Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Thursday, October 7, 2004

CSU INVITATIONAL

Next up is our fall tournament at CSU this Saturday. We will play a Men’s Club team (Genisis), the D.U. Club team, and the big finale at 4:15 will be C.U. vs. CSU. We (CSU lax) will also enter a second (Underdawg) team that will play three games for the day as well. In all, eight teams will play.

KNOW THE TRUTH (I am old) AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE (Being old beats the alternative)

After the games I will zip down to Colorado Springs for a brief snippet of my 30th Colorado College reunion.

BRING IT ON

I am really excited for this set of games. I want the chance to see how far we have progressed since September 18 when we played the Alumni. We went into that game with no identity whatsoever, and our weaknesses were readily exposed on that day by a team that knew how we played much better than we ourselves did. I had felt trepidation as that day approached, where now I feel enthusiastic anticipation. I think a team character is emerging, evolving from the solid core group of personalities we have amassed.

We are fun to watch at times. The way we move both with and without the ball is coming along nicely.

THIS AIN’T PERRY MASON, BUT WE MUST HAVE GOOD DEFENSE

Our defense as a whole tends to think too much right now. Better now than later I suppose, because they ALL must definitely understand our team defense concepts. At the same time, you can see the veiled face of true trust beginning to reveal itself a little more each day. My current equation: Trust + Communication = Good Defense.

BRONTOSAURUS BURGERS

I have spent quite a bit of time lately with my 4.75 year-old, Jordan, and my 1.25 year-old George. Jordan says he doesn’t want any part of learning to read. In his mind it would seem that reading somehow signals the end of innocence. His Peter Pan theory is one that says the act of reading automatically brings about responsibility, and he doesn’t want to ever grow up. Yet, he knows all the names of dinosaurs, for example, and far more than I do. I hate to admit it, but pretty much everything I know about dinosaurs I learned from watching the Flintstones on television as a boy, and not from the Paleontology courses I took while I was a college geology student. My guess is that once Jordan learns to read he will change his tune about literacy.

JUST A PRIVATE CONVERSATION

George and I communicate pretty well already, but Jordan helps take it all to a new level. George says certain things that I get. Samples would be "AWAH" (thirsty, as in agua), "ADAH" (Ada, his mama), and "POHPOH" (diaper change time). Then there is all this other ABADABBAGOO stuff that I don’t get at all. So, I just ask Jordan what George has said, and then he translates, like a regular tri-linguist. Jordan has English down cold, speaks excellent Spanish, and now this, Abba talk translator. I am so proud. Perhaps the most amusing part of this is that I totally believe that Jordan knows exactly what George is in fact saying. After all, it hasn’t been all that long since he spoke a lot of Abba talk himself.

COOKED ON PHONICS

Yes, I do realize that I gave both children almost identical names. However, believe it or not, I didn’t get it at the time. Their names came from completely different places. It is merely coincidence that landed them in such close phonic proximity. I like to think of it as an honest, dumb mistake.

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