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You know how one person jumps in the shotgun seat, sits back, relaxes, and enjoys the ride? Trusts the driver to drive? While another fella is all up in the driver's ear, turn here, don't brake so hard, use your turn signal, and on and on?
Sometimes we can be like that second guy with our football team. With our coaches. Constantly assessing and critiquing them.
But here's the fact: Tennessee does not have to win games in the exact, play-by-play way WE think they ought to. They can, instead, do it the way the coaches think is best.
Sometimes I think the Game Day thread on here is the worst thing we could possibly do. Because it invites us to comment throughout the game. To be in "transmit" mode, rather than "receive." We notice a lot more, and learn a whole lot more, while in receive mode.
But this thread isn't about the Game Day threads. Instead, it's about each of us, and how well we can enjoy this wondrous ride we're on. It's about the suggestion that perhaps our coaches know what they're doing far better than we do, and that if we'd stop trying to tell them how we would've done it, we might learn something from how they did it. A little humility.
A few different media commentators have made comments to the effect that they "saw Josh Heupel mature this week." They think they saw him grow. Perhaps what they really saw was their own understanding of Josh Heupel grow. Maybe he knew how to use a defense all along, and this just happened to be the first time he needed to. The presumption by the media types that they knew something Josh was just now learning, that's probably actually 180 degrees backwards.
Anyway, I think this point goes beyond football, and can be really useful in life. For all of us. When you're not driving, let the driver drive. When you're not in charge, stop stepping on the heels of the person in the lead. Relax, enjoy, trust.
Because there's a whole heckuva lot more to enjoy as long as Josh Heupel & Co are leading our lads. To quote the man, the best is still out there in front of us.
Go Vols!
Sometimes we can be like that second guy with our football team. With our coaches. Constantly assessing and critiquing them.
But here's the fact: Tennessee does not have to win games in the exact, play-by-play way WE think they ought to. They can, instead, do it the way the coaches think is best.
Sometimes I think the Game Day thread on here is the worst thing we could possibly do. Because it invites us to comment throughout the game. To be in "transmit" mode, rather than "receive." We notice a lot more, and learn a whole lot more, while in receive mode.
But this thread isn't about the Game Day threads. Instead, it's about each of us, and how well we can enjoy this wondrous ride we're on. It's about the suggestion that perhaps our coaches know what they're doing far better than we do, and that if we'd stop trying to tell them how we would've done it, we might learn something from how they did it. A little humility.
A few different media commentators have made comments to the effect that they "saw Josh Heupel mature this week." They think they saw him grow. Perhaps what they really saw was their own understanding of Josh Heupel grow. Maybe he knew how to use a defense all along, and this just happened to be the first time he needed to. The presumption by the media types that they knew something Josh was just now learning, that's probably actually 180 degrees backwards.
Anyway, I think this point goes beyond football, and can be really useful in life. For all of us. When you're not driving, let the driver drive. When you're not in charge, stop stepping on the heels of the person in the lead. Relax, enjoy, trust.
Because there's a whole heckuva lot more to enjoy as long as Josh Heupel & Co are leading our lads. To quote the man, the best is still out there in front of us.
Go Vols!
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