2. I'm no longer a year long consumer. The off-season has lost its fun, appeal. I see stuff on Twitter but for all practical purposes I fall out after championship game and come back week 0 or Labor Day whenever the games start.
College football is still my favorite sport. I watch games every Saturday. But the two biggest changes with the new world of college football...
1. It's no longer block off all day Saturday. I'm willing to miss a 'big game' to play golf or whatever since it's not do or die...
Prediction: We're going to find out pretty soon that some of these spring “injuries” were in fact holdouts because schools were missing payments to players.
Dan Hurley on the two personas every head coach must master:
The Jockey 🏇, and the Corner Man. 🥊
In practice — you are the jockey. You push. You challenge. You demand more than they think they have. You stretch them past comfort so execution becomes inevitable.
On game night — you become the corner man. You steady. You simplify. You remind them who they are. Confidence replaces correction.
Preparation is where you build them.
Performance is where you believe in them.
Some have said that my being attacked by both the “right” and the “left” is a sign I am teaching truth because truth is found in the middle between extremes. I appreciate the support, but that’s not accurate.
First, it's important to note everyone occupies SOME middle because there’s always someone to one side or the other on issues who thinks YOU have compromised. Nearly everyone is in a ‘middle’—the question is: which middle is the right one?
Second, Christians should never seek a middle ground for its own sake. The goal should be to take positions that do justice to the Biblical teaching, regardless of whether the world sees you—in its categories-- as an extremist or a moderate.
Third, often Christians look like they are taking a “Third Way,” not because they are moderates but because, in being biblical, they combine what the world considers extreme positions that normally cannot go together. The Bible’s view of humanity in the imago Dei is far more optimistic about human nature than Rousseau's, & yet its view of human sin is far more pessimistic than Hobbes'—both at once! It might be fair to call that a 3rd way between alternatives, but it is not a half-and-half middle way.
Fourth, when Christians formulated the doctrine of Christ’s person, was it a halfway between Docetism (Christ isn’t really human) and Ebionism (Christ isn’t really divine)? No, Jesus is not half God and half human but fully God and fully human. The biblical doctrine IS NOT a middle way. It “diagonalizes” the alternatives (C.Watkin). It “subversively fulfills” the alternatives (D.Strange) That is, it fully critiques both and yet fulfills the best aspirations of both at the same time, without merely combining them or borrowing from them. The biblical position is not somewhere on a spectrum between alternatives—it is off the spectrum yet acknowledges the concerns of all the positions.
5th, my main criticism of so many Christians on social media who attack from the “Right” or from the “Left" is that they unknowingly wed the faith with secular political ideologies. On the right, people make idols of individual freedom and of the market and demonize government. On the left, people make idols of sexual expression, racial identity, and the State, and demonize religion and love of country. Biblical faith sees all of these as good things, but relativizes them before God and his love and grace. All things were made good (Gen 1), all things are fallen (Gen 3)-yet God through Jesus is redeeming all things. For more 1) On social-cultural idols see R.Niebuhr, “The Christian Church in a Secular Age” 2) On personal-inner idols see D.Powlison, “Idols of the Heart and Vanity Fair” 3) For a deep dive on idolatry see M.Habertal and A.Margalit “Idolatry”.
@TMIEpiscopal is proud to announce the hiring of Lucas Peters as our next Athletic Coordinator & Head Football Coach. A proven championship leader with SPC success at Kinkaid, Coach Peters brings the vision and energy to lead TMI into this new era. #TMIAthletics
To all young CBs if you are playing COVER 2 and you have no FLAT threat continue to sink with your vertical!!! This is text book! Love to see great fundamentals rewarded.
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL RENDITIONS OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM YOU WILL EVER HEAR BY “THE WAR AND TREATY.”
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This was amazing.
https://t.co/R1PICM4LrU
All things new.
New year. New life. New ways.
“See, I am doing a new thing.” Isaiah 43:19
Grateful to gather with the CHARM family last night, welcoming the New Year with our focus on Christ and the work He has done.
Does the portal make building (and keeping) a roster like 2008 Utah much harder? It sure does! Could those early rounds be blowouts more often than not? Probably!
But that isn't the point. If you start saying games don't matter before they start, you wont like where it ends!
I think it’s pretty common opinion the college football playoff system and committee is very wonky and needs work…. But the home playoff games is incredible. That atmosphere and crowd sounds louddddddd
The full 2025 CHARM Annual Fundraising Breakfast highlight video is live! 🎥
Hope, worship, transformation—you don’t want to miss this.
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So grateful for our ministry event this past Saturday. The Chapel was filled to standing room only, a beautiful reminder of the hunger for community and hope. Thank you to everyone who served to make this day meaningful. Your faithfulness truly made an impact.
Isaiah 9:2-3, 6-7