Mike Bianchi:
By George, O'Leary is jet-skiing into UCF retirement
George O'Leary turned 70 years old earlier this week and for the first time in 48 years he was actually home to celebrate his birthday.
When his wife Sharon asked him what he wanted to do to commemorate the occasion, the former UCF football coach cracked in his own comically, curmudgeonly way: "Come up with a way to spend the next 48 years not being home on my birthday."
O'Leary laughs like a man who seems to be enjoying retirement after nearly a half-century of prowling the sidelines at every level from preps to pros. During those five decades, he never took any real time to commemorate birthdays or holidays. As another coaching lifer, Bear Bryant, once said: "I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Some guys go fishing, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose."
These days, though, O'Leary is doing all of those fun and relaxing things he never really had time to do before. He's splitting time between his beach house in Palm Coast and his lake house in Georgia. And you're not going believe it, but the old coach actually just bought some new jet skis.
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By George, O'Leary is jet-skiing into UCF retirement
George O'Leary turned 70 years old earlier this week and for the first time in 48 years he was actually home to celebrate his birthday.
When his wife Sharon asked him what he wanted to do to commemorate the occasion, the former UCF football coach cracked in his own comically, curmudgeonly way: "Come up with a way to spend the next 48 years not being home on my birthday."
O'Leary laughs like a man who seems to be enjoying retirement after nearly a half-century of prowling the sidelines at every level from preps to pros. During those five decades, he never took any real time to commemorate birthdays or holidays. As another coaching lifer, Bear Bryant, once said: "I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Some guys go fishing, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose."
These days, though, O'Leary is doing all of those fun and relaxing things he never really had time to do before. He's splitting time between his beach house in Palm Coast and his lake house in Georgia. And you're not going believe it, but the old coach actually just bought some new jet skis.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...oleary-mike-bianchi-0821-20160820-column.html
