Peter Buck

There already kind of was one, but a lot don't listen.

I feel i have waxed on this subject and my frustration with it a good bit over the years. Maybe some of the younger guys can help with this new peer thing, but young athletes have a hard time visualizing not being an athlete until it is too late a lot of the time. It is a massive blow to ones self esteem when you realize it.

it is not just the attention... it is ones perceived self worth... which has been built up over ones lifetime as related to sports prowess. When it ends.. it ends abruptly for most. Even if you are smart enough to see it coming, you are not prepared the psychological blow. Eventually, you put that energy into something else. Sometimes, the energy is drinking, sometimes, it is a career...

To an Athlete Dying Young
BY A. E. HOUSMAN
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.

Sic transic gloria.........

I really don't have the heart to dig into Richt's network of helping players...

What are some success and failure stories of former players after their football careers that stand out in your mind?

I knew a guy who was a bricklayer on a construction crew for a while after high school. He laid bricks side by side in the Georgia heat with a high-profile college and pro football star.

Won't say his name. I think he did it more because he just likes to work hard though than really needing the job....

Kim Stevens

Supposedly, the Fridge can lay two blocks with one hand