January 26, 2009: Andy Dehnart of Reality
Blurred blogging fame posts a long late pre-game interview
with Coach. Highlights include:
"Benjamin attributes the decrease in media attention that
the show gets to the way the weak tend to prevail, and said
that 'seeing the decline of the articles that are written
about the show and—I shouldn’t be saying that,
but I think that’s partially because it’s become
predictable in its unpredictability. I want to get the four
strongest people to the final four because that’s who
deserves it.'" [sounds about right...]
January, 2009: CBS gets around to putting
up S18 content:
"Benjamin Wade is known by many names. As the head women's
soccer coach at the Southwest Baptist University in Missouri,
he is called 'Coach Wade,' but he also goes by 'Maestro'
due to role as an artistic director and conductor of a California
symphony orchestra. A skilled musician, Benjamin was traveling
the world playing the trumpet before most kids could even
spell 'trumpet.'
Wade sees coaching as another form of manipulation.
'You have to find out what everybody wants, what everybody
needs, what they think they want, what think they need and
then you have to be the person that solves everything.' He
knows these skills will be valuable in the game of Survivor.
If
Benjamin was asked to wear just one hat, it would be that
of 'Renaissance Man.' Aside from setting the
world record for the longest solo kayak expedition on the
ocean (an amazing 6,132 miles), Wade has also been attacked
by a tiger shark, stalked by a jaguar in the Amazon and has
been bitten by a piranha on his right hand. To say that he
is a Type A, Alpha male, who likes to control the environment
around him may just be an understatement. Coach's dominant
personality will be a force to be reckoned with in the game.
Benjamin
is single and currently splits his time in Bolivar, Mo, and
Susanville, Calif. His birth date is September 18."
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