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The sunglasses, the white pants, the cowboy hat, the mustache, the folksy rhetoric?

All Hayden Fry. And all part of the genius behind a s resurgence that became the heyday of Iowa Hawkeyes football.

But behind that persona that represented radical change in Iowa City, perhaps the most important thing Fry brought from Texas in December of was his Master’s degree in psychology from Baylor.

Fry wound up being uniquely qualified to help the Hawkeyes ditch nearly two decades of losing football and believe that they could not only be good … but great.

Fry wasn’t slow-witted, although that's what he wanted his coaching counterparts to think.

Behind the aviator glasses was a leader, a motivator, an innovator and a master psychologist.

“This was little old Iowa,” former Iowa quarterback Chuck Long said Tuesday night, not long after the news broke that Fry had died after a long battl Autobiography meaning and example.