Head football coach at Woodford County Middle School-2023 KYMSFA Division 1 State Champions
Versailles, KY
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He probably also says “We dem boyz” before every NFL season! lol
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m rooting hard for Lane Kiffin & the Tigers this weekend.
Someone HAS to put an end to all of these mentally retarded BBN football fans.
You can tell they have zero idea of what a good football team looks like, at first it was cute watching them get all excited, when everyone knows in the back of their mind that they’re absolutely dog shit.
But now? It’s annoying, @Lane_Kiffin please put a end to this
This stadium is crazy!!!
The most expensive college football stadium in the country opens up tonight @NUFBFamily💰
“We don’t whine. We win.” I don’t care what your politics are. That might be the single greatest line I’ve ever heard from a political candidate!
👏🏼THIS👏🏼 is why Vivek is built different.
A planted question from the front row:
“How can Ohioans trust a jet-setting billionaire who promoted a failed Alzheimer’s drug?” 🙄
Vivek doesn’t dodge it. He looks at the guy and says, “You look like a plant, so I wanted to make sure I gave you a question.” Then he answers anyway.
Born an heir to nothing. Built companies that developed life-saving therapies.
Doing unscripted town halls across Ohio while Amy Acton still won’t get on a debate stage.
That’s not a politician. That’s a fighter. Ohio is lucky to have him.
One of the classiest things ever done by someone with Warrick Dunn’s status!
Warrick Dunn was 18 years old when his mother was shot and killed.
She was a Baton Rouge police officer, working a second job as a security guard to support six kids as a single mom, when she was killed in a botched robbery in 1993.
Her lifelong dream was to own a home. She never got there.
Dunn used her life insurance money to buy a house for his five younger siblings, so they could stay together.
Four years later, he was a first round pick for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
His head coach, Tony Dungy, challenged all his rookies to give back to the community. Most guys did an appearance or handed out turkeys at Thanksgiving.
Dunn thought about his mom instead.
He started a program called Homes for the Holidays. Every year, he picks single parent families who are working hard but can't get over the down payment hump, and buys them a house.
Not just the down payment either. Furniture in every room. A stocked pantry. Beds already made.
The first year, in 1997, he did it for three families.
He never stopped.
As of the most recent count, Warrick Dunn Charities has helped over 220 single parent families become first time homeowners.
One of those families, back in 2006, moved a teenager named Deshaun Watson into his own bedroom for the first time in his life.
"I felt grown to have my own room," Watson said years later. "Not really worrying about someone sneaking up on me. It was a special moment."
That kid grew up to be an NFL starting quarterback.
Most of the families Dunn helps never end up on a football field or in the news. That's kind of the point.
He's been doing this for almost 30 years, mostly out of the spotlight, funded by donations and his own money, one house at a time.
"I wanted to do something that was a little bit more impactful," Dunn said. "Not just handing out turkeys."
His mom never got the house she wanted.
So her son decided nobody in his path would go without one if he could help it.
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I’ll now be rooting for Xavier Legette!
Why will I ride for Xavier Legette no matter what?
This video is why.
He’s been through unimaginable pain but still remains grateful and walks around with a smile on his face.
Keep being great @XavierLegette 🙏🏼🫡
Coach Dave Thomas retweeted
Brit absolutely losing it over England vs USA possibly happening in Philadelphia on July 4th 😂
Americans will get a kick out of this video.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
England is in Group L, which does not feed into either Match 74 or Match 77, leaving England with no possible route to the July 4 match.
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Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:
Two kids. One rich. One poor.
Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.
The rich kid has two choices.
Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.
Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.
The poor kid has two choices too.
Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.
Or outwork everyone in the room.
Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.
Same choice for all of them.
Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.
The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.
The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.
Greatness doesn't come from where you start.
It comes from which kid you choose to feed.
Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy
Wise words!!!
I am not ashamed of my journey. My life will be a testimony.
But if I could offer a word of advice to any freshman, sophomore or junior athlete in high school it would be to just listen bro. All them adults in your life not just talking to talk. They been here longer. They done bumped they head already. They trying to save you from doing the same thing.
Do not make the mistake of thinking your talent alone is enough. It’s not. Talent open doors. Character and grades keep you there. And if you already messed up, if your GPA not where it should be, if your name been in rooms for the wrong reasons… don’t quit. Keep digging. You can climb out the hole the same way you dug it.
Class of 29, 28 and 27 hear me.
Take your grades serious.
Choose who you hang around wisely.
Protect your name. Word spreads fast if you a crash out.
Respect authority. Nobody riding for you like your parents and coaches.
Work hard when nobody clapping.
Do not wait until senior year to lock in. That GPA do not lie.
I’m still figuring it out myself. I’m struggling but I know God got me.
Be intentional.
Lock in early. Pray. Show up ready to work.
I’m learning the hard way that my future is being built in the small decisions I make today.
Start now.
Coach Dave Thomas retweeted
I locked the classroom door and turned to twenty five high school seniors, the Class of 2026. They were supposed to be the digital generation, confident and plugged in. Instead, staring back at me under the glow of hidden phones, they just looked tired.
I asked them to turn their phones off. Not silent. Off.
On my desk sat an old olive green military rucksack that belonged to my father. For weeks they ignored it, assuming it was just junk. They didn’t know it was the heaviest thing in the building.
I dragged it to the center of the room. Thud.
I told them we weren’t doing the Constitution that day. I handed out blank index cards with three rules. No names. Total honesty. Write down the heaviest thing you are carrying.
At first, no one moved. Then Sarah, straight A student, perfect everything, started writing. Then Marcus, the football captain, hunched over his card and wrote just three words.
One by one, they folded their cards and dropped them into the bag.
I zipped it shut and told them this bag was who they really were. Then I began to read.
A father pretending to go to work after losing his job. A student carrying Narcan for their mom. A kid mapping exits everywhere. A teen trapped between parents screaming about politics. A girl with thousands of followers crying alone at night.
Then the last card.
I don’t want to be here anymore. I’m just waiting for a sign to stay.
Marcus was crying openly. Sarah was holding the hand of a boy who usually sat alone. The cliques were gone. They were just kids carrying too much.
I told them the bag would stay in the room so they wouldn’t have to carry it alone anymore.
When the bell rang, no one rushed out. Every student stopped and touched the rucksack on the way out. I see you.
That night, a parent emailed me. Their son hugged them for the first time in years and asked for help.
Everyone you pass is carrying something you can’t see. Be kind. Be curious. Ask the people you love what they’re carrying. You might save a life.
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Seriously - WATCH ALL OF THIS! 🔥🔥👇🏼
“We got people literally camping in the streets, crying, lightning candles, holding signs, getting f*cking arrested, doing the most for people who broke into this country illegally, but when it comes to American veterans sleeping under the bridges, suddenly there’s not even a f*cking thought.”
“Y’all will shut down traffic for someone who hopped the fence, but won’t block a single street for the Marine who hopped on the f*cking grenade and came home invisible. And you weird a** politicians love to say we don’t have the money, but somehow there’s always enough money for people who aren’t f*cking citizens. That’s not a lack of funds, that’s a choice.”
“Fix our house first. Honor the people who built and defended it. Then we can talk about having guests over. Until that sh*t happens. Don’t talk to me about compassion.”
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130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.
He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.
At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.
Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.
Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.
Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.
People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.
Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.
Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.
Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.
Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.
Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.
Credit: Barclay Mullins
Coach Dave Thomas retweeted
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“Failing is growth. Failure is quit.”
“The hard part of being the standard is you are the standard.”
“Joy is never letting circumstances dictate your behavior.”
100% coaching gold.
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Jesus died at 33. The human spine has 33 vertebrae. The same structure that holds us up is the same number of years He held this Earth.
We have 12 ribs on each side. 12 disciples. 12 tribes of Israel. God built His design into our bones. He wrote Heaven into our anatomy.
The vagus nerve runs from your brain to your heart and gut. It calms storms inside the body. It looks just like a cross. That’s the power source running through us. Every time your body heals, every time your heart slows in prayer, every time peace shows up when it shouldn’t…that’s Him.
Jesus rose on the third day. Science tells us that when you fast for 3 days, your body starts regenerating. Old cells die. New ones are born. Healing begins. Your body literally resurrects itself. That’s not coincidence. That’s design.
And it keeps going.
Your heart has an electrical rhythm. Your brain lights up when you pray. Tears contain different chemicals depending on if you're crying from joy or grief. The blood speaks. The bones store memory. The body worships whether you realize it or not.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are walking prophecy. Walking tabernacles. Dust and divinity in one.
God didn’t just create you. He carved Himself into you.
You don’t need to look far to find Him. You just need to look inward. He’s been in the design since the beginning.
And we wonder why the cost of attending college continues to increase!!!
🚨 WOW. Brown University student Alex Shieh previously EVISCERATED the school's administrators for having a $46 million deficit, despite surging costs for students.
They pay $90K+ PER YEAR.
Alex Shieh: "What about the kids who weren't born on third base?! [...] Brown is on track to run a $46 million DEFICIT this year. WHERE is all the money going?"
"I'll tell you where it's going. It's going into an empire of administrative bloat and bureaucracy! Brown employs 3,805 full time non-instructional staff for just 7,229 undergrads. That's one administrator for every two students."
"This isn't education. This is bloat paid for on the backs of students and families who are mortgaging their futures for a shot at a better life!"
HE'S SPOT-ON.
