 


 “He was a hard-nosed disciplinarian who believed in fundamen- tals,” Pete said. “I learned a lot from him.” Sound familiar?


Adkins earned his bachelor’s degree in education with a minor in           times one and a half,” Adkins said. “We just went to work ... these guys (players) were all farm boys and liked to work.” He also coached basketball and track, and, “They wanted me to


 was enough.”  


“We wanted to keep on winning; no team wanted to be the team that broke the 71-game winning streak. Every year we came into training camp, we stressed that and the players knew that, and we brainwashed them into believing it — they knew damn well they weren’t going to lose a ball game that season. To this day, I’ll look back on it and wonder, ‘How in the world did we do that?’ It was amazing.”


Adkins’ top assistant coach  through the early years and for every game during the winning streak. 


 which was a home game at Public School Stadium, no less? “What do you think? Hell yes, I was nervous,” Adkins said. “The


nerves were always there.”  to be his last. Ron Cole. He was the team’s defensive coordinator  after Pete retired.


“That was an easy choice,” Adkins said. Cole was the tip of a tal- ented assistant coaching iceberg that was intact most of Pete’s  Grosso and Kirk Obermiller. “We had a good group of guys,” Adkins said, “and they were a  We had a lot of great coaches and great players during those years.” 


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