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Unexpected
You know certain things when you go into coaching. You know you will teach the sport, you know you will lead young men and women into competition and you know there will be the inevitable bumps in the...
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#MostUnlikelySportsHighlightEver
Seven years ago, on July 7, 2004, THE SHOT HEARD AROUND CLAY CENTER occurred. A home run was hit in a summer American Legion baseball game at Kelly Campbell Field. I can’t remember who we played that...
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A Wave of Football Memories
A funny thing struck me this morning, a lightning bolt of memories whose beauty and simplicity opened the floodgates. Our local high school, the high school where I coached football from 2000-2008, is...
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The Crap Quotes
Warning: This post is rated PG-13 for language. Language. Communication. Coaching. Teaching. When one is coaching teenage boys, these four points listed above can become a challenge. Kids have...
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The Snap
The sound. The sharp snap of a chin strap being fastened. It is a beautiful sound; a quick click of metal fastening to metal, followed by the crisp echo as the sound waves move through the plastic...
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Apples and Crackers
When it came to coaching football, I was stupid. Seriously, most of the time, I was too oblivious to things going on outside of football while we were supposed to be doing football. Case in point,...
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How In The World…?
Another DAVID AND GOLIATH post on one of my favorite football coaching memories. I learned a valuable lesson about succeeding as the underdog early in my football coaching career. I learned this from...
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Coach Wilson
I pulled an old t-shirt from the drawer to wear for our walk last night. It was one from the deepest, forgotten bottom of my shirt drawer. It brought a smile to my face and unleashed a flood of good...
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The Best Decision I Hated
After high school baseball practice my first spring as a Rule 10 coach in 2000, I dropped off a book to newly promoted head football coach Paul Lane and assistant football coach Matt Brenzikofer as...
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“Never be good for any thing.”
What good, Isaac’s mother and the servants wondered, was such a bookish boy? The servants thought he was “silly” and “would never be good for any thing.” – from Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of...
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