Coach hiring decisions can mean a lot for a school. The Wildcats have brought such high respect for so long, even awe. This under the tutelage of Mr. Mike Dreier. I'll call him "Mister" the way Sid Hartman would say "Mr. Mike Lynn." Dreier warrants such respect. Man, I would not have expected him to stick with it this long.
Can we imagine him with Morris? One big problem with that. He would not have fit in with our school in the '80s and maybe into the '90s. But especially not in the '80s. And these things take time to turn around, like turning a barge around in a river. Because, attitudes can get so ensconced.
Morris did not have an athletics-friendly environment through the 1980s. I remember asking our boys basketball coach if we might see a certain impressive sophomore playing varsity soon. Actually the player should have already been on varsity. Nowadays we hear of players making varsity when quite young. Even in the '80s there was a program here and there where this happened.
So I asked our coach if a certain gifted player was in the wings for varsity. His abrupt response was "we don't do that here."
I'm glad this policy got erased before certain prodigy players of the future came along. You know who I'm referencing.
We once had a teaching staff which was firm in denying the best possible opportunities for athletes, probably because they felt it would compromise the priority of "academics." Secondly, some of the coaches were well-established in certain preferred social circles, and "let's not put too much pressure on them."
To hell with "academics." To hell with certain "social circles." I wanted to see Tiger athletics be fun and to aspire to lots of success and excitement with motivated coaches and a facilitating philosophy.
Heavens,
Mike Dreier would not have gotten that here!
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What pains me the most is to think that if he had actually been hired here, he would have been "dragged down." I know some of you might think I'm exaggerating. Oh I am not.
Right now our MACA athletic program looks healthy and fun. But our girls hoops team could not get past New London-Spicer on Friday at New London. We started the season with a 77-43 loss.
Like crime, death and taxes, I guess: looking at a struggle vs. the Wildcats. It's kind of like in the spring where our softball program, good as it is, can't get past those southern Minnesota teams. I continue to be puzzled by that.
Eureka: The West Central Tribune has individual scoring totals for the Tigers from Friday! Quite the rarity. Might we expect more of same now? I wonder if Dreier supplied this info. If he did, well thanks Mike.
Man, I can't believe it! Dreier is in his 47th year coaching. The Tigers are under first-year coach Justin Daly. I remember well working with Justin's father Paul.
I feel happy having some MACA names to type on this Saturday morning leading into Thanksgiving week. I'm happy to report that my next-door neighbor Addison Cihak led us in scoring with 12 points! Maddie Fehr scored 10, then we see Samantha Konz with eight, Chloe Fehr with five, Mylie Fehr with four, Ryla Koehler with three and Hana Schutz with one. No other MACA stats are available. C'mon, West Central Tribune!
A historic day for yours truly yesterday (Friday) as for the first time ever, I enjoyed consuming a diet pop! Historically if I get served one of these by mistake, my discomfort is high.
Soda pop is out of my regular habits now. Last night I took a slight detour from dietary recommendations. Nothing extreme, I'd like to think. But the kind of recommendations that I am guided to follow can suck great enjoyment out of my life.
Look, it's not like I want a package of krumkake although I'm rather dying for it! No, I'll let that taste of the Scandinavian favorite dance in my imagination a little. I am strong-willed enough to draw the line somewhere.
For a period of days where I have extra determination, I can practically bat a thousand. Eventually I want to get just a little pleasure out of eating and drinking certain things again. I even asked my waitress for one little strawberry jelly this morning, the occasion being "the weekend." Just one strawberry jelly, not the two I used to automatically get.
So I confess, just like I confess to having had a diet Mountain Dew last night. I had a bacon cheeseburger but no fries. "Fries" are a scourge for us all. I had a bowl of bean and ham soup. Is my conduct all right? Does it pass?
On weekdays I will return to my "spartan" diet. Perhaps an omelette with toast in the morning because I just have to have a decent breakfast with coffee of course. After that I take a pill that can have some bad reactions if you eat a little too much. So the rest of my day is pretty much a clean slate. I might have a simple apple or open a can of chicken noodle soup and microwave it. Then I take my second Metformin pill.
If I follow this course of behavior I'm quite fine or at least stable. But my overall food intake is limited compared to the old.
Two years ago I was diagnosed with diabetes and then I turned to YouTube for advice on how to eat. YouTube is famous for giving the most direct advice on anything. You can sample any number of posts. Like when I had a skunk intrusion on my property last spring. This is the second such crisis I've had. Be especially watchful or preventative in spring.
Any kind of intervention with skunks has great risk. You don't want a dead animal under a building like a shed. Well that was my problem: a shed. Previous to that it was our portico which I found even more scary. But the animals will move along. You can search for skunk pest info on YouTube and find of bounty of stuff. That's how YouTube is. So you search "skunk under shed" or "skunk under porch" or "skunk under deck."
Heavens, if you are thinking of adding a deck on your property, it's advisable to ask about making it critter-proof. If not you could be in a world of hurt.
But diabetic diet? I was shocked that the available information left me confused. So much of the information was sort of "arcane." I couldn't just grasp it and use it. So why might this be? I am thinking that it's because there are so many heavy restrictions on what you can eat with this condition. So many, we might joke that we really ought not eat anything.
Eventually I just have to conclude "life is going to go on, and I'll need some things to eat and drink that are reasonably pleasurable."
I joked with a friend at the Willie's Cafe about how tempting the "krumkake" from the bakery is. He laughed and suggested in effect "you only go around once in life, go ahead and have some." I have not succumbed to this yet. But I did have a Diet Mountain Dew with my bacon cheeseburger last night. And I had a little strawberry jelly with my Texas toast this morning.
OK? Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die? Let's not talk about the death part of that. But we all do eventually die. If you keep seeing me walking out along the bypass east of town, you'll know I'm OK.
I tried refusing my last doctor's appointment but a nurse on the phone got real assertive with me. It took two phone calls. The female nurse succeeded in dragging me in, figuratively speaking. I get easily intimidated by women.
- Brian Williams - morris mm minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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