Carl Maddox, Former Coaching Staff & Athletic Director, on Coach Dietzel's (pictured) discipline

Paul Dietzel: LSU Photograph Collection, RG #A5000,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.

Scott Purdy: Who made the decisions on discipline? For instance, if one of your players, that you coached personally, one of your position players were to get out of line, who would reprimand the player?

Carl Maddox: Well, of course there would be some dialogue with the position coach and the player, but the . . . Any discipline other than a chewing out would come from the head football coach. He usually assigned. . . to the position coach, to oversee whatever discipline he meted out. For instance, Coach [Paul] Dietzel had a policy of having the player get up early, say at five o’clock or five-thirty, before breakfast, and go out to the stadium and run the stadium. And the position coach would go with his position players and watch them run the stadium, whether it was pouring down rain or not.

-- Carl Maddox, interviewed by Scott Purdy, 1993