Coach Pickett

Love my family, my wife, 3 boys, grandson, God, football and all things Carolina Blue! Kettle Run Business Teacher, Former HS FB Coach, UNC-CH ‘92, LU ‘19.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Lee Iacocca had everything. Then he lost it. Ford Motor Company. Thirty-two years of work. Countless promotions.

The creation of the Ford Mustang. A reputation as one of the most successful executives in America. Then it ended. Henry Ford II called him into his office and fired him.

No dramatic explanation. No public celebration of his achievements. Just out. The humiliation was enormous. Iacocca had spent decades helping build Ford into a powerhouse. Now he was unemployed. Many people assumed his career was over.

Then the phone rang. Chrysler wanted him. Most executives would have run the other direction. The company was collapsing. Losses exceeded $1 billion. Factories were shutting down.

Workers were losing jobs. Dealers were disappearing. Cash was running out. Some believed bankruptcy was only a matter of time. Lee Iacocca accepted anyway. When he arrived, the situation was worse than expected.

The company was drowning. Bills were piling up. Money was disappearing. Time was running out. Desperate situations require desperate decisions. Iacocca went to Washington.

He stood before Congress and asked for help. Critics attacked him. Some called Chrysler a lost cause. Others argued taxpayers should never help a private company.

The criticism was relentless. Still, he kept pushing. Eventually, the government approved loan guarantees. The conditions were harsh. Workers took cuts.

Executives took cuts. Iacocca reduced his own salary to one dollar a year. Most people expected Chrysler to fail anyway. They were wrong. New vehicles arrived. Sales improved. Factories reopened. Employees returned.

The company slowly came back to life. Then came the moment nobody expected. August 15, 1983. Lee Iacocca walked into a room carrying a check. Eight hundred million dollars. The remaining government-backed debt. Paid in full. Seven years ahead of schedule.

The executive who had been fired. Mocked. Written off. Had just completed one of the greatest business turnarounds in American history. Some people quit after humiliation. Lee Iacocca used it as fuel.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Did You Know? 🇺🇸

• Trump didn’t deliver a eulogy for a former Klan member — that was Joe Biden.
• Trump didn’t have a relationship with a Chinese spy — that was Eric Swalwell.
• Trump didn’t spy on an incoming president — that was Obama.
• Trump didn’t store classified documents on a private server — that was Hillary Clinton.
• Trump didn’t make millions trading stocks while in Congress — that was the Pelosi.

Trump is one of the most transparent presidents in modern history, constantly fighting a system stacked against him — while the media labels every attack on him a “scandal.”

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Republicans have the power to set a particular date as Election Day going forward. They have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. Common sense Voter ID and a mandatory Election Day would be the end of the Democrat Party.

Why won’t they do it?

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

With a few more days of harvesting and printing fake ballots, Democrats will miraculously “come from behind” (pun intended), and win the governor’s race and the Los Angeles mayor’s race. It is bold-faced cheating, rubbed in the faces of California citizens with giddy glee.

And it will keep happening until we stop taking it.

[Coach Pickett @oldpik]

Man. Disappointed for the team. But glad to get another home game for Aidan

[Jacquie Franciulli @JacquieFran_]

Source: Virginia's season opener in Brazil against NC State is in question.

A move back to Scott Stadium a possibility.

https://t.co/DOVdpre0TG

[The Patriot Oasis™ @ThePatriotOasis]

🔥🚨 JUST IN — Vanilla Ice RIPS CNN and the artists who decided to pull out of performances for America’s 250th anniversary celebration in Washington, DC.

CNN: Why are you still planning on performing?

VANILLA ICE: "I'm PROUD to be an American! I don't like ANYBODY telling me I can't be proud of it."

"We're celebrating the birthday of our country, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL HERE?"

"I think this is a huge honor." 🔥

"This whole world is like a snow globe, but it shouldn't be that, and music is here to bring people together, man. And, you know, it shouldn't be that this music is dragged into politics."

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

Spencer Pratt LAYS DOWN THE LAW to Pothead Bill Maher: “I care about safety, the lights being on potholes. What a mayor should care about.”

Bill Maher: “Pot?”

Spencer Pratt: “If it's legal… I'm going to be enforcing… I don't want you smoking in front of kids at the park. I'll be enforcing if you're smoking that in front of a kid at a swing.”

“I’ll be getting you as mayor. No more drugs around kids at parks, in schools, in front of day cares, even if it's legal pot.”

“We need to have a society of consequences again. I never thought growing up I could smoke a blunt in front of a kid at the park. Now that happens.”

Common sense.

[Go Heels @TarHeelGameDay]

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This was so funny I almost cried! 🤣😂 Where everybody Knows your name!

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

5 years old - Dad knows everything!

7 years old - Dad knows.

10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?!

12 years old - Dad doesn’t know.

14 years old - Dads gone crazy!

16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously.

18 years old - What does dad know?!

22 years old - Dads talking rubbish!

24 years old - I know more than dad!

26 years old - Dad seems to know some things after all.

30 years old - Think I should ask dad about this?!

40 years old - It’s amazing how dad went through all this!

45 years old - Dads been right all along.

50 years old - If dad was here, I could have learned a lot from him.

Your father is the only man who's proud to see you doing better than him.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Kevin O’Leary: "What I find so interesting about a cohort of 23 year olds that I teach in business classes, they're all socialists, all of them, until they get their first paycheck."

[KR Baseball @KRBaseball1]

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[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

WAIT...WHAT 🚨

The media told us they didn't want Trump cleaning up DC

Under Biden, there were no vendors

Trump came on the scene, and said everyone has to go back to work.. it's like watching a movie, when you pause it, then press play

The water fountains are running again

People love Trump... the media's lying to you

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

🇺🇸 Columbus Circle at Union Station in D.C. is CLEAN & SAFE again!

This is what real leadership looks like. President Trump is exactly what Washington needed to bring our capital back to glory.

America’s comeback is here🇺🇸

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

Spanberger, who previously declared Governors shouldn’t interfere with the governance of universities, just fired the most beloved Rector in Va Tech history, John Rocovich.  The man who was the force behind recruiting James Franklin to save the football program, who has served twice before as Rector, who has given decades of his life to his beloved alma matter was fired without explanation.  This is a shameful act to appease her leftwing base & proves once again she is Governor Bait & Switch.

[On3 @On3]

NEW: Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell have introduced bipartisan legislation, The Protect College Sports Act:

• One-time transfer, 5-year eligibility
• "Lane Kiffin Rule" preventing coaches from leaving midseason
• Ban pro players, including international pro players

Details: https://t.co/79CojWQ7oQ

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

Our best moment of the Indy 500 yesterday was when nearly 400,000 Americans at the world’s largest single-day sporting event went completely silent for the playing of Taps.

Our country never takes for granted the profound sacrifices that have been made in the defense of freedom. #MemorialDay

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Kyle Larson’s son went over to console Kyle Busch’s son

What a moment

[Dave Peabody @davepeabody]

UNC just lost a goal in the national championship game because the player’s foot touched the crease well AFTER the goal, while she was celebrating. That’s…batshit insane. Absolute lunacy, that rule. #NCAALax