I was lucky enough to room with Evy’s grandson at Iowa 10 years ago (wow). Regrettably, I didn’t know much about that history at that time. But I soon did. Picture sitting at the Field Whore with your new roommates drinking, looking over at the wall, and seeing “EVASHEVSKI WINS ROSE BOWL!” newspaper articles framed on the wall next to you. Pretty cool.

Anyway, we still keep in touch and visit once in awhile. I met his family during once of the parent’s weekends and they were very nice folks. I believe I might have shaken hands with the granddad himself.

I hope he’s made as comfortable as possible when his time comes. Thanks Evys.

….obviously Evy is the pimp in this situation (in that picture he looks like Vince Vaughn from the Starsky & Hutch remake), and the rest of the Big Ten were the hoes.

I’m a huge fan, and I can’t believe that I didn’t know Evy is still with us. Why does Iowa not talk about its National Champion Coach? Mind boggling. [And, my god, what a fuckin pimp.]

What Kerry Collins would look like if he was a pimp.

Evy would take a shit all over that Dos Equis goofball, steal his women, drink his beer, all while parallel parking his much, much nicer car and laughing all the while. Holy fuck, what a bad ass.

Space time continuum be damned.

Two or three times a year, Keeler actually writes something worth reading…

“Michigan State QB Cousins has Black and Gold in His Blood”

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091022/SPORTS05/910230351/1003/SPORTS

Is a total badass, lighting a fucking victory cigar with 30 seconds to go, and being on the field playing. This is why America is turning into a nation of pussies… I bet Evy would bitchslap Adrian Clayborn if the two could somehow meet back in the day.

“It’s gonna be an effing bootleg. Just a hunch.

needs to be thought of in context of the times. Complicated. Learned about it in a sociology class when I was at Iowa and it was fascinating. The prof made it seem like competing agendas were at play on both sides, and that both sides lacked any real argument against the other. In otherwords, football had become a political football.

Wonder if Denny Greene was ever thought about as a candidate for the Iowa job along with Stoops and Ferentz….probably not because he was at Minnesota? Just talking out loud on that one.

or someone else with too much time on their hands, could you provide me with some context to this ‘Black Boycott’, or point me in the right direction with some links, so that I don’t feel like a full-blown dissapointment / fucking retard the rest of the wknd? otherwise, it’s sounds about as real as the holocaust to me. thanks in advance

I just checked. But, here is a snippet from on-line and it jibes with my understanding of it:

“1969 was a volatile year, with Vietnam War protests and the civil rights movement gaining full steam. In the spring of 1969, Nagel dismissed two black players from the team for disciplinary reasons. This played a role in motivating 16 black players to ignore Nagel’s repeated warnings and boycott spring practice. Nagel immediately dismissed the 16 players from the team. That summer, Nagel allowed the dismissed athletes to appeal to the team for reinstatement. The team allowed seven of the twelve athletes who appealed for reinstatement to rejoin the squad.”

It is worth adding that these were days when the details of any disciplinary action was not printed in headlines for all to see—it was “in house”. I think it was later learned that these guys had a brush with the law. So Nagel dismissed them. The other black player saw this as a moment of solidarity, rallied around this issue to not only challenge these dismissals but to argue and debate other much larger civil rights issues. The details from there are debated.

My understanding is that Nagel was a tough guy, rules were rules and that was his stance. Like Bellanca said, he was not a bigot and while he was not a great coach by record, he seems to be the best of the immediate pre-Hayden era.

The more juicy aspect to all this is that Evashevski apparently did not get along with Nagel (he was notoriously a micro manager) and some say he saw this as an opportunity to get rid of Nagel and coach the team himself (he denied that of course). Again, this was a period when firing a coach was a bit more of a slow play and needed buy-in from outside the athletic department.

The long and short of it from what I learned, is that Nagel was quite gracious to the players and may have even been more willing to work with them than they deserved, but they wanted a fight—-a high profile fight at that—and this was too juicy of an opportunity. The players were not reinstated because the “team” voted them down too, as I understand it. I didn’t know this at the time but read on line today that Dennis Greene (former Cardinal coach) was one of the reinstated players.

was there any equipment of his day, that Chuck Long did not wear (other than the neck roll)? Sheesh…

He was damn good though.

 
Whose hand was he shaking?
 

Don’t be fooled. Joe Rexrode’s sentences are complete and worth reading. The same can be said for the sentences in the rest of that rag.

Evy has been kicking ass for 91 years. Let him see this one through.

Tommie Smith was my football coach, and my ex-‘s track coach, back at Oberlin in the late 1970’s.

In ‘68, entire cities were on fire. Returning to IC from Montreal, summer ’68, as a child, after my father had covered de Gaulle in Quebec City, who was advocating an independent Quebec and the destruction of the Canadian confederation, we had to divert. We couldn’t go through Windsor/Detroit. We had to do the Buffalo turn. That was because Detroit was on fire, as many cities were on fire that summer, and the National Guard was deployed in U.S. cities, like Detroit, to try to stop the violence. This isn’t talked about much in schools any more .

Ray Nagel was an extremely classy guy during a very bad time.