Random time:
- In the full swing of June summer ball. When I retire, I'll miss this part of coaching the least. Little kids camp, riding the cheese wagon when it's 85-90 and humid, hot gyms, etc. Over it.
- A little note on graduations - dignity and decorum are long gone. It's anything goes at this point. Our high school's graduation was in Diddle Arena a week and a half ago. You could barely hear the kids names announced over the arena audio due to the noise. It's beyond hootin' and hollerin' now. We've got airhorns, confetti poppers, chanting, and I think I even heard one cowbell. It's unreal. Out of 317 graduating seniors, there may have been 20 kids where there was dignified grace and silent reverence.
- Kids' hygiene today is also awful. I had a senior class - 18 year old young adults - and there were 4-5 kids in there that stunk to high heaven. I had conversations with them, youth services, their 1st block PE teacher, the works. It never improved.
And it's kids that *know* better but they still fancy wearing the same hoodie 4 out of 5 days. Finally they started going out into the hall and wiping themselves down with Dude wipes. They don't care.
- You know it's time to retire when . . .
- Y'all ever notice how all jockeys sound alike? I don't mean like their accents. I'm talking about their pitch. It's like they all just took a hit of helium out of a birthday balloon or something.
- Melo, you give HORRIBLE advice.
- Extremely controversial take: Original Dot's Pretzel seasoning over Grippo's BBQ seasoning by a nose at the wire. I said it. I don't regret it.
- I refuse to believe that Modelo is now the number 1 beer sold in America. Refuse to believe it.
- It's time to have a conversation about Extra Toasty Cheddar Jack Cheez-Itz. I don't care about your diet and fitness goals. Eat some. They're really good.
- Tommy was right about Southern Maine in his post a month or so ago. Very underrated part of the country. Visited last October and I still think about it. The natural scenery. The "space." The access to civilization with the ability to get lost in nature just steps away. If you want solitude, you got it. If you want some social interaction, they have that too.
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It's also very easy to be progressive/woke/on the right side of history/morally elite/etc. up there because that place is full of upper-mid to wealthy white people. And hikers.
- No flex . . . zone. No flex . . . zone. They KNOOOOOWWWWW better! They KNOWWWWWWWW better!










