My Final Thoughts

From this blog project, I learned more than I ever would have imagined. I now know that so much goes into the ideal football game you watch every Saturday on television. People put their lives into this game. Coaches give it their all and include their families in their love for football. Players have dreams and passion that cannot be measured. Team mates depend on each other and trust the others with their life. The team and coaching staff unite as a family with one goal. The big stars are on the field are equally as important as every other player out there. Every player does there part and brings their own mix to the recipe. A strong head coach, like Urban Meyer, is the backbone to a football team. Players with leadership such as Tim Tebow are someone to look up to and seek for knowledge. Losing doesn’t mean you’ve lost. Most importantly, going through the experience together outweighs the glory of the win.

My favorite part of this project was my reading my full-length book. Urban’s Way shows everything that I learned from this project. I believe this is because Urban Meyer makes the Florida Gators team. Without him, I know they would be a completely different group of young men. They have this commitment, passion, and faith instilled in them through their coach. He passes on what he had during his years as a player. They was he was raised is the way he “raises” them as a team. He makes his team his family. Because of this, they have had tremendous success. Better than that, they will walk away from the experience as better people.

I wish I would have taken this project more seriously. If I would have allotted more time for each assignment, I could have benefited more. Doing things in a rush took away from the knowledge I could have achieved. Along with being rushed for time, I put my reading my book off way too much! Looking back, I don’t even understand why, because it was amazing.

Finally, I know believe that it is hard to answer my question with a single answer. We only get to watch and see what the media portrays of college football. Behind the curtain, so much is going on. As seen in Urban’s Way, coaches do more than coach. They aren’t the angry, yelling men we see on television. They care about these players and their success, both in and out of football. Yet, their coaching abilities on the field obviously bring in the points. The trust built is what gets the coaches success on and off the field as Tebow’s interview proves. Trust extending through the players also brings success. If you can count on a team mate off the field, chances are you’ll trust them more on the field. The recruiting brings in great stars of the game. Florida has many strategies such as the “spread” offense which make them tough for any team to tackle. They strive on improvement; for example, their defense getting it back together after being criticized. In the end if you asked me to answer “what made the Florida Gators champions” with only one, simple reply, I’d say making the team a family.