So much to say

So much to say, and so long since i have said anything, well last i let you know i was working on getting over some strep throat i caught while at football camp, well, that is done with and the season for football has started. We had our first scrimmage two weeks ago and got our butts kicked...So, the monday after that scrimmage we sat down as a coaching staff and and a nice little talk about personnel and how we can better ourselves for this season. That was a very good, very open enlightening meeting which took the other JV coach and made him the offensive coordinator leaving me to call all the JV plays...two days after instituting our new offense we have our second scrimmage, this time our defense was strong, and our offense looked good considering they only had two days with the new stuff...As for my JV guys, we did really well, we scored, three times, and our defense held in there for most of the scrimmage, had a few lapses, but did a good job anyway. That brings us to today, tomorrow is our first JV game agains a very big school that has its players playing since they were born, its like U.S.S.R. olympic teams, these kids parents breed for football, its amazing.

Last weekend i went to Charleston, SC for my brother Dan's wedding, and i had an AWESOME time!!!!. Other than the excessive drinking i got to hang out with lots off old friends that i have not seen in a long time. Oh and some idiot tried to start a bar fight with me, yeah, ME. i dont get it either, i was like three times the size of this plus there were like 12 of us and 3 of his group, and i had Ironfroe in my group, then on the way back as we were about to grab some cabs back to the hotel the best man manages to hail a limo for us...lots of fun....oh, yeah, the wedding. It was awesome, AWESOMELY HOT, seriously, it looked like someone dumped a bucket of water on me, whose idea was it to have an outdoor wedding in south carolina in august anyway, but it was really nice, awesome to see the people that were there, and now i have a sister, which is nice...so yeah, i will try and get some pictures up soon. thats it for now...

Coaching has its perks...

Well, this was it August 1 4:30 a.m., my introduction to coaching Texas High School Football...Thats right 4:30 AM...no, practice didnt start that early, but so i can be up, to school, and ready to coach that is the time the alarm had to go off, and it did. First practice started at 6:30 am went really well, even when i pulled my hammy (hamstring - muscle in back of upper leg between your knee and your butt) beating a freshman out in a sprint (i'm much quicker than i look, really!) we handed out some equipment and went up to camp which was only like a half hour away, but it was still good team bonding time, and the perfect time for Strep throat to attack me and ravage my body into a fever that would cause my body to reach temperatures the texas sun would be jealous of. Then came the fun part the swollen glands causing the throat to close up and make it near impossible to swallow, but just possible enough to have a shooting pain run from my throat to my ears. Thanks to modern medicin and a little friend i like to call the Concordia Health Plan, i was able to go to the doctor, get a steroid like shot in the side of my butt, i felt like a Major League Baseball Player getting shots of steroids from Jose Conseco, then i was prescribed these monster pills that i have to take three times a day, but i am a football coach in texas, and i do get to push and pull kids around by their facemasks and yell at them ala Lou Holtz circa 1988 Notre Dame...and that makes it all worth it in the end...