Pat Dye was introduced to Auburn fans on Jan. 10, 1981, at the Auburn-Florida basketball game in Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum. We have an eight-second clip of it. The video is silent, but the place was loud. Dye got a standing ovation. He said that encouraged him.
Three years later, Auburn won the national championship.
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Here’s a great picture of his family taken a few months later.
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