The king is dead; long live the (next Bob) King!
In other words, with Paul Weir now in lame-duck status, Lobo Nation now turns its attention to the next designated savior of its beloved men’s basketball program.We’re having fun with it and no more set-up is needed other than a disclaimer that, as of Sunday, the Journal is not suggesting or implying interest between the name or school in either direction. See the photo gallery and here we go:
Names to consider
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STEVE ALFORD, Nevada head coach, 2019-present, age 56: He is listed first because the list is alphabetical. He is in year two of a 10-year contract at a Mountain West rival school. He once coached UNM to great success, so he is as revered in New Mexico as he is in Indiana. In 48 other states, his name would elicit a shrug.
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It wasn’t gold the man was after. Made good sense that the Ogallalas were suspicious and angry. Made good sense they wouldn’t tolerate yet another white man hanging around. They weren’t one bit taken with his presence.
What the white man was doing, he told them, was hunting for big bones. Some of the Ogallalas must have snickered.
That explanation didn’t help. Some white man coming into the heart of sacred land to look for bones of big four-leggeds who’d lived and died many winters before? Old bones they were digging, he said, not gold.
Much is already discussed about Jeff Bezos and how he turned Amazon, an online bookstore in the midst of the dot-com boom of the 90s, into a brand that effortlessly pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
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