This raises an interesting question: Are Gil’s parents still alive? It would make a good story if Dad Thorp showed up and interfered with Gil’s coaching. Longtime readers might know if it was established decades ago that Gil’s parents were deceased.
I don’t think they are dead. I’ve been reading since ’66 and vaguely recall he may have visitied them one summer or so. Often, the summer plot lines would have Gil flying off somewhere and crashing once,too. He could still fly off, looking for his kids. ;)
A common theme today, taking care of your parents. There is an alternative out there called Long Term Care insurance to lessen the burden on loved ones.
It’s not that far down the road from Columbus to Milford. Jim Tressel will be Gil’s new Offensive Coordinator, and a young-looking Maurice Clarret wiill sneak back into high school as the hard-running new halfback. State Title, here we come, until a gun falls from the running back’s hip pads on a 60-yard touchdown run.
Good stuff on Clambake: “Now just keep your eye on that one hole.” I could see how that could be applied to football as well as baseball.
Maybe Wally Lamb will give up his lucrative medical practice to return as coach. Or else his wife Bitsy Twill could coach because of all she’s learned from Wally.
bfwndtd over 13 years ago
oh PLEASE bring back Clambake!
Cliff1911 over 13 years ago
He’s leaving to recruit for the University of Miami.
chiphilton over 13 years ago
This raises an interesting question: Are Gil’s parents still alive? It would make a good story if Dad Thorp showed up and interfered with Gil’s coaching. Longtime readers might know if it was established decades ago that Gil’s parents were deceased.
dutchpuppy2 over 13 years ago
grshprnh over 13 years ago
Marks’ parents must be really old.
doublepaw over 13 years ago
Get ready for a real problem with the replacement coach, he may want to use a 20th Century offense instead of the Colonial system Gil still uses.
flanders22 over 13 years ago
To bad Sid Gillman isn’t alive. He’d have a passing offense that would break all records. Great coach.
bearwku82 over 13 years ago
A common theme today, taking care of your parents. There is an alternative out there called Long Term Care insurance to lessen the burden on loved ones.
dadscool over 13 years ago
Can Molly coach football?
Bluedarter over 13 years ago
It’s not that far down the road from Columbus to Milford. Jim Tressel will be Gil’s new Offensive Coordinator, and a young-looking Maurice Clarret wiill sneak back into high school as the hard-running new halfback. State Title, here we come, until a gun falls from the running back’s hip pads on a 60-yard touchdown run.
Kazbot over 13 years ago
No… not Tabor. What will the team do without him, since he is so rarely in the story?
thejudge over 13 years ago
Why can’t Coach Tabor have a “Mark” coffee mug?
JerryPulver over 13 years ago
I vote for Clambake too, but I sense an ex-Mudlark footballer coming into the picture.
ohiobobcat over 13 years ago
Good stuff on Clambake: “Now just keep your eye on that one hole.” I could see how that could be applied to football as well as baseball.
Maybe Wally Lamb will give up his lucrative medical practice to return as coach. Or else his wife Bitsy Twill could coach because of all she’s learned from Wally.
Mopman over 13 years ago
Gil’s parents call. “So Gil, we’ve had the kids staying here for 3 years now, isn’t it time for you to pick them up?”
Cliff1911 over 13 years ago
Pop Thorp’s 100th birthday next week. Gil’s going to text him as soon as he learns what a text is.