After Monday's football practice, Gary Anglin told his Ventura College linebackers that lining up against cross-county rival Moorpark College was a fitting end to any season.
And any career.
Anglin, 57, has spent 34 of the past 39 years in the Pirates' football program as a player and coach. Saturday's 41st Citrus Cup game against Moorpark College will be his final football game in orange and black.
"It's a lot of years," said Anglin, who will rejoin the school's baseball program in the summer as an assistant to head coach Don Adams.
"I can't believe it... To me, it's the greatest."
As a freshman, the former star quarterback and running back played in the third Citrus Cup game, which was Moorpark's first win in the long series. As a sophomore, he missed the game with a broken neck.
And the matchup still leaves him numb.
Asked this week about the emotions entering his final Citrus Cup game, Anglin responded, "I don't have a lot of emotions, I just have a lot of memories."
"It would be nice to go out with a win, for our club and for me."
Including a five-year stint from 1989 to 1993 in which he only coached baseball, Anglin has coached on Telegraph Road for 32 years.
He feels he's leaving the football programs at the right time.
"Under Jon Mack," said Anglin, "the football program in is great condition and good hands."
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