techsamillion
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vs. Maturity, vs. somewhere in-between.
I have always been for Tech (and to me personally, that has also meant I was for the coaches of Tech). That does not mean that I was 100% happy with who they were. There was at least one that I felt from the beginning (many years ago) would fail. He did. But I guarantee you that no one ever hear a negative word from my mouth about him or the program. Even when Georgia nailed us to the wall. It does mean that if they were our called/hired leaders, then I was 100% behind them and did not ever publicly speak against them. Sorry, that is just the way I am.
Internet has introduced a different opportunity than ever before for venting against any/everything that does not meet with our individual approval. (((Just for the sake of such liberty: I was for 1st: Mac, 2nd: the O.C. from Maryland, 3rd. the guy from Boston College and 4th the assistant from V.T. to be our new coach when O'Leary went to Notre Dame.))) I got none of my four wishes. Instead Coach Chan Gailey was hired. Guess what: I made the best of it. I looked on the positve side and normally I am a realist than leans toward pessimism. The main message I want all to get is that I went along and supported 100% the guy that was chosen.
Forgive me if I offend anyone, but I cannot for the life of me understand nor forgive those who have fought against him from the beginning, middle, last of last year, or now.
Anyone, I say anyone, who has ever been in a position that in the slightest resembles the same demands of leadership (I am confident) will confess the same. I have had to face very similar small, selfish, immature negativity that he has during his time here, so I understand in part what he is going through. For some of your information, by the way, I did the same when Bobby Ross was here. Some/probably most were ready to crucify him. I knew something of what he was going through, so I wrote him a personal letter to explain that he had nothing that he had to prove.....he had already shown himself to be a good football coach and all the critques were simply coming against him for selfish reasons of self adgrandisement. Later on, on a Television show after he began to "bounce back", a reporter asked him about letters he had recieved during his "down time". He said he had gotten many negative ones but on about two positive ones (then he named me/mine). That was a great lesson for me.
I want to try my best not to judge some of you. Of course I have notions as to why some of you have always or have become anti-Chan. I have reacted ignorantly against some of you. But now, I hesitate to do so. Some of you have some traumatic emotional issues that you knowingly or unknowingly (sub-consciously) deal with. It may be where you are in life, it may be your present set of problems, it may be that you yourself have just always been uncomfortable with anyone else's success and happy with another's difficulties.
That being said: please, if you must speak negatively or bust wide open; then just choose for the time being to bust wide open. The world is full of cynicism and negativity. There is no use for nor room for it at TEch at this present hour. Just ask God, how He would have you to post and then post accordingly. If you are an atheist, then fine; i.d. yourself as such; but for the rest, please, let's get together and support the team, school, coaches, workers, etc. at Tech and see all the positive that happens. If you want positive things to happen, then this a way to assure that they will. If you do not, then just slander, curse, be disgruntled, judgemental, miserable, sour, etc, etc........But rest assured: God's Will Shall Be Done!!!!!! The statement has been uttered before: "The question is not whether God is on my side; but whether I am on His side. Just how would God have you to post? A good question for us all/me included. Thanks for listening.
I have always been for Tech (and to me personally, that has also meant I was for the coaches of Tech). That does not mean that I was 100% happy with who they were. There was at least one that I felt from the beginning (many years ago) would fail. He did. But I guarantee you that no one ever hear a negative word from my mouth about him or the program. Even when Georgia nailed us to the wall. It does mean that if they were our called/hired leaders, then I was 100% behind them and did not ever publicly speak against them. Sorry, that is just the way I am.
Internet has introduced a different opportunity than ever before for venting against any/everything that does not meet with our individual approval. (((Just for the sake of such liberty: I was for 1st: Mac, 2nd: the O.C. from Maryland, 3rd. the guy from Boston College and 4th the assistant from V.T. to be our new coach when O'Leary went to Notre Dame.))) I got none of my four wishes. Instead Coach Chan Gailey was hired. Guess what: I made the best of it. I looked on the positve side and normally I am a realist than leans toward pessimism. The main message I want all to get is that I went along and supported 100% the guy that was chosen.
Forgive me if I offend anyone, but I cannot for the life of me understand nor forgive those who have fought against him from the beginning, middle, last of last year, or now.
Anyone, I say anyone, who has ever been in a position that in the slightest resembles the same demands of leadership (I am confident) will confess the same. I have had to face very similar small, selfish, immature negativity that he has during his time here, so I understand in part what he is going through. For some of your information, by the way, I did the same when Bobby Ross was here. Some/probably most were ready to crucify him. I knew something of what he was going through, so I wrote him a personal letter to explain that he had nothing that he had to prove.....he had already shown himself to be a good football coach and all the critques were simply coming against him for selfish reasons of self adgrandisement. Later on, on a Television show after he began to "bounce back", a reporter asked him about letters he had recieved during his "down time". He said he had gotten many negative ones but on about two positive ones (then he named me/mine). That was a great lesson for me.
I want to try my best not to judge some of you. Of course I have notions as to why some of you have always or have become anti-Chan. I have reacted ignorantly against some of you. But now, I hesitate to do so. Some of you have some traumatic emotional issues that you knowingly or unknowingly (sub-consciously) deal with. It may be where you are in life, it may be your present set of problems, it may be that you yourself have just always been uncomfortable with anyone else's success and happy with another's difficulties.
That being said: please, if you must speak negatively or bust wide open; then just choose for the time being to bust wide open. The world is full of cynicism and negativity. There is no use for nor room for it at TEch at this present hour. Just ask God, how He would have you to post and then post accordingly. If you are an atheist, then fine; i.d. yourself as such; but for the rest, please, let's get together and support the team, school, coaches, workers, etc. at Tech and see all the positive that happens. If you want positive things to happen, then this a way to assure that they will. If you do not, then just slander, curse, be disgruntled, judgemental, miserable, sour, etc, etc........But rest assured: God's Will Shall Be Done!!!!!! The statement has been uttered before: "The question is not whether God is on my side; but whether I am on His side. Just how would God have you to post? A good question for us all/me included. Thanks for listening.
