Paging Starman. Governor Barney Rubble on line one...

That one's 300 yards right down the sprinkler line.

 

Sometimes you swing and don't even feel the ball hit the club face...

 

Are you playing an Albom today?

 

A Live Albom, perhaps?

 

I believe it's a Live Albom III.

 

Nice backstory, Starman.

Thank goodness the Stars ended up with Jim Mora. That worked out sorta OK.

 

Hopefully the state economy will be better than his 1994 team. Cause that's what GranMole has it looking like right now.

 

But you neglected to tell the best facts of all.

1. He was on the board who oversaw the hiring of the last coach- Mark Dantonio. WHY WOULD THEY LET HIM DO THAT? He got put on probation!

2. Because he is an MSU trustee. HE WAS ELECTED IN 2005!

You cannot make this stuff up folks.

 

Well, I figured that post had already gotten way more than long enough for anyone who doesn't really care about MSU (the vast majority of everyone in the world), so I decided to leave it at the conclusion of his coaching career.

To expand upon YOUR point,

1. When Perles was fired (in NCAA probation disgrace and on-field failure -- four straight losing seasons) it was decided to be a great idea to hire Nick Saban, because Saban would "carry on the tradition of the (Perles) program."

2. When Saban blew town for big money at LSU (the third time he had publicly threatened to bolt, despite a 25-22-1 record prior to his one legitimately succesful season), it was decided to be a great idea to elevate running backs coach Bobby Williams, who had served under both Saban and Perles, to "carry on the tradition of the program."

3. Williams went down in flames. John L. Smith was brought in, somebody who amazingly enough had no connections whatsoever with Perles or Saban. He was constantly backstabbed and sabotaged by members of the board of trustees, who continually informed high school coaches that he would not be long for the job, which utterly torpedoed recruiting.

4. Smith went down in flames (to be fair, largely his own doing). About this time, Perles decides to run for the board of trustees, encouraged by his patron saint, Joel Ferguson, who had been running interference for him on the board for nearly 20 years. Perles, riding the coattails of a landslide victory by the Democratic governor, Jennifer Granholm (more accurately, a landslide loss by the bungling silver-spoon billionaire Dick DeVos), gains election to the board.

5. While Perles is a trustee-in-waiting, the search for the head coach goes on. Candidates rise and candidates fall, the usual coaching-search fandango, with one constant: almost all candidates are judged on the litmus test of whether they have ever worked for Perles or Saban.

All to "carry on the tradition of the program." 68-67-4.

 

Tonight on The American Experience.
Sparty Football -- Key To American History.

 

I think Perles is more or less eqiuivalent to the George H.W. Bush of Sparty football.

 

Work hard, keep your mouth shut and good things will happen even though you don't deserve them.