Amazing in my mind that the show The Survivor has been on for 26 years now.

It seemed like only yesterday that I watched the first year when Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize in the year 2000.

At the time, I thought that was nothing because Hatch survived only one season.

By then, Temple University’s Nadia Harvin survived her 14th season in the football program.

Whatever this stupid new show, I thought, was child’s play in comparsion.

It still is.

There is no nicer person involved in Temple football than Nadia and no survivor story anywhere in college football that even compares. Her job is “executive assistant” to the Temple football head coach and, no matter who the Temple football head coach is, she has survived.

They have not.

Nadia has been the rock of Temple football for not only Bruce Arians, but for Jerry Berndt (RIP), Ron Dickerson, Bobby Wallace, Al Golden, Steve Addazio, Matt Rhule, Geoff Collins, Rod Carey, Stan Drayton and now K.C. Keeler.

Wow.

Since all these big-time college football coaches like to bring their own staff, Nadia’s longevity is not only impressive it is spectacular. A lot of this is due to the relationships she made along the way, not only with the players but with the fans.

I thought about all of this while attending my 58th-straight Cherry and White Day. I stopped by Joe Greenwood’s tailgate, where I usually she Nadia but missed her this time.

That was one of the rare occasions, though. I almost always run into Nadia on gameday and she usually gives me a hug and when I write something negative, she admonishes me and I write something positive gives me encouragement, but she knows my heart is in the right place.

As do I with her.

When I got home I watched the excellent job Ms. Lovelace did on the above piece and have to second the motion.

This is the kind of recognition Nadia Harvin deserves.

Love her short descriptions of the coaches she served under.

Pretty damn diplomatic. Despite Daz getting Temple to a bowl game in his first season with Golden’s players, I thought that Daz was a detriment to the program. After a 4-7 season, I knew Temple football enough that the administration wasn’t going to fire him but heard on KYW radio while driving past the Rydal SEPTA Regional Rail Station that Boston College gave him a job.

I banged on the steering wheel in celebration that they took him off Temple’s hands.

When Carey was fired, I was shocked that Temple did an un-Temple-like thing in firing a guy with two years left on a $2 million per-year contract.

Didn’t want Stan Drayton because I felt a school as large and as prestigious as Temple was deserved a big-time winning head coach and not a guy whose Peter Principle was an RB coach.

Now that they have one, Temple football has become a lot more interesting than it ever was under Daz or Carey and, I for one (maybe thousands) are glad longtime people like Nadia Harvin will be around to see the results.

In this definition, interesting means winning more than it means asshole.

Monday: The Most Crowded Room