More Bacon?? mmmmm

Looks like he/somebody is picking the questions deliberately to take one at a time; not such an exciting chat experience, but a lot easier to read.

I pre-ordered mine also, beveled guilt, and was "shipping soon" for 4 days.  Now my expected arrival date is Nov 2nd... Good thing I didn't want to join any of the discussions on the board the last 4 days.

That's weird.... I put off preordering and then once it was released, realized I had to have it.  I ordered it Friday on Amazon and it came yesterday.

Write an angry e-mail!  It works!  Sort of.

Wondering why I kept hearing (on this master blog) about people already getting their books, impatient because they'd only gotten their shipping notices, etc., when I hadn't even gotten that, I checked "my account" and saw that indeed, I had pre-ordered on June 18, the book status was "not shipped" and the estimated shipping date was "Oct. 31 - Nov. 4."

I spent an hour figuring out how to actually write to them (needless to say, our problem was not an auto-answer in the "shipping problem" category on the customer service page), I asked the same question you have, "What was the point in pre-ordering if it wasn't going to be shipped until a week or more after publication?" -- and adding my regrets in not waiting long enough to learn I could have linked from here or Bacon's website so one of them would have gotten some support points.  Of course I added at the end, "I'll never pre-order from Amazon again."

Believe it or not, I got a response the very next morning, stating that "a problem" had been discovered (though never identifying it) and in their deep remorse they offered me the fast shpping I hadn't paid for.  The book was at the door of my apartment the following morning.  Yes, not ideal, but it's in my grubby hands as I write.  (Okay, it's on the other side of the table.)

Good luck.

PS:  And if you find out what the actual problem was, I'll look for your post.  Now that I have the book, I'm more forgiving.

I did the exact same thing for the exact same reason.  Mine arrived here in Cleveland last Friday morning.

Unless it is a specialty shop, there are few left. It is jarring to walk past the blank storefront at Liberty and Maynard now. 

Anyway, I ordered it last Wednesday and it arrived on Friday. The Amazon Prime membership did not fail me. 

I just called Red's. They will have books for sale. It's an informal thing, not a dinner event. He'll just be at a table answering questions and signing books. 

represents our fine head-to-head record vs. the Irish since the death of Bo and the 4-game losing streak of doom: 4-1.

Well, he is married to the writer of a cooking blog...

And on the topic of marinating bacon: I highly recommend marinating bacon in Jack Daniels before cooking. Also works for beef jerkey. Seriously, try it.

Yeah I was kinda pissed that they were having book reviews the day I got mine in the mail.  I am only on page 140ish and would love to discuss it further on here once more people have had a chance to read it all the way through.  

...about 39 years earlier.  Canham asked new coach Bo Schembechler to keep all of Bump Elliott's staff.  Bo did much as Rodriguez did later; he kept only a few of the prior assistants (George Mans and Frank Maloney were kept by Bo; Fred Jackson was kept by Rich) and just about all of the office/equipment staff.

What was interesting to me, was that Mary Sue Coleman seemed as though she might have been well versed on that history, and Martin had no clue.

I think it is common in that situation; the AD knows the preceding football staff; he knows how hard they worked for significantly less pay and with little other job security.  There is a loyalty factor.  Martin may have thought just as Canham did decades before.  Canham, a former track coach himself, may also have thought highly of Bump's staff.  (And another interesting parallel was that in both cases the predecessor coach -- Bump/Carr -- was going into the AD office, and had not been summarily fired.  And so there was further loyalty to coaches whose boss wasn't really leaving the program.) 

 thBut But the result in both cases was the same.  The new head coaches want their own guys to run their systems, and they are grateful for just a few guys to be kept over, to help with transitional things.