Daniel was Pat Dye's OL coach for his entire tenure at Auburn. Dye hired him out of Bill Bacon's staff in Enterprise (coincidentally, the high school stadium will be officially named Bill Bacon Field this Friday).
From a friend of mine who spoke to Coach Daniel recently. "Thad" in the conversation is the late Thad Morgan, who was the Enterprise superintendent of schools for several decades:
He told me a funny story about Thad. When Pat Dye came to enterprise to interview coach Daniel for an assistant job, Dye asked what it would take financially to get him to Auburn. Dye gave Thad a figure and Thad told Dye, “Shit coach, we pay him that much to coach here. Why would he move to Auburn for that”? He joked before there were agents, Thad Morgan was his first agent and responsible for him getting a decent pay bump when hired at Auburn. 😂
Coach Daniel retired from the Steelers 2 years ago and now lives next to Coach Whitt in Auburn. They have farm land that runs adjacent to one another.
From a friend of mine who spoke to Coach Daniel recently. "Thad" in the conversation is the late Thad Morgan, who was the Enterprise superintendent of schools for several decades:
He told me a funny story about Thad. When Pat Dye came to enterprise to interview coach Daniel for an assistant job, Dye asked what it would take financially to get him to Auburn. Dye gave Thad a figure and Thad told Dye, “Shit coach, we pay him that much to coach here. Why would he move to Auburn for that”? He joked before there were agents, Thad Morgan was his first agent and responsible for him getting a decent pay bump when hired at Auburn. 😂
Coach Daniel retired from the Steelers 2 years ago and now lives next to Coach Whitt in Auburn. They have farm land that runs adjacent to one another.
