Different Coaching styles and the need for TIME MACHINES

[CharlieK]

Not sure if you are responding to me? But my father died my Sr year of high school. My mother was an educator also with five kids the youngest were 7,5, and 2. I and every one of her other kids payed every penny of their own room and board and spending money while in college. None lived at home. I worked every summer at the port of Iberia my average weeks were 6 to 6 Monday through Saturday. My biggest week ever was 96 hrs. I also worked 20 hrs a week for the transit department while in school. It is what my siblings and I did because we wanted to go to college and have a true college experience. I finished school with no debt at all.

My kids pay every dime of their own living expenses, spending money, and dues for any organizations they might join in college as well.

I am not trying to be condescending at all.

Bayou Pipe Veteran

[cjr3888]

Bayou Pipe Veteran

That place still helps keep many local companies in business.

[CharlieK]

That place still helps keep many local companies in business.

Helped put me through school, $5.25/hr at the time! Many 90 hour weeks across 3 summers and a couple of Christmas breaks.

[KajunKrazy]

. . . congrats to you and each of your siblings . . . but you act like your way is the only way . . . it’s not . . . me and my parents chose to do it another way for different reasons and it worked out just fine for us . . . one of my kids, who went to Louisiana cost me very little as HE chose to live at home to get his Mechanical Engineering degree . . . the lion’s share of his co-students required a much longer time to complete their degrees because of their lack of self discipline while in school . . . those that lived at home generally faired much better and completed their degree on time . . . he worked summers in a career related job which is now affording him substantial opportunities for advancement at his current job . . . the other played sports away and got a great degree at the college he attended and will be starting a post graduate degree program in August also away from home . . . he is working this summer in a career related job and as a result will have a substantial advantage in his post degree program and that group is already courting him strongly for a permanent position when he completes his post degree . . . as long as I am capable, both will finish their education without any debt . . . so, there is more than one way to skin a cat . . . we just chose different paths and none of us competed a 13th year of high school . . .

Congrats to both your boys they are fine young men and it sounds like very good students. In know way was I trying to suggest there is only one way to do it. Hey different strokes for different folks. I surely never suggested that the education would be different from a classroom standpoint, the degree will be the same no matter what route you take.

My son went to school in Arkansas his first semester in fall of 2020. Shortly after he got there he learned that there was going to be no in person class and no football season. He lived in a dorm from right after the July 4th to around Halloween, only able to work out in the morning and go to the cafeteria. Other than that if he wanted to be out of the dorm it had to be off campus. It was like house arrest so he came home and finished on line. When he came home I told him he was more than welcome to live at home during school but it would be under my rules. He thought for all of about 30 seconds and said “you know I think I’ll find some roommates and move out. He later joined a fraternity and is enjoying the college experience. For him, even though I live a few blocks off of St Mary Blvd, the college experience was very important than the ease and comforts of Momma and Daddy’s house. Also I am paying less than I would if he were home, because I would have to provide 3 squares a day, in which I don’t because he pays living expenses.

I guess 13th grade may have not been the right term. Being from NI we had a good mix of students that would move out of mommas and house and live on or near campus and there were also those that would live at home and commute back and forth everyday. We referred to the kids that moved out as going to “college” and the kids that commuted just went to “school”. (I know there are exceptions to the rule.) The ones that went to “college” usually were the ones taking part in the full college experience. You would see them in SGA, UPC, on fraternity and sorority row, at homecoming week activities, intramurals, football, basketball and baseball games etc. The kids from NI that would commute you would only see them during the school day when you walked by places like Guillory hall or the Union where they hung out between classes if they had a break. They rarely got involved in any student organizations, joined any clubs or participated in extra curricular activities. They drove to Lafayette went to class and when class was over they drove home. They weren’t coming back on school days for extra stuff.

There are definitely different ways to get that education, but its hard to get the full college experience living with momma. Thats all I was trying to say.

[KajunKrazy]

Helped put me through school, $5.25/hr at the time! Many 90 hour weeks across 3 summers and a couple of Christmas breaks.

Charlie but we were usually on overtime by Thursday and got time and half after that. That was the real money. Lol.

[John Cocktolstoy]

. . . congrats to you and each of your siblings . . . but you act like your way is the only way . . . it’s not . . . me and my parents chose to do it another way for different reasons and it worked out just fine for us . . . one of my kids, who went to Louisiana cost me very little as HE chose to live at home to get his Mechanical Engineering degree . . . the lion’s share of his co-students required a much longer time to complete their degrees because of their lack of self discipline while in school . . . those that lived at home generally faired much better and completed their degree on time . . . he worked summers in a career related job which is now affording him substantial opportunities for advancement at his current job . . . the other played sports away and got a great degree at the college he attended and will be starting a post graduate degree program in August also away from home . . . he is working this summer in a career related job and as a result will have a substantial advantage in his post degree program and that group is already courting him strongly for a permanent position when he completes his post degree . . . as long as I am capable, both will finish their education without any debt . . . so, there is more than one way to skin a cat . . . we just chose different paths and none of us competed a 13th year of high school . . .

That’s a lot of words to say I was scared to leave home like a big boy and go to college. I might miss my mommy.

[CajunVic]

That’s a lot of words to say I was scared to leave home like a big boy and go to college. I might miss my mommy.

. . . that is why I was practicing law at 23 while many of my colleagues were still mastering the art drunkenness, bars, DWI’s and regularly reaching out to their mommy’s or save them from their troubled lives . . . and struggling to complete a 4 year degree in 6 years of going to college . . . and at 24 I owned my own house, nice vehicle and a boat . . . but go ahead and knock it . . .

[John Cocktolstoy]

. . . that is why I was practicing law at 23 while many of my colleagues were still mastering the art drunkenness, bars, DWI’s and regularly reaching out to their mommy’s or save them from their troubled lives . . . and struggling to complete a 4 year degree in 6 years of going to college . . . and at 24 I owned my own house, nice vehicle and a boat . . . but go ahead and knock it . . .

A new lawyer just moved into Lafayette out of central Louisiana. He’s like the Gordon of Cen La. His slogan is Do it Right. He was in a fraternity and out many nights at the strip. Moved to college from marksville to here. I was in the fraternity next door.

[KajunKrazy]

. . . that is why I was practicing law at 23 while many of my colleagues were still mastering the art drunkenness, bars, DWI’s and regularly reaching out to their mommy’s or save them from their troubled lives . . . and struggling to complete a 4 year degree in 6 years of going to college . . . and at 24 I owned my own house, nice vehicle and a boat . . . but go ahead and knock it . . .

Dang dude. How many year program is law school. Is it 2 or 4 year?

[KajunKrazy]

You know maybe, just maybe, Des is teaching kids how to become responsible adults. Not controlling every single moment of their day.

Just reading through the comments about changes in the offseason and in camp. I am not saying this is good, bad, or ugly just an observation.

I go to Reds every morning of the work week. Part of my route is down Cajun Dome Blvd from Eraste Landry to Johnston. I get to the light at Cajun Dome and Congress every morning between 4:50 and 5:10. During Napiers years I could see cars of ball players pulling in from all directions into the parking lot when sitting at the light during June and July. This year I haven’t seen one car in the parking lot at that time.

Just one difference in strategy that I have noticed.