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re: Favorite SEC football coach you have met
Posted by iglass on 7/7/26 at 1:46 am to TigerTiger12914
SEC Football coaches:
Gene Stallings - was an incredibly nice guy. Just as warm and as personable a person as you could ever meet. I met him at a charity event where I was the event photographer. A couple with an autistic child was introduced to him and Gene made that kid the center of his universe for a few minutes despite all the schedule pressure and other people around him.
Nick Saban - a lot more personable than you might think. Out of football season, that is. A lot of people who think he is a jerk don't realize that when he is in that mode, he is just all focused 100% on football with not much time for friendship building.
Pat Dye - congenial but something made my spine crawl about the guy. Yeah. I know, "Auburn!" but that's really not it at all, I have met other Auburn coaches I liked (see below). Something just set my spidey-sense off for some reason. I kept the conversation as short as I politely could.
Houston Nutt - exchanged a hello with him in Fayetteville one year- but not much beyond that. Seemed like a player's coach just listening to him, though.
A bit off topic but sort of related:
Wimp Sanderson - nice enough but that was a long time ago.
Dale Brown - Also a long time ago but I just remember that he was cutting up with Joe Dean courtside during warmups at the time and it was non-stop fun and laughter. Super friendly to me as was Joe Dean. I think Joe was tickled when I told him I loved the old TVS broadcasts of SEC basketball.
Joe B. Hall - was cussing like a sailor on the elevator ride I shared with him one year at the SEC tournament.
Sonny Smith - very friendly to a young kid (me) who had no shot whatsoever at playing basketball. I really liked the guy.
Mark Gottfried - meh. Didn't seem to have much personality to me. I actually met his ex-wife several times before they married, she was a tutor to some guys in the dorm I lived in. She was a smokeshow back then and his model daughter took after her mom, thankfully.
Final off-topic:
Had a 30 minute conversation with Bart Starr once. Much like Gene Stallings, just a kind and wonderful man. Could not have been any nicer to me and shared his time, all in a circumstance where the crowd we were in was getting highly frustrated. One of my prouder "coaching photos" I have ever had taken. The planet is a worse place for his leaving us.
Gene Stallings - was an incredibly nice guy. Just as warm and as personable a person as you could ever meet. I met him at a charity event where I was the event photographer. A couple with an autistic child was introduced to him and Gene made that kid the center of his universe for a few minutes despite all the schedule pressure and other people around him.
Nick Saban - a lot more personable than you might think. Out of football season, that is. A lot of people who think he is a jerk don't realize that when he is in that mode, he is just all focused 100% on football with not much time for friendship building.
Pat Dye - congenial but something made my spine crawl about the guy. Yeah. I know, "Auburn!" but that's really not it at all, I have met other Auburn coaches I liked (see below). Something just set my spidey-sense off for some reason. I kept the conversation as short as I politely could.
Houston Nutt - exchanged a hello with him in Fayetteville one year- but not much beyond that. Seemed like a player's coach just listening to him, though.
A bit off topic but sort of related:
Wimp Sanderson - nice enough but that was a long time ago.
Dale Brown - Also a long time ago but I just remember that he was cutting up with Joe Dean courtside during warmups at the time and it was non-stop fun and laughter. Super friendly to me as was Joe Dean. I think Joe was tickled when I told him I loved the old TVS broadcasts of SEC basketball.
Joe B. Hall - was cussing like a sailor on the elevator ride I shared with him one year at the SEC tournament.
Sonny Smith - very friendly to a young kid (me) who had no shot whatsoever at playing basketball. I really liked the guy.
Mark Gottfried - meh. Didn't seem to have much personality to me. I actually met his ex-wife several times before they married, she was a tutor to some guys in the dorm I lived in. She was a smokeshow back then and his model daughter took after her mom, thankfully.
Final off-topic:
Had a 30 minute conversation with Bart Starr once. Much like Gene Stallings, just a kind and wonderful man. Could not have been any nicer to me and shared his time, all in a circumstance where the crowd we were in was getting highly frustrated. One of my prouder "coaching photos" I have ever had taken. The planet is a worse place for his leaving us.
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re: 2010 Bama vs 2007 Florida.. Who wins?
Posted by iglass on 7/5/26 at 4:07 pm to LSU Patrick
I just ran the Monte Carlo simulation 10 times at WhatIfSports. Bama won 7 out of 10 games. All with the same conditions. Only three or four were even close.
Note that you can set home/away teams, weather, style of play, etc and the results can come out dramatically different. It is interesting to run a few scenarios. Your runs may turn out totally different than mine.
Note that you can set home/away teams, weather, style of play, etc and the results can come out dramatically different. It is interesting to run a few scenarios. Your runs may turn out totally different than mine.
re: 2010 Bama vs 2007 Florida.. Who wins?
Posted by iglass on 7/5/26 at 3:52 pm to cajuntiger1010
That's easy enough to do over at WhatIfSports. Neutral field, warm conditions:
re: Chips are down: Is there a fired coach you once hated but look back more fondly now?
Posted by iglass on 7/3/26 at 9:45 am to LSU713Tiger
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LSU713Tiger
LOL, no... but they COULD'VE been. You can just HEAR him saying that stuff in your head, amirite? :lol:
re: July 2, 1977: Oakland, CA: Free Bird
Posted by iglass on 7/2/26 at 8:11 pm to Darth_Vader
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IMO, this was the single greatest live musical performance in the history of mankind. Keep in mind what you hear in that video comes from nothing more than musical instruments, microphones, amplifiers, and pure God-given musical talent.
It's an absolute shame that Collins is never mentioned among the great guitarists... despite being able to see this video. I also like the fact that his guitar used in that video is one of only a handful ever made in the combination of that style and wood. That particular guitar should be worth millions today.
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Arksulli
I didn't hate him but I miss Coach O blundering along the sidelines. And I don't say that as an insult. We need more coaches that look like they'd kill and eat the opposing HC during the post game handshake.
If you have never read "Letters from Coach O" circa 2006 or so, boy are you in for a treat. Just read them with someone nearby who can arrange for medical help for cracked ribs from laughing so hard.
Letters from Coach O - vol 1-7
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"I was still starvin', though, so I put on some gym shorts (per the terms of my contract with Ole Miss, I had to) and a pair of flip-flops and headed downtown to Smitty's. Went through the hole in the fence around the yard. Every damn fence I build has a hole in it. Anyway, went to Smitty's, kicked the door open and yelled "any damn Starkvillers in here can just head on back to Brokeback Mountain right now." Everybody in the place said "Hotty Toddy, O!" so I sat on down, ordered a dozen scrambled and a bottle of green tabasco sauce and head-butted the guy in the next booth.
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“So we headed back to Oxford. But we’re going to keep recruiting Tebeaux, even if he is leading us on. Believe me, if a boy is possessed by Satan himself, Auburn has some built-in advantages. But at Ole Miss, we ARE NOT QUITTERS! Sometimes, recruiting is easy. You go in, drink a beer with Daddy, eat some of Mama’s fried chicken, then you beat the hell out of the boy until he commits. You’d hope they were all that simple, but they ain’t. “But a boy who can levitate four feet in the air and spew green vomit, I can use that boy down on the goal-line. That boy is BY-GOD OLE MISS MATERIAL!! So I'm going to keep on workin'..."
re: What's the worst state out of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama?
Posted by iglass on 7/1/26 at 11:46 pm to Deadmanshand
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Louisiana wins on economy. It has double the GDP of Mississippi, equal to Alabama, while it has a higher per capital GDP than Bama. Bama has beaches and some nice Appalachian foothills areas, but little else. New Orleans is amazing to visit, but terrible as a place to live. All three are brought down by their northern regions.
You're smoking crack if you think that North Alabama is dragging down the state as a whole. Just sayin'.
re: 250th Celebration Thus Far...Opinions?
Posted by iglass on 6/26/26 at 2:46 am to PurpleandGold Motown
It is not even July 4th yet.
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Lacey Chabert
Mississippi girl if I am not mistaken.
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McGregor
Ala-LSU in Baton Rouge. 14-14? Shula was our QB. Humphrey got hurt early in the game. LSU missed a short FG late and then Perkins sat on the ball and ran out the clock. I was young. All I remember
I was there. NOBODY left that game happy.
I seem to remember that halftime was a bit long because they filmed some footage for a movie.
re: 82 years ago today, 8 American sailors jumped onto a sinking nazi sub
Posted by iglass on 6/8/26 at 3:30 am to real turf fan
If you are unable to find one, drop me a line.
re: 82 years ago today, 8 American sailors jumped onto a sinking nazi sub
Posted by iglass on 6/5/26 at 10:01 pm to hawgfaninc
Yes, this is an awesome story. Admiral Gallery gave the order for "Boarders away!" for the first time since the War of 1812.
Gallery was one of four brothers who joined the Navy - three of them rose to the rank of Admiral and the fourth was a chaplain. I have actually visited Admiral Gallery's grave (from this story, alongside his brothers) in Arlington Cemetery.
Gallery was an author after his time in the Navy, with both some factual and especially some fictional accounts based n some of the old Navy stories. They are incredibly interesting and sidesplitting funny. If you every see one in paperback, GRAB IT. Some editions even in mass market paperback are worth hundreds of dollars. I have several beaten up copies and also a few of them in eBooks (epub) format. You can find some of them here:
Author Daniel V Gallery at Amazon
I highly recommend adding them to your reading list if you are remotely interested the military history.
Gallery was one of four brothers who joined the Navy - three of them rose to the rank of Admiral and the fourth was a chaplain. I have actually visited Admiral Gallery's grave (from this story, alongside his brothers) in Arlington Cemetery.
Gallery was an author after his time in the Navy, with both some factual and especially some fictional accounts based n some of the old Navy stories. They are incredibly interesting and sidesplitting funny. If you every see one in paperback, GRAB IT. Some editions even in mass market paperback are worth hundreds of dollars. I have several beaten up copies and also a few of them in eBooks (epub) format. You can find some of them here:
Author Daniel V Gallery at Amazon
I highly recommend adding them to your reading list if you are remotely interested the military history.
Barbara Bain was highly underrated IMHO.
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In and out in 5 minutes buying paper towels, batteries...
Keep it up, pal!
(I own some Dollar General stock, it has been very good for me.)
re: Have you watched the Pigeon Forge flex guy?? What would you do?? NSFW LANGUAGE
Posted by iglass on 5/30/26 at 12:21 am to NawlinsTiger9
He seemed to have a "Peyton Manning neck."
re: "Babes from days gone by (NSFW)" thread as per request by Kafka..
Posted by iglass on 5/25/26 at 6:51 pm to tigerinexile
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I was devastated when I found out about Randolph Scott
re: Jackson Pollock painting sells for $181 million at auction
Posted by iglass on 5/25/26 at 3:06 am to evil cockroach
"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece."
- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
re: In honor of SBC coming back to LSU…Top 10 SEC nicknames?
Posted by iglass on 5/22/26 at 9:02 am to Crimson Wraith
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Rory Turner had a unique one.
"I pray he come my way... I wax dat dude."
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It doesn't exist, because girls don't fart.
Mebbee so... they just POOT instead.***
re: What was the wildest thing you witnessed at a wedding?
Posted by iglass on 5/19/26 at 12:36 am to wookalar1013
Was at a wedding once where the bride/groom had to kneel down and pray. When they did, someone had used whiteout on the bottom of the groom's heels - they said... HELP ME!
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