The older I get, the more I have come to realize that the greatest and long-lasting lessons I have learned in my life have come with a certain degree of humiliation and perseverance.
Humiliation is a tremendous motivator, that is, if one allows it to be.
In 1979, during my first year of full-time teaching and coaching, I was appointed to be the head coach of the freshman football team. It was my first e crack at being a football coach and by the grace of God , Trinity-Pawling gave me an assistant coach named Carl “Popeye” Ray, an alum of the school and former All-American center at Dartmouth College.