Red Raider coaches in their first 2 years: Coach A : 14-11 with 7 conference wins. 2 bowl appearances, 2 bowl losses. 0-4 vs. Texas and Texas A&M Coach B: 13-12 with 6 conference wins , 1 bowl appearance , 1 bowl win. 0-4 vs. Texas and Texas A&M Coach C: 11-10-1 with 6 conference wins and no bowl appearances. 2-2 vs. Texas and Texas A&M These are the facts. They can not be denied. It is a matter of what happens in their 3rd year.
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“She smelled like Swisher Sweets and cameltoe.” Jeff
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Clarity is my friend right now. I do what I need to do right this second and I move on from there. Recently I made unhappy decisions for my family. But they had to be done. It is better to do what is unpopular and yet right than it is to do what is popular but will cause misery down the line. I’ve made the popular decisions in the past and I continue to pay for them. I say no when I mean no and sometimes even say I’ll try when I know the answer will be no. The easy yes is NEVER easy. There are always conditions, never an easy path. There is never a free lunch. I watched as people I have trusted blindside me as they have been blindsided by people that they have trusted.
I barely trust anyone. It’s sad that I don’t but trust is earned and I have watched people betray trust.
I have allowed more people to touch and enter my life. I have been enriched by their touch and I have been blessed by hopefully touching their lives poisitively.
I can’t allow myself to be negative. I allow myself to be realistic and not pessimistic.
My back isn’t great, and it will be better, maybe not as good as it was before the accident, but I am looking forward to the day that I get to pick up my son and daughter once again with all three of us crying with joy.
The day is coming and I leave it all in God’s hands. That’s all I can do.
We are so fortunate and friends like Shawn Sparks have gone and made a difference in Haiti.
I can only hope that when you come to that key fork in the road…
That you take it.
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Every day I am amazed at the friends that I have but today is not a day for me. Today is a day for all of us. For us to rise up, to be strong for those of us that can't be. For us to stand up, and be guided for those of us who are lost. For us to smile, to laugh, for their are those around us who are weary. We can either take this day and lift a hand for another or we can wonder when no one comes to lift a hand for us.
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Jake looked at his brother Troy and knew it was the day. The day he dreaded for weeks, but he was committed now.
“Look Jake, it’s easy for me to show you how to do it , but you can’t call yourself a man until you do it yourself,” Troy said with a smile on his face.
“Yeah, yeah, I know. I have to do it because you did it when you were 16, and Dad did it when he was 16 and Pappa did it when he was 16.”
“We did it because of tradition. You have to do it because, we’re assholes.”
“Great.”
As Jake looked at the task at hand he examined the bucket that his brother gave him in the morning with the encouraging words, “their small enough for you to do them in a bucket,” but he wasn’t sure what size bucket his brother, father or grandfather were given.
As he approached the area , his stomach turned as he could smell the acid from the pen.
“Why am I doing this again?” he asked as his brother started to laugh.
“Because it’s our Saturday afternoon entertainment,” Troy said.
“Stop pussyfooting around there boy, get yourself busy,” his father laughed as he spit out the chaw from his mouth grabbing the beer bottle and yelling again, “Come on Jake, get yourself some!”
Jake approached his opponent looking to the left and to the right trying to find away out of the pen. The bucket filled to the brim carefully held as not to spill any of the contents. If he spilled, he’d have to start all over again.
His eyes locked him as his nemesis looked casually around knowing what was coming but not showing fear. Jake had enough fear for both of them.
Jake started to walk slowly toward him and watched as his opponent backed up in a circle, every step closer was followed by one step back as each tried to outsmart the other.
Finally his opponent had enough. He ran and dove between Jake’s legs, confusing Jake for a second and followed it up with a bark of dis-encouragement from his father.
“Who has the bigger brain son, just get him in a corner and get the job done dammit, the sun is awastin!”
Jake put the bucket down and decided to do it his way chasing his opponent down, cornering him in the southwest part of the pen.
“Wish you had your bucket now eh Jake,” Troy said with a laugh.
“Shut up Troy, I’ve got him right where I want him,” Jake said turning his head away for a second, which was long enough for his opponent, who slipped to the right, to get away.
Cursing, Jake chased him down finally wearing his opponent down and grabbing him, running toward the bucket.
“I’ve got it, I’ve got this,” Jake says as his opponent tries to wiggle away but to no avail.
Into the bucket, his opponents head is dunked, taken out and dunked again.
“I did it, ” Jake said as he held his wet opponent in the air. “I won!”
“Yeah you did,” his father said. “Now dry the dog off and get ready for dinner.”
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