Louis Waller

Husband, Father, Coach, & Mentor

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

I have a lot of opinions and thoughts to share, and I figured this would be a good way to get them out there.

I'm just a regular person, but I have some pretty strong opinions on various topics. I hope you find my musings entertaining and thought-provoking. Let's see where this goes!

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

Hospital administrator doesn’t just balance the books. If she’s spent 10+ years in the OR, attends surgical planning, reviews outcomes, and is responsible for the entire hospital’s performance, she’s allowed to ask the surgeon a question. But thanks for accidentally making my point.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@furious_cs @ShadeSalvo Where’s your proof she’s telling the coach what to do. She’s been doing this for a long time. Being a student of the game. Trying to learn. She also spends time in the film room. At the end of the day—it’s her freaking team and she can’t do anything she likes.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@SportNState And has been doing this for over 10 years. Yeah - on the sidelines, with a headset - also in the film room. A lot more than you arm-chair QBs.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

Y’all can miss me with all the feigned outrage over this. She is responsible for an organization worth $8 billion. That has $626 million in revenues and $81 million in operating income that is determined by the outcome on that field. She has every right to question whoever in that organization she feels like.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

Y’all can miss me with all the feigned outrage over this. She is responsible for an organization worth $8 billion. That has $626 million in revenues and $81 million in operating income that is determined by the outcome on that field. She has every right to question whoever in that organization she feels like.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@ParkerThune @GeorgeStoia The Navy SEALs have a saying, “Two is one, and one is none.” If its mission critical there has to be redundancy. Our coaching staff doesn’t have this mentality at the QB position. They have failed the team.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@travisdavidson Navy SEALs have a saying, “Two is one, one is none.” In other words if it’s mission critical, have a backup. If our coaching staff doesn’t have this mentality at every position then they have failed the team.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@TMZ

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@NewsOn6 https://t.co/hXBGqLs4yw - fixed it for you 😊

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@Globalstats11 Top 5 highest-paid athletes of all time (inflation-adjusted career earnings):
1Michael Jordan – $4.5 billion
2Tiger Woods – $2.88 billion
3Cristiano Ronaldo – $2.52 billion
4LeBron James – $2.03 billion
5Lionel Messi – $1.99 billion

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

🦋

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

At the 1972 Munich Olympics, a 15-year-old American swimmer won three gold medals and set two world records.

Almost nobody remembers her name.

The cameras were pointed somewhere else.

The story of Munich is usually told in two parts.

First, there was the dominance of Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals and became the face of the Games.

Then there was the tragedy of the Munich Massacre, when eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered by terrorists from Black September.

Those two stories became the history of Munich.

Everything else disappeared into the background.

Including a teenage girl from Virginia named Melissa Belote.

She arrived in Germany as a high school sophomore.

No media entourage.

No endorsement deals.

No celebrity status.

Just a swimmer who had spent years staring at the black line at the bottom of a pool before sunrise.

In the 100-meter backstroke, she won gold and set an Olympic record.

In the 200-meter backstroke, she won gold and broke the world record.

In the 4×100-meter medley relay, she helped the United States win gold and set another world record.

Three events.

Three gold medals.

Two world records.

She was fifteen years old.

While reporters chased Spitz through the Olympic Village, Belote quietly climbed out of the same pool carrying world records.

Few cameras followed.

Few headlines appeared.

Then the Munich attack happened.

The Games stopped.

The world changed.

When competition resumed, celebration was gone. Athletes finished their events beneath a cloud of grief and shock.

Belote received her final gold medal in an arena struggling to find joy.

Then she packed her bags and went home.

No nationwide media tour.

No magazine covers.

No Hollywood offers.

She returned to Springfield, Virginia.

The next thing she had to worry about wasn't another Olympic final.

It was high school.

She walked back into class as a sophomore.

According to the stories told later, school didn't even excuse her from regular physical education requirements.

Just weeks after becoming a three-time Olympic champion, she was still expected to run laps like everyone else.

Today, her achievements remain in the record books:

🥇 100m Backstroke
🥇 200m Backstroke (World Record)
🥇 4×100m Medley Relay (World Record)

Three Olympic gold medals.

Won before she was old enough to drive.

The medals weigh exactly the same as everyone else's.

History just forgot to look at them.

Melissa Belote didn't merely compete in Munich.

She outswam the world while almost nobody was watching.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@CoachBobStoops Made a stop there as well! Peep the reflection. #BoomerSooner #oudna

[Josiah @josiahjdp]

The truth was, by the time Daniel came home smirking, I already knew more than he thought. At 4 : 17 that afternoon, his company’s HR director had accidentally called me while trying to reach him. After one awkward apology, I understood this wasn’t some romantic affair. It was a misconduct investigation. And Daniel hadn’t just slept with his boss.He had been fired alongside her.

I barely slept that night, but not for the reasons Daniel likely imagined.
He probably assumed I was upstairs crying into a pillow, devastated by the idea that he wanted someone else. The truth was colder than that. I lay awake doing calculations.

Mortgage balance.

Joint savings.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@FLOTUS His show generates ~ $70MM annually— Allstate, McDonalds, & Starbucks are three of the biggest sponsors. @FLOTUS should call them out for sponsoring hate.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@FLOTUS You really want him gone? Boycott his advertisers.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@gothburz Nice story bro! You don’t work for the government. Maybe numbers are factual, but your whole premise starts with a fictional story so who knows.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@FastbreakHoops5 It was a travel. The little toe tap, before the two steps, counts as a step. Incredibly astute call be the ref, but nonetheless a travel.

[Louis Waller @CoachLou2]

@BrettLawrence @pseudocrazy @CBSSportsCBB No — he didn’t do the right thing. You call timeout. You point out there’s only 10 seconds left. There’s no need to get the ball across half court. You hold and take the foul. Then you set the defense for after you shoot free throws - make or miss.