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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