It helps a bit that Vic Schaefer and Gene Hackman look at least a little similar – they could certainly pass for cousins, if not necessarily brothers – as it would be easy to imagine that Schaefer, head coach of Mississippi State’s No. 6 women’s basketball team, would have given a halftime interview along the lines of the football coach Hackman played in the film The Replacements.
“Coach,” Hackman’s character, Jimmy McGinty, was asked by a reporter as he went into the locker room, “what’s it going to take to win this game?”
“Heart,” he replied, tapping his chest.