HBD: congrats to Jerry Jones as he celebrated his birthday today…

34 of those years have been spent as the owner of the organization, and under his guide have capture Super Bowls XXVII, XXVIII and XXX. While it’s been over two decades since the Cowboys last world championship, but those inside the organization have nothing respect for him, and made the following victory to showcase just that.

The former son coming home? Yeah, that’ll play. Pope was part of Rick Pitino’s 1995-96 national championship team in Lexington, and has long been rumored as a potential Calipari successor strictly because of that background. Of course, stepping into a job of this magnitude requires more than just a feel-good story — and on that front, Pope amplified his credentials this season in a major way, leading BYU to 23 wins and an NCAA Tournament berth in the program’s first season in the Big 12. Pope runs gorgeous offense — the Cougars finished this season No. 14 nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency, per KenPom — and now has two NCAA Tournament appearances in five

turns 69 in October. He is also the reigning AP coach of the year. The way it makes sense: Sampson is wanting to take one grand-slam swing at a national championship before he retires while leaving his son, Kellen, with a well-stocked cupboard as his successor.

It was made perfectly clear by Smart’s reps that he wasn’t interested in some prominent openings earlier in this cycle, but none of those jobs were Kentucky. The easy argument against this is that Smart already lived the life of a major, state school, hyper-high profile job, and it didn’t work out. But Texas and Kentucky are not remotely similar jobs. Kentucky is a basketball school — maybe the basketball school — and is the equivalent of Marquette on all available steroids. We wonder if Smart would have interest in turning his life upside down in the most dramatic way possible, but wouldn’t he at least have to answer the call, if it comes?