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Is Pete a History Nerd?

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,271 Founders Club
edited October 2016 in Hardcore Husky Board
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.

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  • NEsnake12
    NEsnake12 Member Posts: 3,795

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

    Hustler, Playboy, etc.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,271 Founders Club

    sic semper tyrannis

    I see what you did there
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    I like my Confederates this year.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,271 Founders Club

    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.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    You can read the bible on the internet while looking at porn.
  • seatownfunk
    seatownfunk Member Posts: 807
    Jack H. Lockner?
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325

    Jack H. Lockner?

    That made me laugh
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,271 Founders Club

    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.

    image

    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.
  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,161
    Anyone notice Dennis' list has no number 2? Did he crash on Highway 2 and leave it out to avoid triggering himself?
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

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

    Nice catch. Why does Dennis hate offensive linemen that average 332 pounds and are ready to rumble anyway? WHY DOES DDY HATE OSSAI????
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

    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.

    Well, I don't know about you but I’m a little tired of hearing ‘it’s all about us’ from the UW coaches. I get it, I understand it - but it really doesn’t tell me much more than I already know. And it certainly doesn't make for interesting fan fodder.
  • doogville
    doogville Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,229 Swaye's Wigwam
    It's a real treat to have AANDY posting here.