Football is in the air and we here at the MVPpodcast have got it bad. We are beginning to tire of watching practice and look forward to seeing some live football.
Yeah, we’ve got it bad. So we aim this week to give you a taste of what it will be like in the fall.
When you roam the sidelines at Friday night football games one meets a lot of people and it is a good idea to get to know them if you are a writer because many of them are simply great stories.
Getting to know these people is one of the untold pleasures of being a sportswriter.
To celebrate that fact and to provide a sterling example, for week two of season four of the MVPpodcast we bring you the totally unexpected: a special MVPpodcast extra edition with Dr. Bob Saltmarsh of Springfield, Illinois.
Unexpected, if that is the way you want to look at it.
Or perhaps expected if you chose to look at it as Dr. Bob Saltmarsh, the inspirational leader of the legendary 1948 Ohio class B state championship football squad from Milton-Union High School;
Or as his being a former offensive lineman who played (and kicked) for both Woody Hayes and Ara Parseghian at Miami University;
Or as his being the former 11-year head football coach at Lemon-Monroe High School;
Or as his having been the faculty representative to the athletic department at Eastern Illinois University–the guy who actually wrote their NCAA Division I proposal;
Or as his being a licensed psychologist who could offer us a different perspective on any number of people or events in Ohio sports history.
Bob Saltmarsh is all of those things and more and he is here today in a special MVPpodcast EXTRA.
We’re all about free stuff around here, so here, have some more free stuff.
We’ll talk about everything from getting recruited by Woody Hayes , to playing for Ara Parseghian, playing with Johnny Pont, playing against Sid Gilman, and winning it all with the 1948 Milton-Union Bulldogs.
Then we’ll psychoanalyze a host of unsuspecting victims from LeBron James, Tiger Woods, and Art Schlicter to Jim Tressel, Luke Fickell, John Diebler and more.
