Resolutions are made to be broken. Maybe that’s why it isn’t my style to make New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps it’s the fear of failure. I don’t know. But I have a hunch that a lot of coaches, athletes and administrators treat resolutions the same way I do.
The college bowl season may give Excedrin headaches to many pundits, but not for my agent I.M. Slick.
It’s not that Slick believes the Bowl Championship Series, aka BCS, is a
great method for determining a national champion in football, but he
believes there’s nothing that contributes more to college football
staying in the news than the BCS.
’Tis the season to be cynical—steroid use by athletes, win-at-all-cost coaches, unethical officials, unruly fans, out-of-sight salaries paid to professional athletes and college and professional coaches, to name just a few.
Or ’tis the season to remember that sports and athletic competition can actually heal and bring people closer together.
Watching Tabor College football this fall was deja vu all over again.
Tabor’s football history has far more lows than highs. And while the past four to five years ranked anywhere from good to great to amazing, this year came closer to resembling the norm.
