Bud Wilkinson coached one of America's greatest college football powerhouses.
He also pioneered coaches shows on TV, gave innumerable clinics, seminars, speeches and interviews, was the point man on John F. Kennedy's Presidential Council for Physical Fitness (and worked with four other presidents), was a respected analyst on network television and even ran for U.S. Senate.
And he still found time to write regular letters to his sons, Pat and Jay, as they went to college and transitioned to adulthood.
Jay Wilkinson has authored a new book about his dad that casts the legendary coach in a different light. It's an intimate look inside the mind and heart and soul of one of America's sports icons.
"It was written at a time when I was playing football at Duke and dad was coaching his last four years of football at OU, but it's really not a football book," Jay Wilkinson said. "It's much more about the dialogue between a father and a son and a father's love and compassion to his son that was homesick and lonesome and needing guidance and trust."
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