callshot
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Living another day in the worlds largest playground
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Post by callshot on Dec 15, 2018 11:38:27 GMT -5
Good going.
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Post by bula on Dec 15, 2018 11:55:35 GMT -5
Are you sure that shirt is big enough ? Ok, kidding aside, the award nicer than a 42 point buck on the wall. Congrats !
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Post by sixshot on Dec 15, 2018 13:22:55 GMT -5
Thanks guys, it's very satisfying to run into these kids (now adults) and see how they have turned out in life & scattered all over the USA. Last week I saw a guy walking across the gym floor towards me & he came up & shook my hand & ask if I knew him, I didn't. He was bald as a Que ball & had added a few pounds & is now the head basket ball coach in Logan, Utah. He was an amazing BB player for me when I coached the boys & was mentioned in some of the national magazines. The kid next door is now a Dr. in Phoenix, Arizona. Another is a Dentist in Bozeman, Montana & when we see each other we bust out laughing because of a joke I told in the huddle during a time out. It's just fun to see them & re live old times, it never gets old.
Dick
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lobo
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Location: SE Mississippi
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Post by lobo on Dec 17, 2018 14:44:43 GMT -5
Congratulations my friend!
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 17, 2018 21:43:03 GMT -5
Congratulations to you and the girls Dick! I'm sure they are as appreciative of you as you are proud of them!!! You've obviously made an impact in more ways than one.
Now.... about that joke.... is it safe here or are ya gonna have to send it to me in a PM???
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Joe S.
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Post by Joe S. on Dec 17, 2018 22:14:54 GMT -5
The sixgunnin coach. Well I’ll be!!
Congrats!
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Post by sixshot on Dec 18, 2018 1:09:47 GMT -5
Stump Buster, about the joke. We were playing a road game down in Utah & my JV boys were down 8 at the half. I told them in the locker room that you never let your opponent play to his strength, take away his right hand dribble & you'll slow him down. They had been killing us with drives to the basket. We slowly started getting back into the game, except for Cliff, my Dentist in Bozeman! I called a late time out & quite loudly said, CLIFF, if that kid broke his right hand he would starve to death. The other kids broke out laughing & Cliff caught on & we sneaked out of there with a win. That was about 1991 & every time I've ever seen Cliff he busts out laughing & tells me that story. Great memories! While I'm on a roll I might as well tell you the best one. We had one football game left to finish out an undefeated season & it was against our biggest rival & it was my old high school so I wanted it pretty bad. With small schools you don't really have a JV team, you have a freshman-sophomore team & you have a varsity. I had the frosh-soph team but the varsity had taken the top 6 sophomore's at the start of the season, I never had them but hoped the head coach would let me have them for this final game because I knew my old school would load up for us, he said no! Anyway all week in practice I pushed the kids hard, they were griping about how hard I was working them & 2 days before the big game I had them doing push ups, lots of them. Now this is a Mormon town & almost all of my players, including myself are Mormon so we are pretty careful......usually, about what we say. One of my bigger kids who was probably the most religious kid on the team was really struggling, he was moaning & groaning with each push up & as I walked by one of the kids said, coach, what's wrong with Matt & I said, I think he found a WORM HOLE & I guess everyone heard it because they all just collapsed laughing! We won that game 18-13. Matt is now a Veterinarian.
Dick
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 18, 2018 1:42:04 GMT -5
Ha Ha... Good Stuff Dick! Thanks for the laugh and CONGRAT's again!!!
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Post by oddshooter on Dec 25, 2018 10:16:57 GMT -5
Some of my very best memories in life were of my coaching days with a local team of high school kids. It was a time I loved and a group of kids that were hungry for mentoring.
The joke I always told was that you play basketball naked, everyone can see you. If you are a cheap shot artist or a kid without character, everyone knows. Play with pride and show folks what you're made of.
Twenty years later, one of the boys is now my Chief Financial Officer. I trust that boy like my own son.
So, Dick, I know of what you speak and have an inkling of the satisfaction that comes from putting kids on the right path. Nothing quite like it.
Congrats, bud.
Prescut
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