Influences

Young Pete Birmingham replaced Petroff as head coach for the 1977 season. For the first time in Murphy’s career he was given some responsibility. Birmingham told Pat that he needed him to be a leader on the team. And lead he did. That season the team had great success. The 1976 – 77 season was one of the most successful athletically in school history. CBA teams won 7 out of the ten championships that year and baseball was one of them. 

Mom and Dad shaped who I am today...

"Ty Murphy taught his boys that one of the worst things a man could do was lie. Suspicious a son was lying, he gathered the young man's belongings, threw them on the lawn and didn't let him come home for four months. Quick to criticize, slow to love. That, some say, is what planted a chip the size of Camelback Mountain on Pat Murphy's shoulder. But he was not like his father."