I always told my players to be like a pineapple. Be sweet, and people will just eat you up, but…

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I always told my players to be like a pineapple. Be sweet, and people will just eat you up, but grow a hard exterior and you can have the best of both worlds. You should also be like a pineapple in that you grow where you’re planted, even if someone cuts your head off and you have to grow a new body. That’s a quote I got from my good friend Woody Hayes, who survived three decapitations and came back stronger each time. There’s a lesson in that for all of us.

The Alphabetical this week examines all manner of college football nonsense, but mostly it’s just wondering what the hell Lou Holtz was talking about on Thursday night and goggling at Denard Robinson, the freewheeling, death-defying Mexican rally car of quarterbacks who is eight miles ahead early and pulling away.

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