Don't Diss a Legendary Coach: Fuente Has Seen It Gone Wrong Before

I found an interesting note about Oklahoma's 1995 season (when Fuente was a redshirt freshman there): Then Oklahoma head coach Howard Schasldkksda;lkjger was rather arrogant about where he would end up in school history saying "They will write books and make movies about my time here." In a delicious twist he ended up resigning after only one year of being the head coach with a 5-5-1 record.

The real thing I want to point out is Schasdfjlasdfger also apparently angered the entire Oklahoma fanbase by claiming he would make everyone forget about former legendary coaches Bud Wilkinson and Barry Switzer.

Since Fuente was on that football team and saw all of this go down first hand, I wonder how that affected his thought process in terms of replacing Beamer as head coach here at VT? He seems to have gotten out of his way to honoring Beamer (#25 jersey on special teams) and has acted generally humble when asked about what it meant to him to replace Beamer.

Sauce:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football#Howard_Schnellen...

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