Parson Caleb

Pastor of the fine folks at New Bethesda Baptist. *Helping others find resilient faith* *Connecting the Bible to everyday life* @sebts grad #GoDawgs #Braves

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Youth Update July 8, 2026 - https://t.co/adUPkGdhql

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Youth Update June 24th, 2026 - https://t.co/p8UdeW7oxN

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

The Dusty May departure is just the latest event in what I have increasingly come to view as college sports’ spring/summer of disenchantment.

In the early days of portal/NIL/lawsuits against the NCAA, the on-field product wasn’t being threatened as much. In the last ~6 months we’ve had…

- The Sorsby situation underscoring a lack of rules/enforcement that can threaten the integrity of the games
- Numerous high profile cases of tampering that apparently can’t be punished
- Eligibility lawsuits going from involving older players like Trinidad Chambliss into involving players who have been drafted into pro sports
- Conferences filled with teams who spent decades engaging in horrible fiscal management trying to force a CFP expansion fans don’t want
- The current CFP selection committee’s inability to weigh schedule strength leading to the cancellation of marquee out of conference games
- Increasing apathy towards recruiting in all sports
- The broken promises of the House Settlement coming into full view, making both fans and coaches feel confused about what the rules actually are
- Coaches leaving during a playoff run because checks promising to fund their own accounts and their future rosters matter more than the opportunity to do something special in the moment

Some of these things speak to the amount of money at stake and the predictable outcome of everyone involved looking to get what they can while they can.

But some of these issues are now threatening the basic definition of a sport (everyone playing their hardest under the same set of rules with players of the same age/eligibility qualifications). If you don’t have baselines then the games don’t have the same meaning.

In the face of all of it, it’s understandable why a young national title winning coach like May is choosing to leave for the NBA instead of pursuing a potential dynasty.

May leaving now instead of gearing up for a run at a repeat while waiting to see if Congress passes a bill speaks to a) how good the opportunity is and b) how bad the situation is in college basketball at the moment

In the broader spectrum, it took college sports 130 years to capture enough interest that fans began to follow player acquisition like a second sport. People are losing interest in the who, how and why that shapes their programs. More and more they’re only interested in the games, and there are forces threatening the amount of passion around certain parts of the in-season schedule.

Everything we know about sports says that it takes a long time to create generational bonds around them.

College sports is well past the point of needing to pull the ripcord and take actions to restore public trust/interest in the who, how and why, and that’s before we even talk about the issues threatening the integrity of the games themselves.

Eventually, purgatory becomes permanent if the people in charge don’t pick a path that leads elsewhere

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Youth Update June 17th, 2026 - https://t.co/2H5jHQfs1f

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@garonnevik I’m envious

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@BradyJBush

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@Brent_Hobbs I don’t participate anymore, but I would like one opportunity to say this into a microphone. Respectfully.

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Youth Update-June 10, 2026 - https://t.co/TBietAMEhv

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1st Summer Event - https://t.co/5QVwS0oRil

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NBBC Youth-June 3rd Update - https://t.co/dSveqMm1kd

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@jontweetssports

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"Believe in Jesus and trust him and you shall never be made ashamed of your confidence."

— Charles Spurgeon

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@racheljwelcher

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NBBC Youth-May 27th Update - https://t.co/4L2bRyTqd7

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“The gospel has saved me. I know it will save you if you receive it.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I’ve never pastored a church. Couldn’t pay me a jillion dollars to. Never been ordained. Have no desire to. The only paid staff position I’ve ever held in a church was as an aerobics teacher in our church gym. But how in heaven’s name a woman discussing a sermon on a podcast could be objectionable to some is beyond me and what I believe to be beyond scripture. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, good. Stay sane. If you do, I’ve lived a long time and this has been my observation:

Extremism, whether in conservatism or liberalism, whether in politics or religion, is never satisfied. It will always inch a little bit further. It’s a constant test of the purists.

[Parson Caleb @calebbittler]

So now Al is saying women can’t even speak on podcasts that offer commentary and application on sermons? That group will never be satisfied. There will always be a threat to the SBC status quo. I just don’t have any interest in it anymore.

[ChurchLeaders.com @ChurchLead]

Albert Mohler says a woman answering follow-up questions about sermons on a church podcast is functioning as a pastor, title or not. He's now proposing a constitutional amendment at the SBC annual meeting to make that standard official.
https://t.co/aoojkIAcHY

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This 💯

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

There is a wave of people looking at college football the exact wrong way

They know it is America’s 2nd most watched sport and assume it needs to become more like #1

They’re like NASCAR execs who chased casual fans by taking races away from their diehard core in the Southeast

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NBBC Youth-May 20th Update - https://t.co/4nX4s5uaXa

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NBBC Youth-May 13th Update - https://t.co/f2FboSMHwH