Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Saturday, March 4, 2006

WRITE OR WRONG

It has been a very busy week. I didn’t feel like writing as much because I spent the week in a fix-the-team mode. One might say, well, "I didn’t know it was broken". My answer would be something to the effect that I always am trying to ‘fix’ the team, and it doesn’t matter if we win or if we lose. I will say that I am tired of winning a game, getting one day or whatever to enjoy it, then losing a game and have a week or a year for it to sit there and fester. I want this trend to change right now!

HOLD THAT TIGER

I am about to get on the bus to go to Colorado College. I know little about them, and I don’t care. I’m sick of game plans and scouting reports. I am going to get back to being the coach I am, which is the one who does not prepare for the other team as much as he prepares his own team to play a game against anyone, not just one someone in particular. I don’t care what YOU do. I care what WE do.

WE’RE GOING TO DISNEYLAND

I made our schedule this year a long time ago. As soon as the coach at UCSB, Mike Allan, had a few days to celebrate his national championship last May, I was pathetically on the phone begging him for an early season game with the Gauchos in ‘06. He was gracious enough to schedule us way back then. I wanted our schedule to be challenging and unique. One out of two isn’t bad. Certain coaches followed my ‘lead’ and copied our West Coast schedule so that now everyone can get comfortable and compare their little scores of all the different games. Oh well, I guess it all means that if we play Michigan it will be a tie. I can’t wait to see if that is true. Since they chose not to play us we will have to see them in Dallas if at all.

BOWLING FOR DOLLARS BY GEORGE

Most people have little children that like cars to play with, or they stay close to a doll or blanket. Some two year-olds have binkies to suck on monotonously or they even suck fingers and or thumbs. Me, I have one that is totally addicted to two yellow plastic bowling pins that he sees as ninja fighting tools. I lay them next to him when he sleeps, and then I practically wake him up because I am laughing so hard at the sight. If they are not around he is almost beside himself. They have names, Yellow (both are yellow).

I used to bowl in leagues when I was a kid and I had a yellow bowling shirt that said hugely on the back and in script writing "Flip Naumburg Santa Fe, New Mexico". I’d give my kingdom to have that one back. I think I gave the shirt in question away to an old girlfriend back in the Hippie day, and as I recall it went very well without the bra.

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