Classroom Talk
Winter 2002 Archive
Licking my wounds . . . and making amends. Posted by John on March 22, 2002 at 11:33:00:
In Reply to: Re: About several of you . . . and the Sweet Sixteen. ;-) posted by Douglas on March 21, 2002 at 20:28:55:
I understand, Eddie. And your friends are celebrating today. The Sooners out-muscled the Wildcats on the offensive backboards, and took over the
game in the second half. A very strong team, physically, well-guided by Coach Samson—one of the college coaches I like as a human being—it looks
like they could make it to the Final Four, and might even go all the way. Good luck to Oklahomans! I say.
As for me, I can't really be disappointed. I loved the way our young players developed over the season for Arizona. We lost four starters (to the
pros) from the previous year's team that made it all the way to the Final Championship Game of the tournament before losing. It was another *great*
coaching job by Lute Olson this year. He's one of the very best. All in all, fans around here got much more than we expected this season. And . . .
like they say . . . wait'l next year! Heh-heh. (A little more anger chuckled away!)
As one of the typical mindfulness exercises in my own personal practice, throughout the game I kept awake and worked on processing my emotional
reactions on through as they kept coming up during the game, consciously keeping my body as loose and relaxed as I could, and staying as mentally
composed as possible. It was a *challenging* game that way for me . . . (ahem) under the circumstances of the score, but I played my part in it pretty
well. As you can see, I appreciated "the difficulties" to the utmost, and I rejoiced at the many *beautful plays* on both sides!
Ah, Douglas . . . . . Ow! I wasn't being as awake and cautious as *you* were being, was I? I do feel contrite. I didn't mean to rile you up . . . just
trying to be "a strong coach." I wasn't faulting you for being long-winded like me, by the way. I was trying to inspire you to make more efforts at
being easily understandable, minute by minute, to your oh-so fallible friends like me. Can you forgive me?
Coach
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