Is Pete a History Nerd?

YellowSnow

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/105332/why-washington-for-chris-petersen-the-huskies-are-a-challenge-worth-fighting-for

Fellow history nerds of the bored - if there are any - did anyone notice this today in Ted Miller's piece today on the Pac 12 Blog: "Petersen subscribes to the Harvard Business Review -- "Ideas and advice for leaders" -- and he said he's a big fan of Jim Collins' "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't." A favorite non-fiction work is Doris Kearns Goodwin's nearly 1,000-page tome "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."

I've been high on Pete for a while, but this gave me one more thing to doog about- i.e., a coach that can enjoy a dense 1000 page piece of non-fiction, albeit an endlessly fascinating one, like Doris Kearns Goodwin's study of Lincoln. For the sake of comparison, does anyone here know what sort of taste in books Sark had?

I also love seeing Pete absorb the historical lessons of Lincoln. Remember Honest Abe wasn't about instant gratification; he had a couple of tough seasons in '62 and early '63 and many wanted him fired. But once he had his own guys in there - i.e., winners like Grant and Sherman - he was plungering the SEC (I mean CSA) big time.

Hippopeteamus

sic semper tyrannis

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/105332/why-washington-for-chris-petersen-the-huskies-are-a-challenge-worth-fighting-for

Fellow history nerds of the bored - if there are any - did anyone notice this today in Ted Miller's piece today on the Pac 12 Blog: "Petersen subscribes to the Harvard Business Review -- "Ideas and advice for leaders" -- and he said he's a big fan of Jim Collins' "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't." A favorite non-fiction work is Doris Kearns Goodwin's nearly 1,000-page tome "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."

I've been high on Pete for a while, but this gave me one more thing to doog about- i.e., a coach that can enjoy a dense 1000 page piece of non-fiction, albeit an endlessly fascinating one, like Doris Kearns Goodwin's study of Lincoln. For the sake of comparison, does anyone here know what sort of taste in books Sark had?

I also love seeing Pete absorb the historical lessons of Lincoln. Remember Honest Abe wasn't about instant gratification; he had a couple of tough seasons in '62 and early '63 and many wanted him fired. But once he had his own guys in there - i.e., winners like Grant and Sherman - he was plungering the SEC (I mean CSA) big time.

I'd guess Sark's bookshelf would include these books plus a few others.











And finally, I'm sure he Google searched this term: "how to bang sluts for dummies". As a warning, don't search that on Google images at work. Just don't.

NEsnake12

YellowSnow said:

For the sake of comparison, does anyone here know what sort of taste in books Sark had?

Hustler, Playboy, etc.

RoadDawg55

I'm as happy as anyone Pete is killing it this year, but I hope this board doesn't turn into a drool fest. "Pete like history!" Yes!

YellowSnow

Hippopeteamus said:

sic semper tyrannis

I see what you did there

GrundleStiltzkin

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/105332/why-washington-for-chris-petersen-the-huskies-are-a-challenge-worth-fighting-for

Fellow history nerds of the bored - if there are any - did anyone notice this today in Ted Miller's piece today on the Pac 12 Blog: "Petersen subscribes to the Harvard Business Review -- "Ideas and advice for leaders" -- and he said he's a big fan of Jim Collins' "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't." A favorite non-fiction work is Doris Kearns Goodwin's nearly 1,000-page tome "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."

I've been high on Pete for a while, but this gave me one more thing to doog about- i.e., a coach that can enjoy a dense 1000 page piece of non-fiction, albeit an endlessly fascinating one, like Doris Kearns Goodwin's study of Lincoln. For the sake of comparison, does anyone here know what sort of taste in books Sark had?

I also love seeing Pete absorb the historical lessons of Lincoln. Remember Honest Abe wasn't about instant gratification; he had a couple of tough seasons in '62 and early '63 and many wanted him fired. But once he had his own guys in there - i.e., winners like Grant and Sherman - he was plungering the SEC (I mean CSA) big time.

I'd guess Sark's bookshelf would include these books plus a few others.











And finally, I'm sure he Google searched this term: "how to bang sluts for dummies". As a warning, don't search that on Google images at work. Just don't.

Missed one.

GrundleStiltzkin

YellowSnow said:

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/105332/why-washington-for-chris-petersen-the-huskies-are-a-challenge-worth-fighting-for

Fellow history nerds of the bored - if there are any - did anyone notice this today in Ted Miller's piece today on the Pac 12 Blog: "Petersen subscribes to the Harvard Business Review -- "Ideas and advice for leaders" -- and he said he's a big fan of Jim Collins' "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't." A favorite non-fiction work is Doris Kearns Goodwin's nearly 1,000-page tome "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."

I've been high on Pete for a while, but this gave me one more thing to doog about- i.e., a coach that can enjoy a dense 1000 page piece of non-fiction, albeit an endlessly fascinating one, like Doris Kearns Goodwin's study of Lincoln. For the sake of comparison, does anyone here know what sort of taste in books Sark had?

I also love seeing Pete absorb the historical lessons of Lincoln. Remember Honest Abe wasn't about instant gratification; he had a couple of tough seasons in '62 and early '63 and many wanted him fired. But once he had his own guys in there - i.e., winners like Grant and Sherman - he was plungering the SEC (I mean CSA) big time.

That whole article had me like,


Too bad we lose this week.

PurpleJ

I like my Confederates this year.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

GrundleStiltzkin said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/105332/why-washington-for-chris-petersen-the-huskies-are-a-challenge-worth-fighting-for

Fellow history nerds of the bored - if there are any - did anyone notice this today in Ted Miller's piece today on the Pac 12 Blog: "Petersen subscribes to the Harvard Business Review -- "Ideas and advice for leaders" -- and he said he's a big fan of Jim Collins' "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't." A favorite non-fiction work is Doris Kearns Goodwin's nearly 1,000-page tome "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."

I've been high on Pete for a while, but this gave me one more thing to doog about- i.e., a coach that can enjoy a dense 1000 page piece of non-fiction, albeit an endlessly fascinating one, like Doris Kearns Goodwin's study of Lincoln. For the sake of comparison, does anyone here know what sort of taste in books Sark had?

I also love seeing Pete absorb the historical lessons of Lincoln. Remember Honest Abe wasn't about instant gratification; he had a couple of tough seasons in '62 and early '63 and many wanted him fired. But once he had his own guys in there - i.e., winners like Grant and Sherman - he was plungering the SEC (I mean CSA) big time.

I'd guess Sark's bookshelf would include these books plus a few others.











And finally, I'm sure he Google searched this term: "how to bang sluts for dummies". As a warning, don't search that on Google images at work. Just don't.

Missed one.

Goddamn it! I thought there might've been another book by the warrior poet but that last Google search on how to bang sluts really distracted me.

YellowSnow

RoadDawg55 said:

I'm as happy as anyone Pete is killing it this year, but I hope this board doesn't turn into a drool fest. "Pete like history!" Yes!

@RoadDawg55 seems like this place will always keep its "cult of negativity" feel. At least I hope so.

Dennis_DeYoung

Don't worry @RoadDawg55 - I fucking hate books and I, for one, don't support Pete reading them. 1000 fucking non-fiction pages about something that is just historical conjecture?

Let me rip my fucking eyes out.

Read about recruiting some fucking offensive lineman in a book by Nick Saban you fucking twat!!!!

There are only a couple good books in the history of humanity:
1) The Internet
3) The Bible (well, that's mostly from memory and sometimes I get Jesus' sayings mixed up with things Hank Williams Jr. says)
4) Internet porn sites.
5) The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies and My Life with Styx. This is a fucking great book about the gay hero and Styx bassist Chuck Panozzo. He's been a sickly child, has AIDS and had fucking prostate cancer post-AIDS diagnosis and instead of dying or wasting away, he's fucking currently thriving and rich as shit, living in the West Hollywood hills like a fucking boss. You can't fucking kill this guy.



You read any more than that and you are fucking off your life trying to become an ivory tower fag.

PurpleJ

You can read the bible on the internet while looking at porn.

ThomasFremont

Who the fuck reads history books?

seatownfunk

Jack H. Lockner?

PostGameOrangeSlices

*noyd

ThomasFremont

seatownfunk said:

Jack H. Lockner?

That made me laugh

YellowSnow

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Don't worry @RoadDawg55 - I fucking hate books and I, for one, don't support Pete reading them. 1000 fucking non-fiction pages about something that is just historical conjecture?

Let me rip my fucking eyes out.

Read about recruiting some fucking offensive lineman in a book by Nick Saban you fucking twat!!!!

There are only a couple good books in the history of humanity:
1) The Internet
3) The Bible (well, that's mostly from memory and sometimes I get Jesus' sayings mixed up with things Hank Williams Jr. says)
4) Internet porn sites.
5) The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies and My Life with Styx. This is a fucking great book about the gay hero and Styx bassist Chuck Panozzo. He's been a sickly child, has AIDS and had fucking prostate cancer post-AIDS diagnosis and instead of dying or wasting away, he's fucking currently thriving and rich as shit, living in the West Hollywood hills like a fucking boss. You can't fucking kill this guy.



You read any more than that and you are fucking off your life trying to become an ivory tower fag.

Bullshit @Dennis_DeYoung . I bet many of the all time great coaches have been into "ivory tower fag" type reading. Woody Hayes, for example, was a well known history buff.

I'm not a Styx fan by any means but the use of it in conjunction with the Zombies in TSIO intro cracks me up.

Doog_de_Jour

YellowSnow said:

For the sake of comparison, does anyone here know what sort of taste in books Sark had?

YellowSnow said:

I also love seeing Pete absorb the historical lessons of Lincoln. Remember Honest Abe wasn't about instant gratification; he had a couple of tough seasons in '62 and early '63 and many wanted him fired. But once he had his own guys in there - i.e., winners like Grant and Sherman - he was plungering the SEC (I mean CSA) big time.

As a person who watches Ken Burns' "Civil War" series almost every year, thank you for this.

TMacDawg

"This is like a fistfight every day. It is everything you've got, every day."





As opposed to...

EsophagealFeces

Anyone notice Dennis' list has no number 2? Did he crash on Highway 2 and leave it out to avoid triggering himself?