BD Sullivan wrote:After the 1961 season actually. That put him in position to be re-hired by Paul Brown, who shunned after he took the Browns HC position--even though Brown told hi to take it.Saban wrote:Chuck Knox was on Blanton Collier's coaching staff at the University of Kentucky along with Don Shula, Howard Schnellenberger, and Ermal Allen. Blanton and his staff were fired after the 1962 season, and I think that Collier was even hung in effigy.
Not sure that story is true..PB denied that he told Collier to take the job, and Modell, being in advertising before owning the Browns, might have invented the story.
Brown said that he used to talk to Collier before the Cleveland-Cincinnati games in 1970. Collier retired after that year.