Coaching

Hey everyone. Sorry I've been gone for a while. It has been a crazy few weeks. Last Wednesday I set the record for being in the HUB at Huntington for 12 hours. Literally. It has a bathroom and it serves food. I didn't leave. But now that I have a spare moment I thought that I should share it with all of you.

So you know what "they" say about coaches yelling at players? It's ok when they yell at you. In fact it's a good thing. The time that you really have to worry is when they stop yelling. That means that they've given up on you.

I actually had that happen to me. My Senior year of football I was going to start on the 0-line but then this other guy walked onto the team and he was probably the best natural athlete in my highschool. Three weeks into the season it became abundantly clear that Steve Conn wasn't going to see much playing time that year, and since he was graduating, he really had no future with the team. So why not just let him slide.

I never got called on to play special teams, I never had to demonstrate drills, and I never got yelled at. The only time my name ever got mentioned was in a positive way. It was pretty awesome. Although, I never got to play, and everyone on the team realized that I wasn't really a part of the team in a real sense. I had been put out to pasture.

When I'm thinking about how I want to grow in humility, I remember incidents that humiliated me and I think of some of the "hard knocks" my ego has to take from time to time (for example, I belive I am going to be unemployed in the near future). But it makes me happy that God hasn't given up on me yet. These humiliating experiences that I so hate are really coaching moments. And thank goodness God hasn't put me out to pasture. The fact that god keeps humbling me is evidence that I'm still "on the team."