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  1. Doesn't seem new, but unlimited transfers

    in Mean Green Football

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    Tim Pernetti's (new AAC Commissioner) remarks regarding exploring more corporate involvement seems interesting and innovative, sort of. Getting some heavy-hitter businesses on board with their big advertising/public-relations budgets. They get to splash their logos all over the AAC venues, ceremonies, uniforms, etc in exchange for some NIL type moola.

    I don't know, it all just feels weird and uncomfortable to this old fat guy.

     

  5. New AAC Commissioner

    in Mean Green Football

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    Just read the actual lines of the article. You don't even have to read between them...last two years at the high school level...quit his job at Rutgers because of a scandal...

    "I am fired up to work alongside our board, conference staff, athletics directors and coaches as we continue to transform the AAC into a bold collegiate conference enterprise that promotes world-class academic and athletic opportunities for our student-athletes through innovative resources, brand partnerships and emerging opportunities, blah blah blah..."

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  6. Yucca

    in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)

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    What good is a yucca?
    As I’m traveling throughout western Kansas, I see landowners pulling up or poisoning yuccas. Cows won’t eat them (unless it’s winter and they are adventurous and realize they are packed with protein). Yuccas can tear up unprotected shins or the tires of 4-wheelers (don’t ask me how I know). So why keep them?
    I asked this of a rancher once, who had an above average abundance of yuccas in his pasture. He said that his grandpa told him that during the dust bowl, the only grass that was available to the cattle was found in the shadow of a yucca. Knowing drought would come again, he tolerated them.
    This photo shows how important yuccas (and other shrubby plants like buttonbush) are to the prairie. After yesterday’s blizzard, snow piled up behind the yuccas. That little bit of moisture will be invaluable to the grasses and wildflowers downwind.
    Yuccas also have a myriad of other valuable qualities. They have a mutualistic relationship with a moth that pollinates the flowers in return for a place to raise its offspring. The growing flower stalks are edible (although I think they taste like soapy asparagus). They have a large taproot allowing them to flourish in dry environments.
     
    Audubon of Kansas
    Photo taken in Trego County, KS

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  7. Which college football coaches make your Mount Rushmore? Saban is easy … but who else?

    in Mean Green Football

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    "Talk about an impossible task. How could anyone whittle down a list from more than a century of greatness to only four people?   David Ubben and Ari Wasserman tried anyway."

    "There are multiple ways to answer a question this big. Who is the greatest? Who epitomizes the sport to you individually?"

    Part of the article:

    "Ari Wasserman’s list:

    "1. Nick Saban: I don’t care how funky you want to get with this list, Saban has to be on it. Outside of what Bill Belichick did with the New England Patriots — winning six Super Bowls in a league full of teams with relatively equal talent — there is no coach I admire more. I can list off the win totals and the national championships Saban won or the countless other mind-blowing stats. But Saban is bigger than that. He won during one of the most competitive eras of college football, and he did so by evolving and influencing the sport every step of the way. He’s the epitome of what college football coaching should represent. (Note: Bear Bryant didn’t make my list because I didn’t want two Alabama coaches, though he’s unquestionably worthy.)

    2. Pete Carroll

    3. Woody Hayes

    4. Dabo Swinney

     

    David Ubben's list:

    1. Nick Saban: He’s the single greatest coach in the history of college football. His sustained success at Alabama during the most competitive era of the sport shouldn’t be possible, and he captured national titles at two SEC schools, further validating his status as the all-time great. For all the coaches who preceded him and might have a higher win percentage, none of them did it in an era when it was as difficult as it was for Saban.

    2. Bill Snyder: The simplest case for Snyder is this: No other coach in college football history could have been planted in Manhattan, Kan., in 1988 and done what Snyder did. The Hayden Fry disciple made The Little Apple his†mi home. In two separate stints, he turned a program that appeared in one bowl game and never finished ranked prior to his arrival into a conference champion and perennial power, sustaining success at a place where even a single dream year seemed impossible. Go back and read the iconic Sports Illustrated story “Futility U,” penned before his first game. Excellence at K-State is somehow taken for granted, which is the greatest possible compliment to a coach who captured a pair of Big 12 titles and won 11 games in six of seven seasons at one point.

    3. Knute Rockne

    4. Eddie Robinson

    Honorable Mention, Most Entertaining:

    Steve Spurrier

    Barry Switzer

    Lee Corso

    Mike Leach: The Hal Mumme disciple is almost single handedly responsible for the proliferation of the spread offense in high school and college football. His offense was simple but effective and his coaching tree has all put their own spin on many of those principles as the Air Raid has evolved into something more balanced in many stops under coaches like Lincoln Riley, Sonny Dykes, Dana Holgorsen and Kliff Kingsbury. His penchant for well-considered thoughts on anything from dating advice to mascot brawls and the countless stories of his idiosyncrasies are legendary. And he somehow found time to write a book on Geronimo while being an active college football coach in addition to being an expert on pirates. It’s still crushing he left us too early in 2022 at age 61."



    Here's the full article unfortunately probably behind a paywall:

    https://theathletic.com/5376238/2024/03/29/best-college-football-coaches-mount-rushmore/?source=freeweeklyemail&campaign=602288&userId=11012542

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