It is weird that with a 7 game winning season so far, I chose a simple sinking ship painting instead of a collage. But that is where I think we are at. After the let down yesterday, I am not going to spend a lot of time on this one. In fact, the following Ten Things were written on my phone:
I've spent most of my life with a connection to Marshall University. When I lived in Huntington, I want to more basketball games than football games. When I moved to Columbus after graduation, I went to one or two football games a year, and followed them at Alumni Association game watching parties at Rush Creek and through the box scores. When I moved to Maryland, I made a commitment to be at every home football game. I did that so that my daughter would have a strong connection to Huntington and my family and friends. This was during Byron's tenure. Things were great then. I fairly quickly amalgamated my personal identity from someone who loves the Tri-State and Marshall University with being a Herdfan. For the year that I lived in Colorado, I took great pride in flying in for each of the home games (I missed one that year). Moving to Indy, I got back into the region of the country that I consider home. I am back to being able to go to Reds and Bengals games. I see my family and friends more. I am not as dependent upon the success of our football program to define the identity that I wish to have. During WKU's beat down on us last year, I crashed. With my daughter's application process to Marshall University, I have gotten back to focusing on Marshall University as a separate entity from the sports programs. This past weekend, we brought another potential student from Indy to join my daughter at the office of recruitment's Green-White Day. I had the opportunity to show him my home town and how the alumni interact with the University and the Athletics Program. As I continue to work on separating the two, here are the Ten Things I Think I Know After Four Days in the Land of Milk and Honey:
Maybe I spent too much time standing at Keith's Key Market in 8th grade reading National Lampoon magazine with my buddy Kevin, but I like parodies. In a year in which people throw around the term "Fake News" like it is real news, I thought I would attempt a Fake News Parody. Just in case any of the readers don't watch politics, the term "Fake News" typically refers to propaganda that spreads misinformation or hoaxes. In 2016, it isn't always clear which news source or post on social media is real or fake. In this blog, the headline of each of my ten things is intended to be a parody. Everything after the colon is intended to be an actual observation. Anyway, this can't work out any worse than my WWII themed blog a couple years ago:
At the beginning of the year, I knew that my work schedule wasn't going to allow me to post a timely blog each week. I've also found it challenging to balance maximizing the time I have left before my daughter heads off to college next year. Here are the Ten Things I Think I Know About Being 6-2:
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