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I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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