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Cory Hall on targeting: 'I would probably have been ejected every game'

CORVALLIS - Oregon State interim coach Cory Hall has not been shy in acknowledging he once made his career utilizing a head-first tackling technique that has since been outlawed.

Joking that his playing style was similar to that of Adam Sandler's character Bobby Boucher in "The Waterboy," the former NFL safety acknowledged Monday just how much the game changed since his playing days ended in 2005.

"I would probably have been ejected every game (with today's rules)," Hall said. "Eventually I would have had to learn. ... I probably wouldn't have made it as far because that was my M.