Congratulations to Coach Beamer on receiving the Nick Saban Legacy Award for his contributions to college football! 👏🦃#ThisIsHome pic.twitter.com/xisep8Wn1K— Virginia Tech Football (@HokiesFB) February 21, 2024
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What an incredible honor. I mean, even with all his well-deserved accolades and achievements over his storied career, I feel like this award ceremony must have truly been a high point for Nick Saban.
Yea but like...shouldn't Saban be winning the Frank Beamer Legacy Award? (O&M glasses all day)
Leg to you. This was actually my very first thought...
Same.
same here
Congrats to CFB, but this whole thing seems backwards. Usually a lifetime achievement award, which is what this is, is named after someone who is deceased or at least retired from their sport for many years.
The nick saban legacy award website: https://www.mmqbc.org/nsla/
Thanks for that link. Vince Dooley won the award posthumously last year.
VT represent!
Pretty sure you are thinking of Bill Dooley, Vince's brother.
Vince's little brother.
Yes, oops. My bad.
Glad to see Beamer being honored.
He certainly deserves another recognition of his great achievements at Virginia Tech.
It is an interesting award model, where they have two honorees, one living, and one who has passed. This years recipients were Frank Beamer and Bobby Bowden.
Time to roll out my favorite quote about Frank Beamer. This is from "Let Me Be Frank" by Jeff Snook.
" Beamer is just the type of guy to make coffee for the office secretaries, move his car so an elderly person could have a better parking spot, take a campus visitor to lunch, buy a gift card for a staff member who became engaged a day earlier, drive 80 miles round-trip to spend an hour with a friend dying of cancer, stand up five times during dinner to have his picture taken with fans, smiling and laughing each time as if he had known those strangers for a lifetime, or tip a waitress 50% of the bill because he overheard her say she was struggling to pay off her student loans.
You know what makes the man special? I witnessed him do all of those things in one day - February 11, 2013 to be exact."
Hell of a sentence, hell of a man!
I had rotator cuff surgery earlier today and the pain meds are making it hard to type but here goes -
Recently my Mom turned 100. The celebration was in November so as many of her children (5), grandchildren (22) and great-grandchildren (25) could be there (my Mom's birthday is 21 December). Many people get congratulations letters from the president, their senator, or the governor when they turn 100 years old. We sent all of them requests but none of them responded. I had asked Tech to contact Frank and gave him some background material. Coach came through! He sent a very gracious letter along with picture of him signing it outside CasselI (it was not machine singed), I'm under no illusions that he sat behind an IBM Selectric and composed it himself, but he came through in a way that none of the others did.. I am not a big contributor. I have only met him once shaking his hand in a line at our 50th reunion. I've told others this story and met a few who had their own stories that illustrate great character. He is my favorite non-family member Hokie.
Yours is a good story about a good fellow.
I used to send letters to the football and basketball coaches every year at the beginning of the seasons to encourage them and let them know I was behind them. One year, I got a really nice letter from Frank thanking me for the bushel of apples I'd sent him that year. Since I didn't, and didn't want some generous Hokie to go unthanked, I wrote to let his office know. I got a really nice follow up letter thanking me for that and while I'm certain he didn't write it, he definitely signed it. My mom went on a cruise one year and Frank was aboard. He signed a nice picture which she gave to me for my annual bowl game shrine, and she always referred to him for the rest of her life as "St. Francis".
Congratulation's Coach.