1st few weeks…

            Michael moved up to Brinkley on Saturday, March 26 with his truck, clothes, and a mattress, while I stayed here to finish out my school year. Needless to say, I can’t wait until June 3 so that I can move up there full time. I hate being apart from him, but we decided that we wouldn’t go longer than 2 weeks without seeing each other so it makes it a little more manageable. Gracie and my night light are keeping me sane at night all by myself. And, he has it much worse off that I do. He was originally planning on staying at his parent’s house, but after commuting an hour each way to the school, he decided to move into an empty trailer of his uncles in Clarendon. Only about a 10 minute commute. Clarendon is Brinkley’s big rival, so Michael is keeping under wraps about living there for the moment. Poor guy only has a mattress lying on the floor with no TV or Internet, so he pretty much works every minute of the day. He says he hasn’t stopped moving and the whole town is just amazed at this new young coach coming it with all this energy.

            First on Michael’s agenda was to clean out the field house. If you don’t know, Michael is a bit of an organizational freak. So walking into this old field house, with absolutely no organization, just frustrated him. Thankfully his parents live fairly close so they came up to help him clean (thanks guys) and take inventory of what he already had and what he still needed. I didn’t get to see the field house before, but the after sure looks good. He’s done a great job organizing, cleaning, and ordering all kinds of stuff for this new and improved program.

            The first day Michael was there, he met with the team, talked about his expectations, etc and then said “get changed and meet me in the weight room”. He said all the kids just stared at him until one finally said, “Coach, we don’t have anything to change in to.” Michael found out that they have been working out in their school uniforms instead of workout clothes. First thing Michael bought… workout clothes. Just with that little purchase, he was their hero.

            If you can imagine, Michael’s environment has changed dramatically. He’s coming from Hebron High School with 3 freshman teams, 2 JV teams and 60+ kids on the Varsity squad, to having 25 high school kids trying out for 1 team. Not to mention that HHS had about 15 coaches on the sideline every game to Michael’s coaching staff consisting of 3 other guys. Regardless, Michael is loving being the boss. Especially that he’s the youngest guy on staff and gets to tell other people what to do. Not to mention that there is a rumor that the new football coach is HOT and all the girls want to know how old Coach Sain is to see if they have a chance.