Neyland Maxims

1. The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.

2. Play for and make the breaks, and when one comes your way SCORE.

3. If at first the game - or breaks - go against you, don't let up ... put on more steam.

4. Protect our kickers, our quarterback, our lead and our ball game.

5. Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle ... for this is the WINNING EDGE.

6. Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.

7. Carry the fight to our opponent and keep it there for 60 minutes.

"hear the pop"

I work with technology folks based outside Boston and they are a funny team.

A guy in Florida emailed a project team asking us to review a document for File X.

One of the guys in Boston responded saying:

2 things-
1. we're implementing File Y
2. try attaching the document

I ping the Boston guy saying I liked his snarky comment and he responded that Florida dude needed to hear the pop once in a while.

That being the sound you hear when you pull your head out of your ass.

Not abandoned

Still posting.  First post of 2010.

Richardson and Jackson dialogue

"Man, we need some stuff, let's steal it. Okay, where should we steal from.  I dunno.  Aight, how about the that crappy gas station right next to campus, you down? I'm in, let's roll. Dude you're still wearing UT gear, apparel they ONLY give athletes. Do you think you should change before we go? Nah man, wearing this shit just makes me run faster."

Slip

"They'll put their political survival and their political power being gained over anything else. They'll use anybody and throw anybody away in order to achieve it."

- Rush Limbaugh, validating Freud

Knowledge and Priorities

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important."
- Eugene McCarthy

What if the Right was Right?

Authentic and productive.

"Despite our verbal proclamations to the contrary, Americans (Christian or otherwise) have such a negative visceral association with the concept of socialism that we-thus far-have been unable to have an authentic, productive conversation about whether greed or compassion is the more moral (and productive) incentive for human beings engaged in the social experiment of the democratic nation-state."