Long Day

I'm approaching my fourth and FINAL season of college football and I'm feeling the pressure build. We had a team meeting today to talk about our goals for the off season, our goals for next season, and all the other important things on the laundry list.

I didn't catch a word of it though to be honest. I was too busy elsewhere in my mind. I mean it was hard to take in the fact that that was my last "off-season" meeting. I couldn't help to think that come this time next year, I will have officially completed my campaign as a Mount Saint Joseph Lion. The jersey with #99 will no longer belong to me. There will be no "better luck next year" for me. There will only be the reality that my football career is merely a memory. Something for the record books, maybe. Or maybe nothing more than just old grid iron tales for my kids and grandkids to listen to so that they can look at me say "yeah right" or " not again!" to. Either way it will be over.

I'm not complaining or mourning about what has yet to come, just coming to a realization. This realization is giving me time to think back on my earliest years of football and ask myself "What have I learned?" To ask myself, "What would I do now that I didn't do then?", and still have time to act on it and do those things. Here comes my last hurrah, a curtain call to what I would say has been a pretty nice college career so far. I'm motivated, inspired, and ready to go out with a bang. It's not how you start, it's how you finish, and I have no other plans than to finish strong.