Larry Salley

@MrMaxPrice @coachFMartin True story: during Covid, when we had to rethink everything, my CFO asked “describe our ticketing system.” I said, “I have no idea. I give Mrs. Claudia a schedule, and money is in the safe after. It’s been that way since 1980.”

@CoachLarrySal @coachFMartin 😂😂 Mrs. Claudia sounds amazing

College coaches and pro scouts: you will be charged by the ticket taker. That’s their job; they’re the ticket taker. If your org cannot afford the HS ⚾️ ticket cost, it might be time for a conversation with the higher ups.

@MrMaxPrice @coachFMartin An addendum—I tried to refund him, and Coach said, “it’s for the kids, don’t worry about it.”

@MrMaxPrice The school where I was AD had the best ticket taker in history. Mrs. Claudia did the job when I was in middle school. When she charged $20 to @coachFMartin for a tourney, I said, “Claudia, he’s the head coach at USC!” She smiled and replied, “and he didn’t have a ticket.”

@VinnysCorner1 Dale Murphy

Without saying your age…. Who was the best player on your favorite MLB team when you started watching baseball? I’ll start…. Don Mattingly

@anymanfitness Kid I “coached” in HS became a SEAL officer. He coached for us when I was AD, and when I could get 20 good pull-ups. One day I asked, “how many could you do back when you were active?” He said 35-40, but never w/o at least a 25-lb plate. Humbling, for sure!

How many push-ups (all the way down and up, zero cheating) do you think the average guy can do? Not gym rat. AVERAGE guy. If I had to guess, I would set the over/under at 8.5. Maybe lower.

@FixingEducation 32 years. Teaching? Still about 7-8. But I only get to actually teach about 25% of the time. So give me a 2.

For research purposes: How many years have you been teaching? And on a scale of 1–10 (1 = strongly dislike, 10 = love), how much do you enjoy it? ⬇️ Comment below

BTW, the night of my senior prom was the lower state track meet, and I anchored the mile relay. So I’m the last guy in the last event, 2 hours away. Ran a PR, drove home, skipped dinner, made the dance. Been married to my date 35 years.

There’s a big conversation right now about kids missing a game for prom. Worth noting: it was a PLAYOFF game, so the school/coach didn’t schedule it on prom night, and there were consequences to the whole team based on its outcome. That’s a no-brainer. You play .

@collinsworth55 However, it does benefit the boy. And the school/program. In AAU, you play for yourself. In HS, you play for your team/school. And your AAU team won’t have reunions. At your 30th HS reunion you’ll still sit with the guys you rode the bus with.

@CoachLarrySal Exactly. He benefits football Coaches for their boys to go play basketball. It doesn’t benefit basketball coaches for their boys to go play football in high school

I’m pro kids playing lots of sports but football is the sport where playing multiple sports helps the most. Football isn’t a skilled sport. It’s more about being an athlete and strong. Football players playing basketball helps them. Basketball players playing football does not.

@LKWChargerAD Your opponent who hires “stipend only” coaches who are pros will usually beat your 8th grade math guy who loves the game and believes in educating the whole student. I’d prefer the old world of the true teacher/coach, but for the most part that has changed.

@LKWChargerAD If you go to the National AD Conference every year, there will be multiple sessions on this. And the cumulative takeaway is “you’re not alone.” And to be fair, unless you hire with coaching as a primary focus, you’ll not often like the results you get making a teacher fake it.

@GamecockBourbon @BobbyWilson1004 Yeah, like I said, I’m a teacher. And my grandfather voted for Strom as a “Dixiecrat” in 1948. It was just funny that the only two adults in the room shared the 2 oldest senators in history.

Although I love the banter, the “not even close” is a not even close to being right, unless we are wholly talking about in a row. Thurmond was a: -state Senator for 5 years (then stormed the beaches of Normandy) rising to rank of Major General -Governor for 4 years after WWII -US Senator for 47 years until the day he died at 100 years old -a President pro tempore of the US Senate for 6 months at 98 years old -President pro tempore emeritus until the day he died for 3 years That’s a lot.

Not to be cold hearted, but why would anyone remain in political office until he literally died at 80? And why the hell do we not have term limits with some type of max age limit?

@GamecockBourbon @BobbyWilson1004 I was teaching middle school civics (in Florida) and talking about incumbents being re-elected at 95% rates. Since I’m from SC, I referenced old Strom. There was another teacher in the room who said “that’s nothing.” She was from WV (Byrd).

@BobbyWilson1004 Strom Thurmond would like a word 😂

@LarryBirdDaily Bird. Can’t be Jordan, he never saw a game 7.

Who’s taking the last swing for the Win?

@hpenatzer In grad school in the late 80s, I made the mistake of taking European Historiography and Directed Readings in Medieval History the same semester. Wound up being about 1000 tough pages a week, plus 2 papers. Pulled all-nighters two nights a week all term… but I was much younger

I was in a course that assigned 1200-1500 pages of reading a week. I tried to do all of the reading each week, often failing but coming close. It was all important. I learned more in that class than possibly any other I’ve taken. Profs in general aren’t assigning enough.

@JeffBarnes52 It’s worth noting that most people won’t have any institutional memory. The AD who “doesnt treat team X fairly” may have brought that program back from the dead while your child was in middle school, or started it on a shoestring. POV matters.

As an AD, no matter how hard you work to create equality across all sports, there will always be someone who believes you care more about another sport than theirs. The reality is that supporting every program matters, even when the perception does not always match the work being done.

@BamaBass Seriously, the best part of this is the 187.5. Here’s some dude actually NOT lying about his bench, paying for a pair of 1.25’s so he can keep getting better (never been to a gym that had any, mine live in my bag). I swear, EVERY guy rounds up bench and rounds down his mile.

I always workout alone, just me and my music. Last night I was getting my bench press in. So after the first set at 187.5lbs I almost failed the last rep. Some folks were leaving the gym, when I re-racked the bar I looked over and they gave me props for the set. I know it’s not a big weight but a stranger giving me congrats felt really good! It helped on the 2nd set but the last set did me in lol. I only got three reps in. I’m getting stronger but bench is still my weaker lift. Gotta keep on keeping on! 😤💪🏻🔥

@flowidealism So true. A good friend of mine who taught AP computer was just sure that kids didn’t even need grades if they were taught well enough. But 100% of his students fought for slots in his program. Teams I coached were like that, too. US History, not so much.

Picture a guitar class where half the students actively don't want to be there. They hate guitar. They resent being forced to hold this instrument. They're counting the minutes until they can leave. Would that class work? Obviously not. The resentful students would make it miserable for everyone. But we think this dynamic works for math? For history? For science? If half the class is angry and resistant and checked out, the learning environment is poisoned for everyone. Forcing people who don't want to be there destroys the experience for people who do.

@stevemagness It’s also a truism in HS track (especially small/private schools) that one leg of your 4x400 is always an 800/mile guy who just happens to be faster than most sprinters (along with your best 400 and 400h kid, and a 200 guy who hates your guts for making him run it).

@stevemagness So true. The US record holder at the mile, Alan Webb, ran sub-11 for 100m and 47 for 400. Which means that at over 95% of high schools he’d be a top sprinter. Had he run for me he’d have scored 40 points a week and never once done a distance workout.

The general public doesn't understand how fast most distance runners are A high level 1500m runner can out sprint all but a few skill position players on a typical HS football team Distance runners don't have elite speed But they have more than the majority of other athletes