Tim Green is ‘toughest kid I ever coached’
George O’Leary, then a 31 year old, first year coach at Liverpool High School, was trying to develop a stringent offseason weight training program to canada goose elrose parka uk start turning around the 1 9 football team he inherited.
It was 1977. An eighth grader named Tim Green came canada goose discount uk into the weight room one day to lift with the older kids on the team. O’Leary knew Green was going to develop into a future blue chip recruit the moment he laid eyes on him.
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“Timmy, like a madman, was just lifting like a berserko,” said Ron Osinski, the former assistant cheap canada goose mens and now retired English teacher at Liverpool who witnessed that interaction more than 40 years ago.
“That was the relationship for all those many years.”
O’Leary, now 73, was back in the Syracuse area this weekend flanking Green along with his family during Green’s canada goose outlet seattle No. 72 jersey cheap canada goose retirement ceremony at halftime https://www.chinese-sharpei.de of Saturday’s loss against Clemson.
Green lists O’Leary as his most influential coach, a man who took Green under his wing at 13 and instilled in him the values that have made Green a force in this town for decades.
O’Leary holds Green in equally high regard.
“He had talent right from the first time I met him, and I think the best thing about Tim is his competitive nature. He’s probably, in 48 years of coaching, is the toughest kid I ever canada goose freestyle vest uk coached.”
Green had a commitment to everything he touched, steered by a personal drive to feel worthy of his adopted parents and the biological family he later found.
Every accomplishment in his canada goose cheap canada goose black friday sale life felt like a merit badge.
He earned one of his firsts when O’Leary drove him home one night and told him he’d be the first freshman varsity football player in Liverpool High School history.
And, he earned yet another Saturday night, standing tall and strong watching the curtain drop to unveil his No. 72 college jersey hanging next to other Syracuse football legends.
“Everything he touched turned to gold,” O’Leary said. “It doesn’t surprise me. I wish he would have been put in 20 years ago.”
O’Leary watched the first half of Saturday’s 41 6 loss to Clemson with Green in suite No. 217 at the Carrier Dome. He spent the weekend staying with Green at his lake side canada goose expedition uk home in Skaneateles and joined Green, friends and family for a private toast with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell before the game.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell greets Tim Green at a private toast in Dineen Hall prior to Syracuse football game vs. Clemson on Sept. 14, 2019. Photo courtesy of Syracuse University athletics.
He sees the same competitor now, amid Green’s battle with ALS, as he did when he coached him for a time at Liverpool and then throughout his record setting, All American career at Syracuse University.
“He’s going to do canada goose black friday vancouver whatever he has to do to try and get everything that he can done,” O’Leary said, as Green was carefully helped into the seat of an SUV idling outside the Carrier Dome. “He’s with the best doctors in the country and canada goose outlet locations in toronto hopefully things work out.
“I’ve been with him a couple days and had a lot of good talks. He has a very sharp mind. That’s just an awful disease. It’s a shame, especially for someone like him who has been so talented.
“He’s one of the best I’ve ever been around.”
Moments earlier, O’Leary stood by Green as his acceptance speech was read to more than 50,000 fans who packed the building.
It must have felt like it did back when Canada Goose sale these two men were younger and stronger, back when canada goose outlet uk O’Leary was wringing every drop of potential out of the local kid whose breadth of life would go on to far goose outlet canada exceed a football field.
