Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Friday, January 6, 2006

THE DIVISION GAP NARROWS

I am very pleased to "announce" that we will be playing BYU on April 14 at Denver University. In a second game that will follow D.U. will play host to Notre Dame in a Division I lacrosse match-up. We will be able to stay and watch. This event will be great for CSU lacrosse if we do it right, and hopefully a tradition for us as well.

This doubleheader at D.U. idea is something we have been striving towards for a couple of years now. I am excited that we could work it out for ’06.

Our fans/families will have to pay for tickets to the games, and the money made will mostly benefit the D.U. program, but I am fine with that, and we do have opportunity to make a few dollars. Tickets procured will get them into the Notre Dame vs. D.U. game.

The bottom line is that I just want this venue to play in, and hopefully to play to a big "house". I love it when we play in front of a lot of people. It doesn't matter if they are hostile or friendly. I like it either way. Obviously we should have more love at D.U. than the Cougars,, but BYU alumni is strong and long and hopefully will be well represented there as well. My hope is that together we can hype the gate a little for the old MDIA cause.

We now have two big games in Denver this spring on successive weekends. They come near the end of the season. All of our big conference games are in April this year. For once the actual in-conference schedule should be really fun in terms of timing and how it will align the 4 big dogs of our RML Conference.

PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS NO MORE

I have my own mini-crusade going. I no longer accept pennies. Whenever I am given one penny or more, it or they go immediately into that universal little penny cup that is on every cashier counter in America. I will carry no copper. I do not care how many nickels this might ultimately cost me in the rest of my pathetic lifetime.

I’m not particularly "good" with loose change anyway, as in I leave a lot around, and women I have lived with in my lifetime have always appreciated that fact I think.

NOT POLAROID, YOU IDIOT

The following is rated BT (bad taste) and should not be read by the squeamish. I apologize even before I write.

DEFINITELY NOT MY GOOD SIDE

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to my prostate today. I thought I was going in for what would be a more or less routine trip to my primary care giver's office this morning, for my annual check-up, but it ended up with me giving "birth" to my first hemorrhoid. I have never had one of these babies before. It's been quite a year for me pioneering various new sorts of personal physical growths and maladies.

I had originally started out pretty chipper this morning, looking forward to the many things I was going to do after my annual doctor check-up thing.

CUT ME MS. MICK

Then, all of a sudden, before I knew what had happened I was feeling somewhat humbled shall we say, not so full of day and self, lying on my side, half covered (or is that half naked?), crying and squirming with pain from some kind of needle piercing a place that I never want to be poked, a place where the sun definitely does not shine, and then there were three women, Doctor, nurse, and the always fun "observer in training", and they all were looking straight up my.........butt seriously folks, ouch.

I think I will be fine, but not today, and I am no longer feeling quite as amusing as I felt earlier. She didn't even get to the routine check-up part of the appointment. She obviously couldn't get past the first bump in the road. I guess I'll have to stay tuned for a while as the fun unfolds..

LACK OF THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

My brother-in-law Stuart is only a little older than I am. He knows exactly how he wants his retirement to look, and he is about to begin the whole happy process. He will work part time, his time. He has destinations planned to visit with his wife, my sister. I suppose they will go to those few places in the world they have not yet been. They have a million ways to fill time and they travel like pros. Their nest will be finally empty.

RAGE AGAINST AGE? IMPOSSIBLE!

Me on the other hand, I have no clue, no plan, and no ARP ambition to speak of whatsoever. I basically can't drive 55. My dimension is questionable in spite of my very good liberal arts education. I am a terminal lacrosse "gym rat" with two still little kids, a business, and no hobbies. Well, almost no hobbies, and anyone who knows me knows how NOT well I travel.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I should be jealous of Stuart's mature grasp of his personal future or not. It's always good to know where you are headed I reckon. I think I am glad to still be able to choose not to go there for a while yet.

I always wonder if I am on track to be a train wreck waiting to happen.

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