Good Stuff

There are a lot of things not right with this world right now. It’s been that way pretty much throughout history: a sine wave of good and bad. Right now, it seems we are on the deep end of that curve. Our country keeps missing the fact we are pretty much evenly divided on how we should run this country and each side trying to bully their way into dominance rather than sitting down, conversing, and trying to do what’s right…for all of us.

Sad.

In the meantime, there is a college athletic program that is struggling. The minor sports are doing well but football and basketball are trying to compete in an environment not conducive to the true “student-athlete” concept of college sports.

Yet this school keeps trying. One sport is, according to moi, doing it the way it should be done in all of college athletics. The coach, Tim Corbin, is a model for doing it “the right way, the Vandy Way” as David Williams, a man who lived his own motto to perfection, described perfection.

This afternoon, Larry “Coach” Creekmore sent this link to me along with other brothers from our fraternity days at Vanderbilt . The bunch remains close, mostly through Vanderbilt sports, which more and more revolves around Vandy Boys baseball.

i am trying to put myself back at 13 with all my dreams and not anything near the athletic talent of Dylan Adams but sharing those dreams of being a college athlete. But i never reached that goal, not close. i certainly didn’t have the obstacles Dylan faced in his final days.

So Creekmore was right when he said i needed to pull out the Kleenex. This is a story of the way it should be, sad but positive.  Vandy’s baseball coach keeps proving an athletic program can be successful doing it “The Right Way, the Vandy Way.”

i don’t care what college team in any sport you root for, or even the professional sports teams you choose to follow.  Your team should be motivated to be what Vandy was for this young man and his team, and his community. All coaches, managers, directors, support staff, and the athletes themselves should strive to recognize their impact on so many fans.

Coaching icons were and are wrong when they promote “winning is the only thing.”  Grantland Rice was correct when he wrote “it’s how you play the game.”

i think this story and Vanderbilt baseball proves Grantland Rice and David Williams were right on.

Thank you, Dylan Adams; thank you, Coach Corbin; thank you, Adam Sparks of the Nashville Tennessean.

It was a good cry.

Let’s keep trying to do it the right way:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/vanderbilt/2020/11/05/vanderbilt-baseball-uniforms-dylan-adams-cancer-kumar-rocker/6073456002/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=keywee-retargeting&gps-source=adkwtnr&utm_content=dolookalikegeneral&kwp_0=1801974&kwp_4=5271536&kwp_1=2248219&fbclid=IwAR1IKDIA4jie3xKZvNuR2zUlCrbK0vhz7ZeSHXPc-DvLIPVl3XtWPOFsd1c

3 thoughts on “Good Stuff

  1. I too love Vandy sports. I get the SEC channel so i can watch them whnever they play. I watched them when the won the College World Series twice. The only thing i can’t stand is the Vandy fan who whistles in 7 spurts all the time. It is so annoying. Last year they asked him not to do it at the series. It didn’t last long. Plus i try to keep up with some of the players when they go to the “show”. Especially Dansby Swanson. Besides being a good player, he sure is good looking. Vandy football was good tonight. I thought they had a good chance but they came up a field goal short to tie.

  2. I too love Vandy sports. I get the SEC channel so i can watch them whnever they play. I watched them when they won the College World Series twice. The only thing i can’t stand is the Vandy fan who whistles in 7 spurts all the time. It is so annoying. Last year they asked him not to do it at the series. It didn’t last long. Plus i try to keep up with some of the players when they go to the “show”. Especially Dansby Swanson. Besides being a good player, he sure is good looking. Vandy football was good tonight. I thought they had a good chance but they came up a field goal short to tie.

  3. I too love Vandy sports. I get the SEC channel so i can watch them whenever they play. I watched them when they won the College World Series twice. The only thing i can’t stand is the Vandy fan who whistles in 7 spurts all the time. It is so annoying. Last year they asked him not to do it at the series. It didn’t last long. Plus i try to keep up with some of the players when they go to the “show”. Especially Dansby Swanson. Besides being a good player, he sure is good looking. Vandy football was good tonight. I thought they had a good chance but they came up a field goal short to tie.

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