Someone tried to enlist Rock's help in a count of consecutive NCAA Division I indoor track and field championships won by the Arkansas Razorbacks, but he had no idea. He didn't even know they were on any kind of meaningful streak.
Sure, Rock and everyone else in Arkansas understood the significance of the Razorbacks' reign as the nations' premiere track program, a nearly forty-year run begun in 1982, five-years after the school hired John McDonnell as its head track coach. Rock knew much about it, but these people said the indoor team had won somewhere in the neighborhood of one-hundred or more consecutive national championships. They showed him charts and graphs on his laptop. It was clear the streak was very long, but Rock couldn't figure out how to find its length. There were no obvious lists, which seemed an incredible oversight. Why had these people come to him, he wondered.
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