the short man, then the Polian Complex must be the curse of the man who shuns privilege.
Or maybe more accurately, it’s the curse of the son of the man who shuns privilege.
Brian Polian and his two brothers, Chris and Dennis, were raised in a home of football royalty. Their father, Bill Polian, was a general manager with three NFL franchises, including the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Dad never let the boys get fitted for a crown.
“When I went in, and when my two brothers entered football essentially at the age of 14, we were not too good to do any job,” Brian Polian, Nevada’s 38-year-old first-year coach, said recently. “We were hazed, abused — had to do from dirty laundry to packing a cooler full of beer for the equipment staff. The beauty of having been brought up like that is you have a great appreciation for everybody in the organization.”
If you remember those Bills teams — led by quarterback Jim Kelly, running back Thurman Thomas, wide receiver Andre Reed and defensive end Bruce Smith, to name a few — then you knew Brian Polian before he was named Chris Ault’s successor in January. You at least knew his face.
He had pimples then, but essentially it’s the same face he has now, 20-some years later. He still has a full head of blonde hair and the boyish looks he had when he was a ball boy, standing next to Bills coach Marv Levy on the sidelines on Sundays.
Whenever the Bills were on TV from about 1990 to 1993, there was Brian, a pretty good, tough, high school linebacker at the time, handling wires, headsets and whatever else Levy needed.
“Those are some of the fondest memories of my life,” Brian said after a recent practice, where he prepared to lead the Wolf Pack as a first-time head coach into the team’s season opener Saturday at UCLA.
Brian recalled one Monday night game in Seattle in which the team returned home right after the game, per usual protocol. The flight arrived in Buffalo at 6 o’clock the next morning.
“My old man took me right to school,” Brian said with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Hey, you made up your work for Monday, but you don’t get Tuesday off.’”
Brian wouldn’t go so far as to say he was the BMOC at St. Francis High near Buffalo, but it had to be pretty cool being the guy everyone saw standing next to Coach Levy on Sundays.
“I had these experiences that not a lot of people got to have, but with that came responsibility,” Brian said. “It was neat. It made it really hard to tell the teacher I had the flu when everybody in Buffalo was watching … and I was standing next to the head coach.”
They were Brian’s formative years, and the association made a lasting impression.
“When I was 14, 15 and I’m there at training camp every day and I see it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “That’s when I got bit by the bug.”
Levy, 88 and retired, wouldn’t go so far as to say he saw “head coach,” written all over the young Polian, who built his résumé as a special teams coordinator, most notably with Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M. But Levy said he was always impressed with him.
“My impression then was he was a bright, interested, focused type of person,” Levy said from his home in Chicago. “I did follow his career. I saw him rise, and I was extremely pleased but not surprised by it.”
Levy, whose first head-coaching job was at New Mexico in the late 1950s, said he recommended Polian “very strongly” for the Lobos’ vacancy that went to Bob Davie in 2012.
“As Brian began coaching, I could see a bright future,” Levy said. “You need some good breaks, but I could see a bright future.”
He was not the only one. Along the way, Brian Polian has worked for or with some great football minds, including NFL coaches Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers and Chris Palmer, and college coaches Jim Harbaugh, Charlie Weis and Kevin Sumlin.
“As a young coach, he was thirsty for knowledge,” said Palmer, a longtime friend of Bill Polian who coached in college and the NFL for more than 40 years. “… His personality is key. He’s outgoing. He goes the extra mile. He’s a guy that is always working to get better. Brian is one of those guys I would always recommend, and he always impressed me with the way he went about his business.”
“I’ve had a chance to watch him coach, and every place he’s been, he’s been successful. He has an excellent personality for recruiting. People just gravitate to him.”
As Brian was finishing up his senior season as a linebacker at John Carroll University, a Division III school near Cleveland, in 1996, he and his dad began to map out a plan. Bill was the GM of the expansion Carolina Panthers, and Kevin Steele was the Panthers’ linebackers coach.
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Or maybe more accurately, it’s the curse of the son of the man who shuns privilege.
Brian Polian and his two brothers, Chris and Dennis, were raised in a home of football royalty. Their father, Bill Polian, was a general manager with three NFL franchises, including the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Dad never let the boys get fitted for a crown.
“When I went in, and when my two brothers entered football essentially at the age of 14, we were not too good to do any job,” Brian Polian, Nevada’s 38-year-old first-year coach, said recently. “We were hazed, abused — had to do from dirty laundry to packing a cooler full of beer for the equipment staff. The beauty of having been brought up like that is you have a great appreciation for everybody in the organization.”
If you remember those Bills teams — led by quarterback Jim Kelly, running back Thurman Thomas, wide receiver Andre Reed and defensive end Bruce Smith, to name a few — then you knew Brian Polian before he was named Chris Ault’s successor in January. You at least knew his face.
He had pimples then, but essentially it’s the same face he has now, 20-some years later. He still has a full head of blonde hair and the boyish looks he had when he was a ball boy, standing next to Bills coach Marv Levy on the sidelines on Sundays.
Whenever the Bills were on TV from about 1990 to 1993, there was Brian, a pretty good, tough, high school linebacker at the time, handling wires, headsets and whatever else Levy needed.
“Those are some of the fondest memories of my life,” Brian said after a recent practice, where he prepared to lead the Wolf Pack as a first-time head coach into the team’s season opener Saturday at UCLA.
Brian recalled one Monday night game in Seattle in which the team returned home right after the game, per usual protocol. The flight arrived in Buffalo at 6 o’clock the next morning.
“My old man took me right to school,” Brian said with a chuckle. “He said, ‘Hey, you made up your work for Monday, but you don’t get Tuesday off.’”
Brian wouldn’t go so far as to say he was the BMOC at St. Francis High near Buffalo, but it had to be pretty cool being the guy everyone saw standing next to Coach Levy on Sundays.
“I had these experiences that not a lot of people got to have, but with that came responsibility,” Brian said. “It was neat. It made it really hard to tell the teacher I had the flu when everybody in Buffalo was watching … and I was standing next to the head coach.”
They were Brian’s formative years, and the association made a lasting impression.
“When I was 14, 15 and I’m there at training camp every day and I see it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “That’s when I got bit by the bug.”
Levy, 88 and retired, wouldn’t go so far as to say he saw “head coach,” written all over the young Polian, who built his résumé as a special teams coordinator, most notably with Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M. But Levy said he was always impressed with him.
“My impression then was he was a bright, interested, focused type of person,” Levy said from his home in Chicago. “I did follow his career. I saw him rise, and I was extremely pleased but not surprised by it.”
Levy, whose first head-coaching job was at New Mexico in the late 1950s, said he recommended Polian “very strongly” for the Lobos’ vacancy that went to Bob Davie in 2012.
“As Brian began coaching, I could see a bright future,” Levy said. “You need some good breaks, but I could see a bright future.”
He was not the only one. Along the way, Brian Polian has worked for or with some great football minds, including NFL coaches Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers and Chris Palmer, and college coaches Jim Harbaugh, Charlie Weis and Kevin Sumlin.
“As a young coach, he was thirsty for knowledge,” said Palmer, a longtime friend of Bill Polian who coached in college and the NFL for more than 40 years. “… His personality is key. He’s outgoing. He goes the extra mile. He’s a guy that is always working to get better. Brian is one of those guys I would always recommend, and he always impressed me with the way he went about his business.”
“I’ve had a chance to watch him coach, and every place he’s been, he’s been successful. He has an excellent personality for recruiting. People just gravitate to him.”
As Brian was finishing up his senior season as a linebacker at John Carroll University, a Division III school near Cleveland, in 1996, he and his dad began to map out a plan. Bill was the GM of the expansion Carolina Panthers, and Kevin Steele was the Panthers’ linebackers coach.
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2013年5月30日 星期四
Keeping it clean on the home front
This week I’m enjoying a five-day break from work. Well that’s not entirely true. I’m enjoying five days away from work with the paper, but have found plenty to keep me employed around the house. Living on my own and not inclined to spend my hard-earned wages on a butler or maid, work around the Burgess abode tends to build up.
I was away camping a couple of weekends back which meant a double dose of washing. I was fortunate our summer fell on Saturday, so the washing machine was put into overtime mode and the clothes line filled thrice. And thanks to the sunshine and a light breeze, that left three piles of dried washing gazing up at me from the settee. Sunday’s weather wasn’t so good, so out came the iron.
Strangely, I don’t mind ironing. With a good offering of political chit-chat on the telly or wireless, I can whiz through it without really noticing the time on a Sunday morning. If the telly isn’t that good, I can let my mind wander and put the world to rights. Perhaps some of those rowdy House of Commons debates – Holyrood, I have to say, is a bit more civilised – would be better conducted and more productive if they took place over an ironing board. Just a thought.
So the first few days of my break were spent working on the domestic front. I’ve done a bit of dusting, put a dozen or so books that I’d had out for reference back in their proper places in the bookcase; cleaned the loo and vacuumed the rooms. I looked at cleaning the windows but as I could see through them, decided that no further action was needed in this respect at the moment. So, that’s the chores done. It’s 3.30 on Tuesday afternoon and I now feel ready to enjoy what’s left of my break.
My latest check of the weather forecast reveals a reasonable indication of fine weather for the next few days. So that will probably mean a couple of nights in my trusty tent. It did me proud at Copshaw the other weekend when the heavens truly opened and I remained dry.
I have always enjoyed camping. My tent is just the right size for me, my sleeping bag, a couple of changes of clothes and a torch. And if you make a guddle in a tent it doesn’t take much to make it tidy again. I don’t do proper camp sites. They are too organised for me. I like to go wild. Sadly, the weather over the past couple of years has meant the tent has had fewer airings than I would have liked. So, fingers crossed for this year.
I don’t like David Cameron or his politics. But I had some sympathy for him this week when he was criticised for sticking to his holiday plans despite the horror that was the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby outside his barracks at Woolwich in London. It shocked every decent-minded person in the country.
This was a terror killing. And terror is all about disrupting people’s lives. Putting folk on edge, forcing changes to our daily pattern of lives. Making things awkward. That’s terrorism.
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I was away camping a couple of weekends back which meant a double dose of washing. I was fortunate our summer fell on Saturday, so the washing machine was put into overtime mode and the clothes line filled thrice. And thanks to the sunshine and a light breeze, that left three piles of dried washing gazing up at me from the settee. Sunday’s weather wasn’t so good, so out came the iron.
Strangely, I don’t mind ironing. With a good offering of political chit-chat on the telly or wireless, I can whiz through it without really noticing the time on a Sunday morning. If the telly isn’t that good, I can let my mind wander and put the world to rights. Perhaps some of those rowdy House of Commons debates – Holyrood, I have to say, is a bit more civilised – would be better conducted and more productive if they took place over an ironing board. Just a thought.
So the first few days of my break were spent working on the domestic front. I’ve done a bit of dusting, put a dozen or so books that I’d had out for reference back in their proper places in the bookcase; cleaned the loo and vacuumed the rooms. I looked at cleaning the windows but as I could see through them, decided that no further action was needed in this respect at the moment. So, that’s the chores done. It’s 3.30 on Tuesday afternoon and I now feel ready to enjoy what’s left of my break.
My latest check of the weather forecast reveals a reasonable indication of fine weather for the next few days. So that will probably mean a couple of nights in my trusty tent. It did me proud at Copshaw the other weekend when the heavens truly opened and I remained dry.
I have always enjoyed camping. My tent is just the right size for me, my sleeping bag, a couple of changes of clothes and a torch. And if you make a guddle in a tent it doesn’t take much to make it tidy again. I don’t do proper camp sites. They are too organised for me. I like to go wild. Sadly, the weather over the past couple of years has meant the tent has had fewer airings than I would have liked. So, fingers crossed for this year.
I don’t like David Cameron or his politics. But I had some sympathy for him this week when he was criticised for sticking to his holiday plans despite the horror that was the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby outside his barracks at Woolwich in London. It shocked every decent-minded person in the country.
This was a terror killing. And terror is all about disrupting people’s lives. Putting folk on edge, forcing changes to our daily pattern of lives. Making things awkward. That’s terrorism.
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2013年5月15日 星期三
Fire contract OKed with 8.5 percent raise
Other changes to the union contract include increasing the firefighters' co-pays for prescription drugs with the difference to be covered by a Health Reimbursement Account. Both the fire department and township will each save $12,500 annually because of this change.
"Everybody has to be on the same program," Spisz explained. "So, the township board and the township employees will also have to change to the same program."
Full-time firefighters who choose not to take health insurance through the department will be paid 50 percent of the $7,835 annual premium cost that the township would have paid to cover a single person. This represents an increase from the 40 percent payment under the previous contract.
What didn't change is the fact that full-time firefighters will continue to pay 5 percent of their health insurance premiums and do so for the next three years. They've been paying 5 percent since Jan. 1. 2012.
Instead of being paid a $750 lump sum uniform allowance every January, beginning next year, the fire department will provide a uniform bank allowance of $750 per union firefighter and any unused portion of that annual allowance will be considered a savings for the department.
Effective this year, the township will begin providing dry cleaning machine services for all full-time firefighter uniforms.
The township also agreed to a one-time purchase of Class A dress uniforms for all firefighters with at least five years of full-time service to the department.
"(They give us) a more professional look when we go to events," said Balinski, who noted the dress uniform symbolizes they're "a part of that brotherhood" of firefighters.
"It's customary that Class A (dress) uniforms are given to firefighters," Curtis said. "They attend funerals and ceremonies to help build pride in the community and pay homage to fallen firefighters. It helps them represent our community with dignity."
"I equated it to my kid (who's in the U.S. Air Force)," he added. "They gave him a full set of uniforms – one for battle, one for dress and one for casual."
Curtis noted the savings from the prescription co-pay change and the new uniform bank allowance should cover the cost of the dress uniforms and dry cleaning services.
"Should is a good word," he said. "If the savings doesn't cover it, the fire department budget will be impacted."
"We went into it as a cost neutral (change)," Spisz said. "If (the fire union) wanted anything that was a cost increase to the township – that was outside of anything already approved by the board for themselves – it would have to be cost neutral."
In other words, there had to be a corresponding cost savings in one area in order to cover an increase in another area.
Supervisor Bill Dunn thanked the township's bargaining team for "spending all their time fighting these guys tooth-and-nail."
"I'd also like to thank the guys, our firefighters, for doing the same – acting in good faith and coming up with an agreement."
"Everybody has to be on the same program," Spisz explained. "So, the township board and the township employees will also have to change to the same program."
Full-time firefighters who choose not to take health insurance through the department will be paid 50 percent of the $7,835 annual premium cost that the township would have paid to cover a single person. This represents an increase from the 40 percent payment under the previous contract.
What didn't change is the fact that full-time firefighters will continue to pay 5 percent of their health insurance premiums and do so for the next three years. They've been paying 5 percent since Jan. 1. 2012.
Instead of being paid a $750 lump sum uniform allowance every January, beginning next year, the fire department will provide a uniform bank allowance of $750 per union firefighter and any unused portion of that annual allowance will be considered a savings for the department.
Effective this year, the township will begin providing dry cleaning machine services for all full-time firefighter uniforms.
The township also agreed to a one-time purchase of Class A dress uniforms for all firefighters with at least five years of full-time service to the department.
"(They give us) a more professional look when we go to events," said Balinski, who noted the dress uniform symbolizes they're "a part of that brotherhood" of firefighters.
"It's customary that Class A (dress) uniforms are given to firefighters," Curtis said. "They attend funerals and ceremonies to help build pride in the community and pay homage to fallen firefighters. It helps them represent our community with dignity."
"I equated it to my kid (who's in the U.S. Air Force)," he added. "They gave him a full set of uniforms – one for battle, one for dress and one for casual."
Curtis noted the savings from the prescription co-pay change and the new uniform bank allowance should cover the cost of the dress uniforms and dry cleaning services.
"Should is a good word," he said. "If the savings doesn't cover it, the fire department budget will be impacted."
"We went into it as a cost neutral (change)," Spisz said. "If (the fire union) wanted anything that was a cost increase to the township – that was outside of anything already approved by the board for themselves – it would have to be cost neutral."
In other words, there had to be a corresponding cost savings in one area in order to cover an increase in another area.
Supervisor Bill Dunn thanked the township's bargaining team for "spending all their time fighting these guys tooth-and-nail."
"I'd also like to thank the guys, our firefighters, for doing the same – acting in good faith and coming up with an agreement."
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