Mornin Mates..
Today's Topic = Mothers Day
My mom became a huge Sun Devil fan after she moved out to Tempe from NJ to be with us in the desert...
All three of her kids have ASU degrees and she joined us in celebrating Sun Devil athletics...
She never missed watching her Devils playing football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling, etc, on a regular basis...
She never hovered over any of her kids but made our games in junior and senior HS when we played those sports there...
She also never figured that her kids were little darlings who could do no wrong as she knew better than that...
When I was younger and was upset about something like having to do some chores, I sometimes would run away from home but mom always fixed me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, with some chips and a soda, so when I got to the corner and ate my run-away meal, I returned home in short order and then did my chores...
My parents also told me when I got to HS that if I broke the law or disrespected teachers or screwed up in other ways, that those people would be the least of my worries and I knew exactly what that meant...
I wasn't going to get a P&J sandwich with chips and a soda and was most certainly going to be held accountable for any misdeeds...
Now we live in a selfie world where everything is celebrated, as if, like getting out of bed, is some sort of big deal, when in reality it's nothing at all for the most part...
Where it all ends no one knows but at least when it comes to NIL the state has put together a law that makes some sense...
It doesn't put a limit on how many Rolex watches a college player can waltz around campus in showing off their "status" but does set some boundaries around the whole process and what that entails...
Players won't be employees of the school but will get paid for some services provided to the school such as playing a sport at the school...
Whether this helps to level the playing field between those that have vs the have-nots is, again, anyone's guess at this point in time...
Time will tell and it will be interesting to see how this is all handled within the ASU athletic dept...
I have no idea how my mother would have viewed all of this wrangling related to college sports these days but I'm sure she would still be rooting for our Sun Devils in all sports...
She probably would have volunteered to make some P&J sandwiches for some of our athletes who might have needed them...
That's what moms do after all...
Happy Mothers Day to all those Sun Devil moms out there...
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
Today's Topic = Mothers Day
My mom became a huge Sun Devil fan after she moved out to Tempe from NJ to be with us in the desert...
All three of her kids have ASU degrees and she joined us in celebrating Sun Devil athletics...
She never missed watching her Devils playing football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling, etc, on a regular basis...
She never hovered over any of her kids but made our games in junior and senior HS when we played those sports there...
She also never figured that her kids were little darlings who could do no wrong as she knew better than that...
When I was younger and was upset about something like having to do some chores, I sometimes would run away from home but mom always fixed me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, with some chips and a soda, so when I got to the corner and ate my run-away meal, I returned home in short order and then did my chores...
My parents also told me when I got to HS that if I broke the law or disrespected teachers or screwed up in other ways, that those people would be the least of my worries and I knew exactly what that meant...
I wasn't going to get a P&J sandwich with chips and a soda and was most certainly going to be held accountable for any misdeeds...
Now we live in a selfie world where everything is celebrated, as if, like getting out of bed, is some sort of big deal, when in reality it's nothing at all for the most part...
Where it all ends no one knows but at least when it comes to NIL the state has put together a law that makes some sense...
It doesn't put a limit on how many Rolex watches a college player can waltz around campus in showing off their "status" but does set some boundaries around the whole process and what that entails...
Players won't be employees of the school but will get paid for some services provided to the school such as playing a sport at the school...
Whether this helps to level the playing field between those that have vs the have-nots is, again, anyone's guess at this point in time...
Time will tell and it will be interesting to see how this is all handled within the ASU athletic dept...
I have no idea how my mother would have viewed all of this wrangling related to college sports these days but I'm sure she would still be rooting for our Sun Devils in all sports...
She probably would have volunteered to make some P&J sandwiches for some of our athletes who might have needed them...
That's what moms do after all...
Happy Mothers Day to all those Sun Devil moms out there...
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
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