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TMagic

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  1. Kansas has had about 4 good seasons since 1968. They're bad historically bad this year, but you gotta give a head coach 4 years to see if he can turn it around. If they're still bad after 4 years, then they have to make a change, but acting before that would just show a lack of patience.

     

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  2. Dear Coach Pelini,

    I've never written you before, so please forgive this meandering opening. (And I'll forgive you for opening with confectionary Chattanooga.) I'm figuring some things out over here, or not figuring them out. You see, I'm not sure why, as a kid, I started rooting for Nebraska. I grew up in Florida, in a spot 1,500 miles better than Lincoln, a spot with a gulf full of grouper and oysters rather than a stagnant pond sheening with pesticide runoff. There were fragrant oranges hanging low for the picking. Ropa vieja and fried plantains. We had palm trees. Pigmentation. The Seminoles and the Hurricanes and the Gators. So what grabbed me, as a youngster, about Nebraska? I don't know, Coach. That simple, honest red? Not scarlet. Not garnet. Not crimson. Not burnt anything. These guys were in an unimaginable (to me, who bought my first coat when I went to grad school in St. Louis) blizzard-whipped cornfield that you had to drive three days to escape — scant scenery, no famous music of the region, no amusing accents — and somehow they could get it together to whip anybody at football. Had to admire it. The lack of glamour. That offense so stubborn and repetitive it was almost elegant, and exasperating in its success.

     

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    http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6941056/dear-coach-pelini

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