You know what day it is? It is game day that’s what day it is! Grasshopper 4 here, Hopper #5 had a great idea of hi-jacking the divine one’s blog while he is indisposed for a while. No worries he will be back writing his wisdom in no time.
But it is game day, the high school team I coach has their first scrimmage, tomorrow night the Packers have their 2nd preseason game, highlights of football are starting to show up on ESPN and we all get to bask in the warm glow that is the football game.
The divine one played football in high school, from all the stories he tells apparently they were pretty good, he has written about that before. I also played high school football and we were not very good. Oh every season the hope was that we had the talent to compete but we struggled on the talent, although I wasn’t holding that bell curve down. Just listen to my stories of how good I was.
There is a coach in Fond du lac by the name of Bob Hyland who coaches the Fond Du Lac Springs football team. He is the winningest coach in Wisconsin history, as of this writing it is 387 wins and 12 state titles, most coaches’ dream of 1 title but Bob has 12, that is just being greedy.
I got to play against his teams in high school and their success stemmed from one thing, they were a simple team. They didn’t do anything fancy on offense but boy they would steam roll you. They didn’t do anything fancy on defense but you would swear they were playing with 12 players instead of 11.
As I put in the years coaching kids what I have learned is that being simple wins more times than being complicated. Simple does not mean easy, in fact I believe that simple is the hardest thing anyone can do. Bob’s teams were simple and they worked extremely hard to be that way. 387 wins and 12 titles later helps that case. Funny how life imitates sports, live a simple life and success and happiness will follow.
So go forth and be simple, I believe the Divine One would approve.