Special Guest Post – Linda Bowden on “Coaches Wives”
Since football season is upon us, Tommy has asked me to write a blog about what it is like to be a coach’s wife. So here it goes… I believe that it takes a special kind of woman to be a good coach’s...
View ArticleWeek 1 College Football Recap
We have ideas of what teams will look like, and we project based on returning talent, talking with coaches, watching practices and making educated guesses. But we never really know until we see what’s...
View ArticleIF THE NCAA PLAYOFF’S STARTED TODAY – WHO’S IN..AND WHO’S ON THE BUBBLE!
I know we are only two weeks into the season but let’s take a look at our top 4 teams for this years new playoff system and the next two teams in the on deck circle. Being this early in the season you...
View ArticleHow To Defeat a Better Team – Play With “THE BIG E’s”
If there is one thing in football that can help you defeat a team that has better players, it has to be…the Big E’s: EMOTION, EFFORT, ENERGY, and ENTHUSIASM. I don’t care how much better your players...
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Coaching Decions Behind the Lines
Possibly the best game of the short season was played in Tallahassee last Saturday night as the nationally ranked Clemson Tigers took on Florida State, the defending National Champions. Going into the...
View ArticleSaturday Special – NCAA College Football Ramps Up!
Whatever domestic chores your wife has lined up for you this Saturday, you might want to put them on hold. This will be one of the best Saturday’s for multiple great games in a long time. The SEC West...
View ArticleMy Recap of Last Weekends Upsets – Halloween Must be Close!
You can tell Halloween must be close because the ghost and goblins were out in college football this week. That is about the only way you can explain what happened in the Top Ten as five of the ten got...
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Two Reasons “The Magnolia State” is Turning College Football Upside Down!
The State of Mississippi has got to be ecstatic on what has transpired in the first half of the college football season. When the college football rankings came out Sunday afternoon, Mississippi State...
View ArticleThe Call that kept Florida State Unbeaten
I would imagine many of you saw the great game Saturday night between #2 Florida State vs. #5 Notre Dame. It went back and forth all night, just like two heavyweight boxers exchanging blows for 15...
View ArticleThe Six Teams Leading the Pack in NCAA Div 1 Football
Tuesday at 7:30 pm the first college football official ranking comes out. Since I vote in the USA Today Coaches poll I thought it might be interesting to go ahead and list my top 6 and see how they...
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Tell The Thruth
“We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” Acts 4:20 I saw an interpretation of this verse in a devotional book the other day that really made a lot of sense to me. We must be bold...
View ArticleTop 6 Teams in College Football
As we head into the last few games of the season, lets take another look at my top 6 teams for the playoffs for the National Championship. Even though things will change before the season is over, it...
View Article3 Factors That Might Determine The NCAA College Football Championship
As we near the end of the season, it’s interesting to see the strengths of the top 6 playoff teams start to emerge. If you take the last 15 – 20 national champions, the one statistic that seems to be a...
View ArticleRivalry Week
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on how much we have to be thankful for. Many of us are thankful for our children, the health of our parents or this great country. Then there is that shallow group of...
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One BIG Reason Why The College Football Playoff Selection Committee Needs...
I have been fairly pleased with the weekly rankings of the Selection Committee for the college football playoffs so far. It is a good committee…and politically correct committee…it’s just not the...
View ArticleTwo Reasons The Big 12 was Eliminated from the College Football Playoffs
Saturday night I had to cast my ballot for the USA Today’s Coaches Poll. My top six were : 1. Alabama 2. Oregon 3. Florida State 4. Ohio State 5. Baylor 6. TCU I really was not surprised when the...
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Occupiers or Liberators? Lessons Learned from The Battle of The Bulge
I am in Bastogne, Belgium with my father shooting a World War 2 Documentary on the 70th anniversary of the war. We are concentrating this trip on the Battle of the Bulge. My father has been an avid...
View ArticleThe Reason for the Season
More than 2000 years after Jesus was born there are still doubters as to whether Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Son of God, God in the Flesh. Even with the beauty of Gods earthly creation and the...
View ArticleNote for President Obama and the US Congress – Make 2015 Count
With the beginning of a new year here’s hoping that the Congress of 2015 will accomplish more than it has over the last several years. It doesn’t seem to matter whether we have a Republican President...
View ArticleTwo Coaches That Stood Tall In 2014
There were some great coaching jobs done this year in college football. You could make a legitimate case for several coaches that would be very deserving of Coach of the Year. After being a Head Coach...
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