Ryan Haskins

Husband. Christ follower. University of South Alabama DPT alum '17. Auburn University alum '14. Making the world a better place since 1992.

[Ryan Haskins @RyanHaskinsDPT]

@KySportsRadio I like your brand, keep it up!

[Nathan King @NathanKing247]

That 2017 Auburn team has to be sick this morning. Two-loss Auburn lost 28-7 to Georgia after crushing the Bulldogs in the regular season, and fell out of the playoff.

Two-loss Alabama lost 28-7 to Georgia after winning on the road in the regular season and makes it in.

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@YouHateBammer @AllAubarn Weird way to cope

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@aldotcomTide Congrats on your SEC title! Oh wait…

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@Greg_Byrne You’d make a great politician Greg. You do realize that all 3 of your losses came to conference opponents right? Not to mention your non-conference schedule was a joke this year. Stop playing the victim and realize your football team simply didn’t earn it this season.

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@PabloEscoburner Pretty clear why Aden Holloway left.

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@JFergusonAU Freeze needs to be gone. Regardless of his recruiting efforts, this is unacceptable and it’s week after week. No improvement on either side of the ball.

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@_JHokanson In other words, he hasn’t been locked in and giving his all to this point. It’s evident in the discipline and mistakes of this team that they are poorly coached. Freeze isn’t the answer, but I hope I’m wrong.

[Bryant @bwombat24]

🎯🎯🎯 Coach Leach (rest his solid) absolutely told us this would happen years ago

[Ryan Haskins @RyanHaskinsDPT]

#bamabias

[ACC Network @accnetwork]

"This is wrong, plain and simple."

The ACC Huddle crew did not hold back on the decision to leave Florida State out of the #CFBPlayoff.

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@PabloEscoburner Appalling

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

What is proper here, though?

It's quite clear from scripture that God allows suffering to achieve his purposes, which is mainly to bring us to him.

Given that we have freedom to choose and live in a world of temptations and distractions, suffering is sometimes the only way he can get our attention.

Maybe God could've made it impossible for us to choose foolish and destructive things, but then we'd be automatons, and incapable of love.

Maybe God could've put us in a world without temptations and distractions. But when there is freedom but nothing to choose, is that truly freedom? Would we possess hearts that long for the good?

So, God puts us in this world with both freedom and bad stuff, and tells us it's good to exercise our freedom to avoid the bad stuff. What are we going to do?

Anyone who is a parent can relate to this.

You can tell your children over and over to not do something foolish and destructive, but a lot of times they either don't care or they think they know more than you do.

You could maybe force your children not to do anything foolish and destructive, but that's imposing another kind of suffering, because you'd be a tyrant and a dictator and nothing you could do would produce a genuine heart-change in your children.

If you want your children to have the freedom to choose and to choose the good, then sometimes the only way to achieve that is to let them experience the painful consequences of 'going their own way.'

Some may never learn even from harsh experience. Or maybe they genuinely don't want the good. That's the price of freedom.

Many, however, will learn from the pain and will come back to seek comfort and wisdom from you.

This is exactly how we relate to our Heavenly Father.

We are assured biblically that no suffering is without purpose, and for those who seek God's kingdom, none of it is without recompense. God knows every tear we've shed, and I'm fully convinced that he experiences our pain in the same way we earthly parents experience our children's pain.

I'm fully convinced, btw, that one reason God wants us to have children is so that we can learn analogously about his relationship to us. "I've told my kid how this stupid thing he's doing is going to end, but he won't listen to me! Ohhh..."

[Ryan Haskins @RyanHaskinsDPT]

This is good.

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

A high profile conservative who espouses family values is revealed to be a jerk to his pregnant wife.

A high profile progressive who publicly worries about climate change has a mega-mansion and flies in private jets everywhere.

There are conservative, Christian leaders who cheat on their wives.

There are progressive leaders who step all over the little guy.

There are political activists who raise millions of dollars for a cause only to spend it on themselves.

The point?

If you're looking to politics and the virtue of other people to reinforce your morality, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

But it's not just our leaders. In a way, they're just symptoms of the bigger problem.

Which is that every one of us is a hypocrite in some way or other.

Every one of us falls short.

And while it's disappointing and annoying to see leaders, icons, and role models turn out to be the opposite of what they portray themselves to be, it doesn't get me down.

Why?

Because I look to one person, and one person alone, as the epitome of virtue and the embodiment of morality.

Y'all know who I'm talking about: Jesus Christ.

And the good news is, as terrible as we are, God still loves us, and he values us enough to involve us in his plans.

Moses and David were murderers, and God still put them in exalted positions.

Paul zealously persecuted Christians before he served God and became the #1 author of the New Testament.

The Apostles were all various degrees of miserably flawed, and look how God used them to spread the good news.

And God is using flawed but valuable you to do great things, too.

The lesson in all this – for me, anyway – is to temper admiration for other people with realism, to definitely not look to politicians or political activism to solve our problems, and to focus attention on the one thing that matters most, which is to obey Jesus' commandments to love God and love each other.

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@AdamWeil22 So I heard! https://t.co/kFgB1v300F

[SEC Mike @MichaelWBratton]

Drive chart for the start of the Alabama spring game:

Jalen Milroe — 3 and out
Ty Simpson — 3 and out
Jalen Milroe — 3 and out (first pass overthrew his WR by 10 yards)
Ty Simpson — 4 and out (1st down on short catch and run on first play)

Simpson and Milroe traded interceptions on consecutive plays just before halftime.

[FOX College Hoops @CBBonFOX]

Only a few left 👀

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@NPerkins96 Then Virginia double dribbled.

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@waynelmurrah13 @JoeGoodmanJr Well that really came out of left field. Can you find in my original tweet here where I ever mentioned a single player or that they should be punished? Pretty sure I was referring to Oats’ handling of the situation.

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@COOPERQBDAD2025 @JoeGoodmanJr So you’re saying an athlete should only be disciplined or suspended if they break the law? Man, so many athletes, myself included, should be outraged that they were ever disciplined for anything less!

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@COOPERQBDAD2025 @JoeGoodmanJr Wow, didn’t know you were the author of the article! So you believe that Oats and the Alabama athletic department handled the situation well? From the very beginning?

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@COOPERQBDAD2025 @JoeGoodmanJr Please, share your insight on the situation. Would love to hear it.

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@wwgrooms @BillyDawson132 @JoeGoodmanJr I’m not assuming either way on whether he read the text or not. All that is know is the time of receipt as you’ve stated. I think it’s wrong to throw the kid under the bus with how many unknowns surround the situation. Oates and the AD have to do better though.