Is Pete a History Nerd?

[YellowSnow]

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post...he-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]

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]

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]

sic semper tyrannis

I see what you did there

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Jack H. Lockner?

That made me laugh

 

[YellowSnow]

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]

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.

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...