Legendary cartoonist / “life coach” Charles Schulz, via Linus Van Pelt, reminded us “There is no heavier burden than a great potential.” Schulz should be the featured speaker each year at the I Wanna Be A Big Time Football Coach convention.
. First Day of School August 29, 2010: There are several things about being a kid that are so wonderful they are hard to give up when you grow up. …
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky…. a courageous young stallion (in a chrome helmet) galloped into history amid Kenan’s lofty pines.
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I’ve received a number of inquiries this week concerning the lack of the usual sophomoric / infantile / nitwit “bantering” that usually precedes “a big rivalry game”. I replied that I’m sure the respective toxic waste sites would be overflowing with their usual effluent.
At a dinner party recently, I engaged a UNC PhD candidate who noted, with noticeable surprise, that “NC State has a surprisingly good engineering program”. Duh! Really !! I did not further inquire as to his opinion on the future of mankind or his favorite Bond Girl. It did cause me to ruminate upon “what makes ‘a good school’” and “says who?”…..
Was it THE GREATEST FOOTBALL SATURDAY in Triangle History? Who keeps such records but it would be hard to imagine a better one. AND you coulda seen all three in-person. I opted for two….. And a Night of Fame attracts the Wolfpack famous. Yet another memorable event for William Neal Reynolds Coliseum.
One of my pet peeves is knee-jerks’ reaction that each problem in Life is unique requiring its own unique solution. Horse Pucky! There is nothing in Life that is unique when it involves human nature and group behavior. “We need to hold a bunch of meetings on this and devise our own unique solution….
Dear Holden: I want happiness and a good night’s sleep for the FamilyThorp. I warned you Dickie was a putz and Tami was a she-pariah but free advice is worth what it costs you, huh? As regards that bold announcement about AthleteAdmissions. Before the goggle-eyed crazies …
I’ve long used a poker game to illustrate an academic institution’s decision to “be competitive” at the BCS / Final Four level of Big Time College Sports. A seat at the BCS Poker table requires a hefty ante and a steely-eyed commitment to do what it takes…..
Have you ever sat on “The Dutiful Husband’s bench” while your wife shopped? Sure you have…. I did recently on Front Street in Beaufort….
Last week I traveled to Hickory to speak to the Hickory Rotary Club. What I learned was exactly what I told Holden Thorp four years ago…. and have reminded you guys on numerous occasions. Those good ol’ 8,000,000, 000 Chinese ain’t alone……
Holden Thorp, and his wife Patti, have been personal friends of mine for 5+ years thru thick and thin and lots of yucky sludge. I’ve never been “friends” with a for-real chancellor before. I have no frame of reference …..
I adopted Stanford as my favorite “not-an-alma-mater” team when I saw Toby Gerhart gallop over Notre Dame and Southern Cal. I loved Toby and Harbaugh The Younger and Andrew The Luck. Could Stanford be the One Team in America that doesn’t …..
Whatever can I write about today ?? I need something oozing with sex and abject stoopidity. Something a bit closer to home. Let’s google Great Unpleasantness This Week and see what pops up – Matt & WHO ????
To most of you it was just agate type in the Sunday college scoreboard; but it was more to some of us. I am a student of the socio-cultural aspects of American sports. The results of cards laid and cards played in BCS poker. If this were “strip poker”, Truman The Missouri Tiger….