Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Sunday, April 3, 2005

IT’S SUNDAY IN PERU, TOO

Ada and the kids have been gone and in Peru just over two weeks. It feels like forever. Was I once married with children or was that just a dream?

This morning I am missing that gang of mine, as insane and loud as we all are when together as an ensemble cast. Oh well, they will be home soon enough. I should enjoy writing in peace like this for as long as I possibly can.

ONE IS NOT THE LONELIEST NUMBER

It seems that I have reverted quickly and easily to my old bachelorhood ways of survival, and I am sheepish to say that I have enjoyed moments of being in this big house without noise for the first time in my five years of living here. Peaceful ain’t bad at all. I did this (live unmarried) until I was almost 40 years old anyway.

I’M A GLOMMER

I like to use all resources available. I look for many things, but most importantly I look.

I have never had an assistant coach who did not play with me as his coach first. That would be never.

I always search for people to help and get involved with "US", though. I believe there is power in numbers, and I will mostly take them wherever and whenever I can get them.

GRASSHOPPERS .

I am fortunate this season to have a "Staff" that pleases me very much. They are 20-something while I am somewhat older, but we communicate clearly on one or more levels. Bo Everett (CSU 2005) and Kale Nelson (CSU 2003) fit so well with this group that it helps us to have a chance to always widen our scope of improvement. Plus, I know what WORD they tend to be preaching, and the word is good.

The three of us work well during games, too, and we have already been called upon and challenged to find different ways to "get it done" this year. In games so far we have been leading while being chased hard, we’ve been behind, and we’ve been on some roller coasters. It is barely April.

All we need to make me really happy in the assistant coach arena would be to have Alex Smith (CSU 03) as goalie helper. In a way, through email and cell phone we do have him. He actually called and talked to Pete (G #3) on someone’s cell phone during halftime of the BYU game a few weeks ago. Alex was watching the game either on the TV or on the computer, and he had a few thoughts at the half. Now that’s the kind of passion I’m talking about.

UNCLE FLIP

I have sort of been "playing house" with my niece, Tahlia while the family has been in Peru, and it has been great to have her here as a team/coach’s assistant during this so far incredible season. That’s right, she (Tahlia) helps me coach by feeding me lacrosse information and observation, and by being my "personal assistant" both at home and when we are on the road.

Tahlia also knows and understands the less than charming side of me, which is valuable, and that’s because she is directly related to others that are like I am in some of those not-so-pretty (Naumburgish) ways. She’s seen it all before.

I guess you could say that Tahlia is a big part of two of my families. I was present at her birth in 1981, so our relationship is more fatherly than just the Uncle Flip thing.

She remains calm in a storm, too. With me and or us often having hurricane potential, this works well for me, too.

THE BEATLES FOREVER

Pretty much every Sunday morning I get in my truck or go to my office at some point, and I am always reminded when the radio comes on at these times that the greatest band of all time will be forever the Beatles. It’s not even close, sort of like the movie, "The Godfather". It's the whole team thing I think.

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