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This was the text message I received from my running back coach (Chad Scott) last week "Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them." This has been on my mind constantly this week. Am I seizing everyday occasions and making them into extraordinary opportunities, or am I just waiting for life to give me a handout? I think about things like this often. Its crazy how your perspective can change when you view everyday common occasions as opportunities. "Do you wanna be good, or do you wanna be great?" This is the question that Coach Scott asks me every day before practice. It’s really a gut check question every time he asks me. The more I think about that question, the more I take that question off the football field and into other aspects of my life. When you really think about it, its hard to be great at something in your life when your ok with being sub-par in another area.

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Nice read. Now lets take this advice and win some football games!

"You've got to find your inner pirate" - Mike Leach
"We started too late" - Neal Brown

by Raider1992 on Oct 26, 2010 9:45 AM CDT reply actions  

Great inspirational quote ...

I am glad that the staff is challenging these men in these ways … it will pay off outside of football too.

by Arizona Raider on Oct 26, 2010 9:57 AM CDT reply actions  

Amazing, amazing post

Amazingly amazing. I’m amazed.

by Pancho on Oct 26, 2010 2:17 PM CDT reply actions  

I feel for these kids in white, red, and sometimes black.

it seems to me that they have been so manipulated as to be totally disfunctional. that’s not to say that I don’t think that Batch is not a truthful guy, an amazing football player, and a kid with a great heart,, but it is to say that I think the present coaching staff is so full of warmth, hugs, and fuzzy goodness, that they have taken the fight out of our once proud pirates of the plains. just sayin.
And the only reason I say this is the performance we have had to witness so far this season. there is no comeback in these kids.

"As we continue to merely "talk about championships""

by blackbeard on Oct 26, 2010 2:49 PM CDT reply actions  

I hear what you saying blackbeard. I think this locker room has gone soft. They need a guest visit from Jimmy Johnson.

"You've got to find your inner pirate" - Mike Leach
"We started too late" - Neal Brown

by Raider1992 on Oct 26, 2010 2:52 PM CDT up reply actions  

Ditka

"As we continue to merely "talk about championships""

by blackbeard on Oct 26, 2010 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions  

Ditka or Hurrican Ditka?

"A job well done is better than a job well said."

by I bleed Red and Black on Oct 26, 2010 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions  

I guess I don’t understand why they have to be brainwashed. What motivates one person may not motivate another. Leach certainly had his methods, but because Batch’s position coach asks him if he wants to be great or just good, it makes the players and coaches soft? I go back to the thought that what choice do these kids have? What are their options? Do they stand up and tell the coaches to go screw themselves, at which point the staff will terminate their scholarship and will most likely end up playing for a team like Sam Houston, if they’re lucky? Batch signed up to write for the year and I for one appreciate his insight. And if he believes in this staff, that doesn’t make his opinion about believing in the staff any more wrong or right that your opinion that the staff stinks and have sapped the life out of this team. I still go back to oldschoolraider and BTech sitting down with some of that staff and it appears that they think they’re working their asses off to get this thing better, both guys were very much not on board with the staff prior to the weekend and I think they’ve changed their minds. It’s still their opinions and they’re no more right or wrong than you are.

Go Raiders . . .
Double-T Nation

by Seth C on Oct 27, 2010 6:36 AM CDT up reply actions  

++ Plus !

Well said, Seth.

as for me and my house, we chose the Lord.

by TallMike on Oct 27, 2010 9:15 AM CDT up reply actions  

Amazing, amazing comments.

Amazed by all of your amazing, amazing comments.

by Pancho on Oct 26, 2010 2:57 PM CDT reply actions  

I’m amazed at how amazed everybody is :)

"You've got to find your inner pirate" - Mike Leach
"We started too late" - Neal Brown

by Raider1992 on Oct 26, 2010 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions  

Maybe I'm Amazed

Or maybe not. Just not in a Paul McCartney mood today.

by mbrown603 on Oct 26, 2010 4:31 PM CDT up reply actions  

Yeah it's amazing!

How about Aerosmith?

¡Viva los Matadores!

by jwhitettu on Oct 26, 2010 4:52 PM CDT reply actions  

that in a blink of an eye you finally see the light

Gibba gabba gibba gabba dooba dah!

" Answers --Become Resources."
Without Questions, There are limited Resources...

by KWashburn on Oct 28, 2010 1:58 AM CDT up reply actions  

Well...

Batch is a deep thinker for a young guy. I admire him for it-and think he will make something of himself in life (and he has a sense of humor). As far as the others, it may be they’re starting to come around to fighting to save their season as it seemed in the 2nd half at CU.

BTW, Baron, if you have old chicken bones left over after a “late night run” it’s good to put them in a bag and keep them in the freezer until trash night if you want to keep your place from smelling like a restaurant dumpster. Take from my hard-won experience…

by djn on Oct 27, 2010 12:03 AM CDT reply actions  

Chicken bones?

Or you could call them the remains of “The Miracle of the Golden Bird!”

by djn on Oct 27, 2010 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions  

“I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken toniigghhtttt!”

by djn on Oct 30, 2010 1:37 AM CDT reply actions  

Mmmmm...

Reading this blog again makes me want to go get some wings to dine on tonight. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

Actually, the advice from Baron’s coach is pretty good. Too bad all the coaches don’t seem to have their “Zen” going well enough to get this team out of the ditch.

by djn on Nov 1, 2010 10:27 PM CDT reply actions  

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