10 Things Requiring NO Talent:
1. Being on time.
2. Work ethic.
3. Effort.
4. Being prepared.
5. Energy.
6. Attitude.
7. Passion.
8. Being coachable.
9. Doing more.
10.Being in the moment.
#UseWhatYouHave
#StrengthFinder
#NoExcuses
28 years ago today, we opened
#ISPSports
. Our competitors had all been in biz 20 years or more before we got started. But our determined, innovative, entrepreneurial team worked hand-in-hand with our partners and completely recreated the college sports media/sponsorship biz.
#WFD
The number of student-athletes who get COVID if they do NOT play fall season will SURELY exceed the number who get it if they do. Most are in best protocol, safest environment they’ve been in since pandemic began. Guardrails go down the moment seasons are canceled.
#FactsNotFear
Restaurants are beginning to open for dine-in service. Some owners and employees are stressed about it.
•Please don’t go and complain about things.
•Please don’t go if you don’t plan to tip.
•Please don’t go and hassle them about new rules.
If you can’t be nice,
#JustStayHome
If you’re asked to wear a mask to work or a store, it’s NOT a political thing. It’s not even to protect you. It’s solely for the potential protection of others. It’s about common courtesy. So only statement you make by NOT abiding such a simple ask is that you’re
#SelfCentered
.
When
@WakeFB
overcomes loss of 5
@NFL
players, is picked last in
@ACCFootball
poll despite going to 4 straight bowl games while dominating in-state competition - and just keeps winning! Then gives you an
@accnetwork
shout-out in postgame celebration. This PROGRAM is
#BuiltToLast
!
Approaching 2 weeks of isolation and by all accounts, it’s just like Vegas in most homes. Losing money by the minute, cocktails acceptable at any hour, and no one know what time it is.
#WheresTheBlackjackTable
?
#LawdHaveMercy
Oh, and in far more important news,
@WakeMBB
beats
@DukeMBB
113-101 tonight in double overtime. As a result, toilet paper manufacturer stock futures are soaring due to demand far outstripping supply as evidenced here.
#BasicEconomics
#GoDeacs
🎩🏀
“I don’t need the vaccine,” they said while enjoying life without polio, tetanus, rubella, measles, whooping cough, mumps, smallpox, diphtheria, rabies, pneumococcal disease, and a bunch of other 1800 and early 1900s diseases.
#PleaseGetVaxxed
7 rules for life
1.Leave your past there!
2.What other people think of you is none of your business!
3.Time heals everything.
4. No one is in charge of your happiness-except you.
5.Don’t compare your life to others.
6.STOP overthinking.
7. Smile and laugh out loud!
#LetGo
#ThenGo
My nephew has 2 Super Bowl tickets, but didn't realize when he bought them last year it was gonna be the same day as his wedding. If you’re interested, he’s looking for someone to take his place.
It’s at St. John's Church @ 3 pm. Her name is Suzi.
#ShellBeTheOneInTheWhiteDress
A recent study found that the average golfer walks about 900 miles a year.
Another independent study found that golfers drink about 22 gallons of alcohol annually.
This means that golfers get about 41 miles per gallon.
#AlmostLikeAHybrid
For the handful of folks complaining (half are
#RussianTrolls
) or giving
@WakeForest
virtually no money, I’m proud of
@WakeFB
players exercising
#FreeSpeech
. Keep your money & crawl back under a rock. I’ll personally cover your measly “contributions” to our program.
#Liberty
🇺🇸🎩
The story to go with this from two days ago.
"We have the right to speak and have our voices heard. You don’t necessarily have to agree, but we deserve that right to speak our voice and speak our mind and have it heard."
16 years ago, this wonderful fellow joined the Sutton family. He’s been a perfect brother & friend to all, most especially
@thetreysutton
&
@addysutton
with whom he celebrated many joys, consoled in moments of sadness. Your job here is done, Toby. Here’s to a life well-lived!
We’ve come a long way. Not as high as we’ll ultimately be, if not this year then in years to come.
@WakeFB
has top 5 facilities in
@theACC
AND
@SEC
, incredible leadership, top tier student-athletic development.
@DemonDeacons
within striking distance of Top 10 programs in America.
Today, we say goodbye to my brother, Michael Brent Sutton. Mike was larger than life! His son Sam was center of his universe. Day before Mike was killed, was living his best life - Sam’s delayed “formal”
@WakeForest
graduation, big
@WakeFB
win, family celebration -
#JOY
was pure!
To the “there are too many bowl games/bowl games don’t matter” crowd, I submit:
•Thousands travel to Tampa for
@SEC
v.
@ACCFootball
matchup between
@MizzouFootball
&
@WakeFB
TWO days before Christmas
•95% of rosters opted IN to play
•
#1
TV rating in USA for December 23
•👀⬇️
Don’t understand reluctance of some southern governors not to require shelter-in-place for next 3 weeks. If you tell people that staying inside for 21 days would save college football season, the entire South would be locked in their homes right now!
#WayOfLife
#GetReligionOnThis
As he was leaving the court following the game, coach found a phone on the floor, handed it to the ref and said “Must be yours.”
Ref asked “What makes you think it’s mine?”
Coach responded, “It has to be. Says you missed 15 calls.”
@MarchMadnessMBB
Just ask
@TCUBasketball
Despite massive evidence to contrary (2nd longest
@ACCFootball
bowl streak, veteran team, top facilities in league, coaching continuity), NO writer in US picked
@WakeFB
in preseason
#Top25
. Yet here we are. Again. 17 minutes of possession
@ArmyWP_Football
, 70 points, 7-0.
#WAKEup
‘
@NCAA
has to manage the “fake injury epidemic” perpetuated by football coaches trying to slow down an opponent’s offensive rhythm. It’s UNSPORTSMANLIKE & UNETHICAL. What the hell are you teaching your kids about life-that cheating & winning at all costs is appropriate behavior?
TOP 10 COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL WIN % (min. 10 games):
1 Marshall .857
2 Utah .773
3 San Jose State .700
4 WAKE FOREST .692
5 Louisiana Tech .682
6 Boise State .667
7 Oklahoma State .655
8 USC .654
9 Ole Miss .639
10 Penn State .638
(credit
@cffmwachsman
)
@WakeFB
#KeepBuilding
Commend
@John_Currie
for his leadership:
•Focused-outside world stayed that way
•Prepared-spectacular shortlist of candidates; thorough, but quick process
•Collaborative-engaged key stakeholders among trustees, faculty,
@WakeMBB
family
•Results-
@DemonDeacons
got a
#baller
Congrats to
@JoeBiden
. Always pull for OUR President, no matter political affiliation or whether I voted for them. Hard enough job as it is - no need to have half of America pulling against you. No
#POTUS
since
@RonaldReagan
has engendered such bipartisan support.
#citizenship
🇺🇸
While I agree that patience is a virtue, I do not necessarily believe that good things will just happen for those who wait. In my experience, good things come to the people who work their ass off and never, ever give up!
#GetAfterIt
Each year, unsuspecting college basketball players make a tragic decision to enter
@NBA
draft in which they have no possibility of being selected on advice of buffoons who’ve manipulated them since they were in middle school. The executive producer of the fraud is
@AAU_Basketball
On
@AmericanAir
jet from DFW to Cali - folks nearby getting a kick out of me playing
@WakeForest
fight song as
@WakeWGolf
wins
@NCAA
⛳️🏆champ! Fellow from St. Louis jokingly deemed me unruly, but gentle reminder of our respective team’s
@GasparillaBowl
result shut that down!
‘
@TeallCapital
is proud to announce acquisition of control interest in
@TailgateGuysUSA
. Grateful for co-founder/chairman
@ParkerDuffey84
’s vision & contributions to TG which will become part of our new gameday experience biz w/ veteran sports exec
@DeweeseRaymond
at helm as CEO!
‘
@RonWellman
is one of the most exceptional leaders in college sports. He has overseen unprecedented success
@DemonDeacons
athletics. Our student-athletes, coaches, fans, university,
@NCAA
and
@theACC
benefited greatly from his steady leadership.
John Currie is truly one of the brightest leaders in college sports. Highly regarded by his peers around
@NCAA
and
@theACC
as one of the most innovative AD’s in college athletics, I know John will bring great vision, incredible energy and passion to the
@WakeForest
@DemonDeacons
!
Never been more bullish about business opportunities in sports. While others may retreat in the face of challenge, our team of entrepreneurs
@TeallCapital
- with decades of experience building successful enterprises - is launching innovative programs to help our partners prosper!
For faculty/students who don’t want to be on campus, NO ONE is FORCING them AND remote learning options abound. But MOST students want to & willing to take risk. Height of arrogance to argue schools shouldn’t try or that students don’t deserve to make choice themselves.
#freedom
Don’t make fun of Southerners when it snows. It’s rare. Sort of like a Northern college winning a national football championship.
#JustMeansMoreDownHereYall
(credit:
@carrieandgc
)
The
#ConstitutionalAmendment
we actually need would set
#TermLimits
. We have an ineffective, tenured
#PoliticalClass
in DC, most of whom classify their job as the best they’ve ever had (NOT the Framers’ intent) & virtually none of whom any of us would hire in our own enterprises!
This young fellow has become my great friend. His enthusiasm is contagious, his attitude always positive. He’s a born leader and winner. When the pride of
@EastCarolina
@HV3_Golf
wins (not if) on
@PGATOUR
, Katy bar the door!
#WeHere
#LetsGo
Complete game victory by
@WakeFB
over
@PackFootball
44-10 today. Big step for a team on the rise, competing AND winning meaningful games in November. More importantly, building sustainability & tradition. Doubters can continue to doubt, but do so at their own peril!
#BuiltToLast
Impossible to describe the enormity of fortified German defenses along the French coast that the Allies had to overcome on D-day and days following. We live in the land of liberty because of the sacrifice our men and women in uniform made 75 years ago and every day since.
#honor
No one in America is more of a capitalist, few have created more jobs or is more ready to jumpstart the economy than me. But be a
#PATRIOT
- cut the crap & quit trying to prove your toughness. Use your brain & practice common courtesy.
#WearAMask
#SocialDistance
#WashYourHands
Football is FAR more difficult program build than hoops. And
@WakeFB
is by every measure TOP
#CollegeFB
program in state past 20 years: ~65% wins vs. NC teams; 10 bowls; only NC program to win
@ACCFootball
.
@WakeMBB
not only can, but WILL achieve similar success!
#UnrivaledByAny
A lesson too many people never seem to learn. There are two basic foundational concepts for a happy life:
1. Use things, not people.
2. Love people, not things.
In 35 years of working in college sports, never known a finer man than Dave Odom.
#CoachOdom
is a championship leader:
•2
@theACC
titles
•3
#NIT
champs
•Won nearly two-thirds of games coached
•Multiple teams in postseason
Best
@WakeMBB
coach in history, deserves this honor!
Another banner is headed to the rafters! Join us on Feb. 19 as Coach Dave Odom will be honored with a banner at the
@LJVMColiseum
!
Odom coached the Deacs from 1990-2001. He amassed 240 wins, won 2 ACC titles and made 8 NCAA appearances!
#GoDeacs
📰-
LOYALTY is:
•UNCOMMON, except among TRUE leaders, GREAT partners and teammates.
•UNCONDITIONAL. You have to give it to earn it.
•UNCOMPROMISING. It never wavers in the face of short-term gain or selfishness.
WINNERS and winning teams BUILT TO LAST have it.
#sticktoitiveness
All-ACC is meant to go to the player who performed best, not the player who enjoyed the most media coverage. This fellow should be first team. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner should be second team. The numbers don’t lie. Neither does the head-to-head match-up.
Here’s the list of players in the last decade with 3100+ yards, 33 TD & 4 or fewer turnovers through 11 games:
John Wolford, Wake
That’s it. That’s the list.
Tough day for
@WakeFB
. It was just 1 game though.
@CoachClawson
is an excellent leader w/experienced staff. Our players love football, want to improve/compete/win. We’re building facilities to help them. Growing a program is hard work, but we’re building it to LAST!
#KeepBuilding
Great privilege to serve as trustee
@WakeForest
, my alma mater. Always reminded of a lesson learned as student & framed so well by alum
#ArnoldPalmer
:
“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.”
#WannaWin
?
#AcceptTheChallenge
Neither HOPE nor PANIC are a strategy. In the markets, politics or sports. Take. A. Breath. Positive fundamentals, measured response, smart planning, expert execution ALWAYS win the day.
#CalmDownPeople
Use the energy you’re directing toward fear & negativity for something good!