What Da'Rick Rogers, Derek Dooley, and the Vols Want and are Getting for Christmas
by Joel Hollingsworth on Dec 16, 2011 8:23 AM EST
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PrintIt's Christmas list time, Tennessee Volunteer style. Here's what our favorite guys are asking for . . . and what we're getting them instead.
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What Da'Rick Rogers Asked For: The Coleman LED Rechargeable Spotlight. It's mobile. Rechargeable. Screams "Look At This!" It has "2.5 hours of runtime on a single charge, or indefinitely when plugged in" and a "convenient trigger switch" that turns it on and off. Some gifts were made special for some people.
What Da'Rick Rogers Is Getting Instead: A copy of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. That shouldn't be hard to find, but Plan B is a Brain. You know, like the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz. It's not an indictment of Rogers' intelligence -- I have no data on that. It's to help him mature from youthful foolishness to wisdom. It's also important to note that the old Wiz didn't actually give the Scarecrow (or the Tin Man or the Cowardly Lion) anything in that final ceremony other than a mere trinket acknowledging that which they already had but didn't know they possessed. Rogers has talent. He has confidence. He probably has a modicum of wisdom, too, but he needs to use it, and Dale Carnegie, who says success can be attributed "15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people," can help. Time to work on the 85%, Mr. Rogers. Go out there and win over and lead your teammates. Foster chemistry rather than threatening it. If you do, the yards and the TDs you desire will follow. But if you go after the yards and TDs to the exclusion of the other, you'll miss out on 85% of your potential, and we'll start calling you Mr. 15%.
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What Derek Dooley Asked For: A Novelty Distorted Watch by Control Brand, a Delorean ("you know, like the one in that movie?"), an auto-renewing subscription to Time, and a butt-cooling office chair, which actually looks pretty . . . cool . . . if you can either ignore or process all of the Nihongo.
What Derek Dooley Is Getting Instead: Perfect Timing: How Isaac Murphy Became one of the World's Greatest Jockeys, by Patsi B. Trollinger. Heh. I did not make up that last name. Here's the thing, jockeys are tiny men controlling huge animals made and conditioned for sport. Good ones get the most out of those things by knowing when to unleash hell with the crop and when to ease off because the horse is already giving its all and another lashing would start down a slippery road of diminishing returns. Praise and criticism, kudos and cajoling, pushing and pulling and resting, it must all be used in the right balance to achieve the right results. Those little men know how to turn things bred for talent into champions. Yeah, there's some timing involved, but one must use that time well.
What Tennessee Fans Asked For: National relevance. Now. Make that yesterday.
What Tennessee Fans Are Getting: For the optimists, a free copy of Water the Bamboo by former Oregon basketball player Greg Bell with every purchase of a ticket to a sporting event. (By the way, check out all of the cool things you can make with bamboo.)
For the pessimists, this:
What Justin Hunter Asked For: A shiny brand new ACL and the best orthopedists and rehab facilities in the country.
What Justin Hunter Is Getting: Shoot, that sounds pretty good to me.
What Tyler Bray Asked For: A USB Hamster Wheel, a Screaming Slingshot Monkey, a pair of Handerpants, and a bacon tuxedo.
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What Tyler Bray Is Getting Instead: A copy of Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long. That and the Handerpants, because I'd love to see him actually sport them during a game.
What's on your list?
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The Handpants are cool but no eating chocolate bars while wearing them....
Got a pic of that office chair? That might actually be helpful in the Deep South over the long break between seasons.
We're watching when you are not. Protecting against another 9-11.
Do You Know Who Isaac Murphy Is?
Since you didn’t go into detail, may I help you out?
Isaac Murphy was the greatest jockey of his time. He too face much harher treatment than Dooley, Rogers or anybody elso wearing a “T” on his chest, yet wihtout fanfare.
Why? Because he was an outcast.
Quick Facts
NAME: Isaac Burns Murphy
OCCUPATION: Athlete
BIRTH DATE: April 16, 1861
DEATH DATE: February 12, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH: Frankfort, Kentucky
Best Known For
Isaac Burns Murphy was the most successful horse jockey in history and was the highest-paid athlete in the United States during his lifetime. He rode in the Kentucky Derby 11 times and was the first jockey to win successive Derby crowns and the first three-time winner, in 1884, 1890, and 1891. In 1884 he won the first American Derby in Chicago, the most prestigious race of the era. He won this race again in 1885, 1886, and 1888. He also won a celebrated match race against fellow Hall of Famer Edward ("Snapper") Garrison in 1890. Murphy’s career winning percentage of 34.5 has never been equaled.
But Isaac Murphy was born at the wrong time. Murphy is one of only two African American jockeys to receive the honor of being inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame.
So, Dooley needs pay attention to this….“Murphy began racing in 1875 and was one of the first jockeys to pace his mount for a charge down the homestretch—a technique soon described as the "grandstand finish." He rode upright and urged his mounts on with words and a spur rather than the whip.”
Sgt Rutledge aka Woody Strode
My point being
Isaac Murphy was successful despite competing during one of the most dangerous times in American history. All the cards were stacked against him yet he still found a way to win. Coach Derek Dooley has it so much easier than Mr. Murphy, so I will give him no slack from this day forward.
Sgt Rutledge aka Woody Strode
And what does a lawyer use as his choice of weapons?
As Larry Blackman of Cameo would say….Word Up! I hear ya Pdx.
Sgt Rutledge aka Woody Strode
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