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Forget about Joe Bernal's high-priced swimming bonus babies, who reside in plush suites on the top floor of Eliot House. Don't even consider Joe Restic's masters of the Multiflex...
...mixed results he has seen, Restic maintains an almost eerie confidence in the Multiflex. He says definitively, "When it doesn't work, I say to you we have negated it--it's not because we don't have a tremendous advantage." He sprinkles the phrase "tremendous advantage" liberally through his description of the offense. The confidence is so absolute that it seems natural to ask whether he has ever wondered how the Multiflex might work with the best players in the country. He replies quickly, eagerly: "Unbelievable. No doubt in my mind." So does he want to go big time...
...despite Restic's innovations and their considerable concomitant publicity, the word Multiflex became truly well-known in the spring of 1979, when a certain Kirkland House independent study seminar debuted. Called "Fundamentals of the Multiflex," and taught by Larry Brown '79, then a senior and still Harvard's all-time passing leader, the course became something of a symbol of the less-than-substantial intellectual rigor associated with independent work courses. (The rules were tightened shortly after the course was reported in the national press, but Dean Rosovsky still manages to throw a mispronounced dig at the course...
...word of the Multiflex spread, and as Brown, disciple of the word according to Restic, says, "What coach has been doing for ten years, they've only been going in the NFL for about two or three years. Teams like the Cowboys don't use the Multiflex, but they use the same principals he's used." Indeed the Multiflex may not seem as radical as it once did, not because Restic has grown conservative in his 54th year, but because other teams, both college and pro, have started to see some of the same things. Still a long way from...
...could receive would be an Ivy championship, and his chances this year seem as good as they have been since 1976. Even if the Crimson doesn't come up with the title, the loss will not shake the coach's faith in his system. Joe Restic believes in the Multiflex with the intensity of a professor's committment to a pet theory. If others remain mystified by the relentless scamperings of 11 red jerseys on the turf of Harvard Stadium, Restic will try to explain once more--and maybe offer a little sympathy. After all, of Professor Brown's course...