Collin McCrary

Husband, Dad, master of Dash the Dachshund, staff member of Muffin The Cat.

[Troy Men's Golf @TroyTrojansMG]

𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙉𝙀

Thomas Crane is headed to the Southern Amateur 🔥

[Collin McCrary @CollinMcC64]

@acaseofthegolf1 Ping gonna sell a lot of those white headed mallet putters next week

[Collin McCrary @CollinMcC64]

@USGA @JJSpaun @padraig_h @GolfIreland_ @UGAGolf @remax @StateFarm Y’all forgot Hamilton Coleman!

[Paul B. Hurst @GreensPro]

What Most Golfers Don't Understand About Golf Course Maintenance.

Part #3 - Labor

60% Budget = Labor
12-18 F/T + P/T per 18 Holes
$121K Avg Super Salary (GCSAA)
$81K Avg Super Salary (https://t.co/CeV6BmOi6Y)
$62K Asst.
$68K Equip Mgrs.
$24/Hr Staff

Greens Fees and Dues ⬆️

[North Alabama Golf @UNAgolf]

We would like to welcome our next head coach, Matt Terry!

[Lance Ringler @GolfweekRingler]

Matt Terry is leaving his position as head coach at Louisiana Tech University and will be named the new coach at North Alabama. Terry has been at La Tech since 2017.

He replaces Austin Phillips, who was name head coach at Old Dominion last month

[The Cajun Dude @thecajundude]

Absolute madhouse

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LOL

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

For 8 years, people at Morgan Stanley called Rick Rescorla paranoid.

Then September 11th proved he was right.

Rick was a decorated Vietnam veteran who became Head of Security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center.

In 1990, he walked through the underground parking garage and quietly warned:

“Someone could park a truck bomb here and bring this whole place down.”

Executives dismissed the concern as excessive.

Then came February 26, 1993.

A truck bomb exploded in the World Trade Center parking garage almost exactly where Rick predicted.

Six people died.
Over 1,000 were injured.

The evacuation was chaos.

Rick watched terrified employees stumble through smoke-filled stairwells for hours with no real preparation.

Afterward, he made a decision.

Morgan Stanley employees would practice evacuation drills every three months.

All 2,700 of them.

No exceptions.

People hated it.

The company occupied floors 44 through 74 of the South Tower.

That’s a very long walk down when you have meetings, deadlines, and places to be.

Employees complained constantly.

“He’s obsessed.”
“This is unnecessary.”
“He’s paranoid.”

Rick didn’t care.

He timed every evacuation.
Studied bottlenecks.
Adjusted routes.
Ran the drills again.

And during the drills, he sang old military songs to keep people calm while they descended the stairwells.

For 8 years, people rolled their eyes at him.

Then came September 11, 2001.

8:46 a.m.

The North Tower was hit.

An announcement in the South Tower told people to remain at their desks because the building was secure.

Rick ignored it.

He grabbed a bullhorn and ordered:

“Everyone out. Now.”

Then he personally directed employees through the stairwells floor by floor.

And he sang.

The same songs people once mocked during drills suddenly became the sound keeping frightened people calm as they escaped.

At 9:03 a.m., the South Tower was struck.

Rick was still inside helping people evacuate.

His coworkers begged him to leave.

He refused.

“As soon as everyone’s out.”

By 9:45 a.m., nearly all 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees had escaped safely.

Rick could have saved himself.

Instead, he turned around and went back up.

Searching for anyone left behind.

Before the tower collapsed, he called his wife one final time.

“If something happens to me, I want you to know you made my life.”

At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed with Rick still inside.

Final numbers:

Morgan Stanley employees inside that morning:
~2,700

Survived:
~2,687

Most of the 13 lost were in the direct impact zone where no evacuation could have reached them in time.

Rick Rescorla died alongside members of his security team while trying to save others.

But here’s the important part:

Rick didn’t save those people on September 11th.

He saved them for 8 years before it happened.

He saved them every time he forced another evacuation drill.
Every time people mocked him.
Every time he prepared anyway.

The coworkers who thought he was paranoid went home to their families because one man refused to stop taking danger seriously.

Sometimes preparation looks ridiculous until the day it looks like survival.

And sometimes the people everyone dismisses are the only ones truly paying attention.

Rick Rescorla died in the stairwell doing what he had trained for nearly a decade.

And thousands of ordinary lives continued because he never stopped preparing for the day nobody believed would come.

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

Game Above is a company that has changed EMU golf forever.

The company has given nearly $20 million to the program, they now have amazing facilities and it’s paying off. What a run.

Also the company sponsors men and women chasing the PGA and LPGA tours. Pretty awesome

[Larry in Missouri @LarryInMissouri]

Happy Birthday @CoachLuellenAU out of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Left an indelible, multi-generational legacy in Oklahoma golf as a dominant amateur player, an NCAA individual champion, an @LPGA Tour professional, and an elite collegiate coach—her legacy is intimately tied to her mother, Dale McNamara, the legendary founder and coach of the @utulsa women’s golf program—Inducted into the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame in 2019 ( with this honor, Melissa and her mother became the first mother-daughter duo to be inducted into the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame / Dale was inducted in 2006); She continues her elite coaching career as the head coach for @AuburnWGolf ; 60 Today….

[Troy Men's Golf @TroyTrojansMG]

Three States ... Three State Am Qualifiers

⚔️ Lawton Emblom - Alabama
⚔️ Lee Poppell - Florida
⚔️ Grant Yerger - Texas

[Collin McCrary @CollinMcC64]

@jonathanrwall @SuperStrokeGolf Do you think most players would be better off getting fitted for irons on a range vs a simulator? Do you think the sole grinds on all irons should depend on what type of fairways mostly played? Not just wedges?

[Collin McCrary @CollinMcC64]

@RustyMansell_ Sister’s, Troy, Alabama

[Troy Men's Golf @TroyTrojansMG]

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Congrats to Pablo Gracia on earning All-Sun Belt Third Team honors!

#SharpenTheSword | #OneTROY

[Troy Men's Golf @TroyTrojansMG]

Moving on …

Lee Poppell has clinched a spot in the Final Qualifying event for the U.S. Open Championship

[Collin McCrary @CollinMcC64]

@TroyTrojansMG Happy Birthday Grant!

[Collin McCrary @CollinMcC64]

@KipHenley That vehicle is kicking your butt 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[Collin McCrary @CollinMcC64]

@ronlee1975 My son and I took the golf cart with clubs on the back and went to the Carters drive thru & got Chicken & gizzards. People looked at us like we were from out of space. Went back to RCC & played the back 9.