Coaching Update

Mail Time!!

So, I found my top 4 schools I want to apply to and I am sending my coaching packages off this week.  I have had them read and critiqued and I got a good reaction from them so now lets just hope I can land an interview and sell myself as the best option to turn these schools into a State Title Contender!!

School is going good.  I have been doing a good job staying on top of my assignments and I even have been finishing a majority of them early which is good so I can spend the weekend playing X Box 360!!!.

I also have started working out! 3 weeks in and I am staying strong and working hard!  I start every workout with 30 mins of cardio and then I lift.  Just trying to stay motivated and dedicated!

My next goal is to find exactly what school I will do my Transition 2 Teaching at and also taking and passing Praxis Exams!!!

Well I will try to do a better job of keeping up with my blog!  One of my friends threatened me with bodily harm if I didn't haha!!

R&B Slow Jam of the day!

OK I know I have been slipping, but I missed you guys and to show how much I missed you....

Aaron Hall - I miss you

Coaching Update

First off let me say, what a great national championship game!  I had no ties to any team and I didn't care who won it was just good to see a great game played by two great teams!  Congrats to Auburn for pulling it out!!

OK so coaching update!

I finished my first coaching package and my coaching resume.  I finished my defensive playbook, but I am still working on my offensive playbook.  Let me just say this takes a lot of work!  I have put in a lot of hours in putting these things together, I am just hoping that it all pays off for me.  I have been helped a great deal by my mentor and a man who is like a father to me Kevin Wright, his advice is always helpful and I love how he keeps it 100 with me no matter what, because sometimes you need to hear the truth regardless of how it will make you feel.

On another note school starts this week, so go ahead and shoot me now!  I don't think it will be that bad, I have 6 classes and one of them doesn't start until March so that gives me a little breathing room until then.

My next step is to send my coaching packages off to perspective schools and let's hope I have enough experience and charisma to land an interview to let them know how great I am and how great I can make their high school program!!

Until next time...

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong

My Coaching Journey

At the advice of a friend of mine, I decided to chronicle my journey to become a head coach!

For those who do not know me, my dream is to one day be a very very successful head coach of a major high school.  I would really love the opportunity one day to move to Texas or Florida and become a coaching legend there.  I also want to become a high school counselor.  The reason I want to do this is because I see a lot of kids who need someone to show they actually care about them and they need positive black male role models in their life.  I want to to show my players that sports is a great outlet and a great way to stay in trouble, but that it is not the only way to improve your current situation.

I finally feel like I am ready to become a head coach so I have started my search.  There are a few smaller schools I plan on applying to so I am hoping for the best.

The first part of the process for me is finishing school.  I am taking 18 credit hours this semester and 6 credit hours during the summer so I can start my teaching classes in the fall.  I know this will be tough especially working full time but whatever it takes for me to achieve this dream I am willing to do!  When I start my teaching classes a school will be able to hire as a contracted teacher.

Over the next coming weeks I will continue to update you on how things are panning out and also on what I am doing to achieve my goals.

Heavy Heart

I don't really know how to start this post or even what I am trying to say so bare with with me as I try to express my feelings.

Yesterday morning a girl I've known since 6th grade was found dead in her apartment and later the person who admitted to killing her turned out to be another guy I knew in middle school and her foster brother.  This has me just at a loss for words.  Although Rachel and I haven't talked much since high school I can't explain how hurt I am by this.  I sat at work all day and tried not to cry but my heart is heavy.  This was a girl who had a beautiful daughter in 2008 and turned her life around and seemed to be doing so well.  Now there will be a little girl who will grow up and probably won't be able to remember her mother's face or voice and she will never know how it feels have a mother who is always there for you.  Last night I sat and I thought about Rachel's family and her closest friends and how heavy their heart must be especially knowing who did this, and I thought to myself if this had been one of my closest friends or my family, is my faith strong enough for me to leave it alone, and also have I matured enough from who I once was to let the law take it course? 

In October The Lord called my "big sister" Joi Warren home and that was one of the toughest funerals I've dealt with, she did so much for so many people and was always there it's just hard to believe that she is gone and its harder to believe it was truly her time to go.  Joi was amazing that's the only way to describe her!  When I was going through some things at Purdue she was always there for me whether it was to jus tpick me up and hang out or help me with laundry she was always there.  A week after her funeral I was praying before I went to bed and I was asking God for strength to handle problems I was going through and also to handle the grieving of Joy passing and I swear I heard a voice say to me "Craig it will be ok" and I don't know if I wanted it to but it sounded like Joi and after that I felt better.


As a Christian man I know it's not my place to understand God's plan or the reason he does things the way he does, but I struggle with wondering why.  I just pray for the families of Rachel Wurster especially her beautiful daughter and of course the family of Joi Warren both of these families lost amazing people.

RIH Rachel Wurster and RIH Joi Warren

R&B Slow Jam of the day

Here is a song by one of my favorite artists!!

Musiq - Love

Day 26 - Family Picture

Day 26 is a family picture so I will upload all the pics I have of my family

My Mom, Me, and My Grandmother (Dad's mom).  These 2 are so influential in where I am today, and I love them so much!!

me and my dad

 

 

My 2 little brothers and little sister!

My Beautiful grandmother (Mom's mother) in Tennessee

My Grandfather (Mom's Dad) in Tennessee

I also have 2 other brothers, but I don't have pics with them.  I also have a plethora of Aunts and Uncles who mean the world to me and have been there for me through good and bad times!! I have cousins who I would do anything for and I hope they know that. And of course all my brothers from the SQUAD!!!

And last but most certainly not least the love of my life Adriane!!!