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There’s a lot of thought
under the hat

THE sun is shining and the wind is whipping and the rain is drying and his shades are sparkling. And Jerry Glanville is saying, "Too many people forget that football's got to be fun. It's not brain surgery."

It isn't?

The "interview" is over. Hawaii's new defensive coordinator is officially on the job.

And away we go. All aboard the Glanville Express:

» On the latest stop on his adventurous career path: "The good lord watches over me. I had already told my wife and son that we were going elsewhere. They were in what I call 'O.W.,' which is Open Weeping. And the phone rang."

» On his type of lineman: "I was looking for some large bodies. We've got one group we call 'Jumbo.' I want one group that you have to be 300 pounds to be on it, and nobody ever asks you to go on a diet. The three (defensive) linemen, I said, 'You can go to 400 if you want.' "

» On being the rare defensive coach who not only tolerates the run-and-shoot, but prefers it: "I was always a year ahead of June. Like all defensive coaches I'd pound the ball in there, run the ball in there. And I would learn that didn't always lead to points. And then June would come that second year and we'd become a team with points."

» On being honored by his old high school at "Jerry Glanville Day": "Actually, that was a shock. They retired my jersey at the state high school all-star game. And I thought about it, anybody who goes in the hall of fame or they retire their jersey, that's like four to five years after they played. They did mine 40 years after I played."

» On Elvis: "He had nine TVs in his bedroom. Watched a lot of TV."

» On the evolution of his and June Jones' "look": "You want to know how this really started? We were playing a game, and it was preseason. And how many (players) did we used to have, June, a hundred? Whatever the number was, a defensive end and I was on the sideline signaling. And he said, 'Coach, I want you to go over here and look back. Look at that maze of people. How can we find you ...?' And it was amazing. I couldn't have found June if I had to. So I said, well, I'll wear one color they can find. But then we got to loving it so much we put them in the same color. So that went ..."

"What happened was, we changed teams," June Jones said.

"We changed teams and we all ended up with black shirts!" Glanville said.

» On which one of them, he or Jones, influenced the other's sense of style: "(Jones has) taught me a lot of things on wardrobe as you can tell. He was picked top-six dresser in his office!"

» On having already unknowingly had a distant tie to UH's defensive tradition: "Coach says, 'Coach, that's one of the Kafentzis brothers.' I said, you're kidding. I coached his dad. I coached his uncle. I hope the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. And it just made me feel ... I'm coaching Kafentzis' kid. And Kafentzis was as tough and hard-nosed kid as we got -- and now I get to coach his kid."

» On the cowboy hat: "Coaching in Texas sun we all got skin cancer. ... My surgeon gave me the hat. He said, 'Wear this hat or get a new doctor.' ... Surprisingly it's been rained on every day. If I knew that I would have brought a shower cap."

» On his complicated scheme: "I once had Marty Schottenheimer call up, he goes, 'I don't know how you coach this.' He said, 'We just charted you. You ran 23 different secondaries.' And I looked at it. We've only got four."

» On his plan to keep his scheme from getting too complicated: "If you're having a mental error as a player, if you've got a little bit confused, they walk by me and they say one word, they say 'Rainbow.' If they say 'Rainbow' to me and we're playing a game, I promise you we've got a call, all confusion is off."

» On when you know a defense is ready: "By the time we play, if all the coaches dropped dead, every player will know what to do against what."

» On being a renaissance man: "Whatever state I go in ... I go to Alabama, not one person in Alabama knows Jerry Glanville ever coached one day of football. They know he races Talladega. They know he races at Montgomery. They know he races at Birmingham. It depends what state I'm in. I go to Milwaukee and everybody knows I'm a football coach."

» On working at an institution of higher learning: "The last time he was on a school campus was 50 years ago," Jones said.

"I was trying to get my transcript changed!" Glanville said.