Christ follower; 35 years Katy’s husband;dad of Ryan & Landry;father-in-law of Lauren & Meredith;T-Pop to Kace & Levi; Texas Tech fan forever; opinions are mine
@eaglesanalysis1@chris_kratovil If Tech suspends him, aren’t they in contempt?
There is no bigger Tech fan than I, and I personally think the whole thing stinks. I wished the judge would rule against him…I have a ton of confidence in our backup qb.
Tech is catching flack for something they didn’t do.
@eaglesanalysis1@chris_kratovil Sorsby hasn’t played a day for Tech.
What, exactly, has Tech done wrong?
They didn’t file the injunction…Sorsby and his team did.
Cincinnati allegedly knew of his transgressions last year and did nothing about it. Why aren’t any fingers pointed at them?
@RyanHyattMedia Somewhere, in a box stored in the attic, most likely, are my “report cards” from my years at Gerald Myers basketball camp! It was always the highlight of my summers!
Back in the day, you could no longer go if you played high school varsity basketball (silly UIL rule).
Absolute legend!
Won 550+ games and many district championships at Frenship & Cooper.
Didn’t always have teams as athletic as some from the DFW area, but always got the most from the players he had.
Positively Impacted many lives along the way!
Did it with faith and integrity!
Frenship Girls Basketball Coach Trent Hilliard Announces Retirement after 36 years in Education/Coaching.
He spent the last 12 years at Frenship.
Hilliard previously coached the Lubbock Cooper girls. He won over 500 games in his career
Congrats Coach
@DanIsett@OrangeBowl We were literally headed to the stadium and my son remembered seeing something about it at the casino Wednesday night!
Very lucky! (with the parking and shuttle, not at the casino) 😂
sat next to a guy on a flight who smelled like old money
rolex. tailored suit. reading a physical newspaper like it was 1987.
figured he was some finance executive or inherited wealth.
we got talking. I mentioned I sell stuff online.
he put down his newspaper.
"what kind of stuff?"
digital products. courses. ebooks. that kind of thing.
he smiled weird.
"I made $4 million last year selling a PDF about aquariums."
I thought he was messing with me.
he wasn't.
this guy is 61 years old. spent 30 years as an accountant. hated every second of it. retired at 55 with decent savings but nothing crazy.
his hobby was aquariums. had been keeping fish tanks since he was 12.
"my wife told me to start a blog so I'd stop boring her with fish facts."
so he did. wrote about aquarium stuff 3 times a week. water chemistry. tank setups. fish compatibility.
for 2 years nobody read it.
"I had maybe 50 visitors a month. all probably bots."
but he kept going because he had nothing else to do.
year 3, one article ranked on google. then another. then another.
suddenly he was getting 100K visitors a month. all people searching for aquarium help.
"I realized these people would probably pay for a complete guide. so I wrote one."
147 pages. everything about setting up and maintaining an aquarium.
priced it at $47.
first month: $6K
first year: $340K
last year: $4.2 million
from a PDF about fish tanks.
I asked about his marketing strategy.
"I don't have one. google sends people to my blog. blog mentions the guide. people buy it. I go play golf."
no email sequence?
"I have a newsletter. I send fish tips once a week. sometimes I mention the guide at the bottom. that's it."
no upsells?
"I made a second guide about saltwater tanks specifically. $67. people who bought the first one usually buy the second. that's my whole business."
no team?
"my wife helps with customer service. we get maybe 10 emails a day. most are just people showing us their tanks."
this 61 year old retiree built a bigger business than most "entrepreneurs" I know.
no ads. no funnel hacks. no growth strategies. no personal brand.
just mass expertise in one weird niche and patience to let it compound.
before we landed he gave me advice I didn't ask for:
"everyone your age wants to get rich fast. that's why most of you stay broke. I wrote about fish for 2 years before making a dollar. now I make more than I did in 30 years of accounting. speed is overrated. patience pays."
the plane landed. he grabbed his newspaper and walked off.
probably went home to feed his fish.