The Denver Post has a story headlined, Breaking down CU Buffs’ nationally ranked transfer class: Coach Prime’s bringing blue chips to Boulder; In Deion Sanders’ first season in Boulder, Coach Prime is bringing his luggage, and it’s Louis, as promised. How does the newspaper view the Dartmouth grad transfer heading that way? Here's what the story says (LINK):
SHANE COKES
Position: Defensive line
Former School: Dartmouth
Height/Weight: 6-3, 275
Class: Junior
Scouting Report: Cokes spent 2019 on the scout team at Dartmouth and then saw the 2020 Ivy League season canceled. But he made the last couple of seasons count, emerging as a force in 20 starts with 87 total tackles, 14 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks.
Roster Projection: Starter on the defensive line.
Green Alert Take: Interesting that the Post (and Colorado) refer to Cokes, who will already have his Dartmouth degree, as a junior.
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The Next Big Idea has a piece headlined Malcolm Gladwell and William Cohan on What Really Happened to GE that includes this regarding CEO Jack Welch picking Jeff Immelt '78 as his successor (LINK):
Malcolm: And there was this public fascination with who was going to get to be the anointed successor to the king. He chooses Jeff Immelt. Describe Jeff Immelt.
Bill: CEO central casting. From the Midwest. Went to Dartmouth and played football, and then Harvard Business School.
Cohan goes on to say:
Well, you can’t help but like Immelt. But, I mean, I didn’t like him as much as I liked Jack. Jack was more gemütlich. I think part of it is that people’s mythology precedes them, even for journalists. Jack had taken the company from $12 billion to $650 billion. He was the CEO of the century. That Jack Welch mythology was massive. By the time I saw Jeff, it was quite the opposite. He had been fired. The company had lost a lot of value. And many people thought he was chiefly responsible.
South Dakota State coach John Stiegelmeier is going out on top of FCS college football, announcing his retirement on Thursday less than two weeks after the Jackrabbits squad won their first national championship.Stiegelmeier, who will turn 66 on Feb. 7, had coached at his alma mater since 1988, posting a 199-112 (.640) record with winning records in 22 of his 26 seasons as head coach from 1997-2022. He received the 2022 Eddie Robinson Award as the FCS coach of the year.
EXTRA POINT
When we lived on Moose Mountain our plow guy got paid each time he visited our driveway. Sometimes when we got a couple of feet or so it would mean two or even three visits, which got a little annoying. (An aside, funny how snowfalls in the weeks leading up to Christmas needed more return visits.)
Here in Vermont we pay a flat fee for plowing. If we have a bunch of storms it works out for us. If there's very little snow, the plow guy wins. We got a stinkin' four inches last night and even our old plow guy would have turned his nose up at that but lo and behold, our new plow guy was out there this morning.
With just one other visit in the books I'm thinking he felt like he had to earn the money we paid him before the season.
