Coyne was actually my teacher in grad school

by HullieAndMikes, Yelling at Sam Cane, Dunedin, Friday, February 03, 2012, 07:13 (5241 days ago) @ Greg

Apparently I was the first Domer he actually taught (and I got him to sign my copy). Best piece of his writing advice: "You don't give someone flowers, you give someone roses."

I haven't read it in ages, maybe I should go back.

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Reading suggestions on recent ND football history? - HullieAndMikes, 2012-02-03, 06:27
- Alan Grant put out an absolutely fantastic book - Domer99, 2012-02-03, 09:17
  - Laugh all you want, - Pete, 2012-02-03, 10:14
  - Isn't that the source of "you know you need me"? - CK08, 2012-02-03, 09:23
- all you need to know - Jay, 2012-02-03, 07:36
- Another good one is Domers - Greg, 2012-02-03, 07:10
  - Coyne was actually my teacher in grad school - HullieAndMikes, 2012-02-03, 07:13
    - What the hell does that mean? - Slainte Joe, 2012-02-03, 07:37
      - The Big 10 championship is what we play for. - Greg, 2012-02-03, 08:56
      - People hate all other types of flowers. - KGB, 2012-02-03, 08:31
        
        Just one more nugget of wisdom ... - Slainte Joe, 2012-02-03, 08:41
      - One of my friends was PLS - Jim (fisherj08), 2012-02-03, 08:09
        
        One of my very good friends from my tiny-ass hometown - Chris (HCC), 2012-02-03, 10:19
        
        Yeah. - Slainte Joe, 2012-02-03, 09:26
      - Specificity is the soul of narrative. - Pete, 2012-02-03, 07:53
        
        That counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor - Jeff (BGS), 2012-02-03, 08:28
- Scott Eden's book covers mostly Willingham - CK08, 2012-02-03, 06:49
- And you want to do this, why? - BillyGoat, 2012-02-03, 06:36
  - I'm an Irish Catholic. I can't help myself. - HullieAndMikes, 2012-02-03, 06:37
    - Well, I'd recommend a hairshirt and cilice belt over - BillyGoat, 2012-02-03, 07:28
    - Irish-Catholic is practically Jewish - Greg, 2012-02-03, 06:58
      - I always think of that line from The Departed ... - HullieAndMikes, 2012-02-03, 07:10

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Coyne was actually my teacher in grad school