tadman95
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Last night our local high school team, the Mount Airy Bears, played their first round playoff game against Central Academy of Technology and Arts. Mount Airy has a young man, Austin, with certain shortcomings, who plays running back and has played a hand full of plays through the season.
In the 4th quarter and Mt. Airy leading 41-14, Austin was put in as Mt. Airy was running out the clock. Austin ran the ball a couple of plays to everyone's cheers. Central Academy's coach Tad Baucum seeing this, called time out.
Since the game was running long and it was a little cold, I was frankly a little irritated that he was calling time out. After the time out, Austin ran the ball again except this time I noticed the Central players seemed to be letting Austin run a little further than his skills would allow and was tackled out of bounds on the 15-20 yard line.
Again Tad Baucum called time out and called his team over to the side line. On the final play of the game, Austin took the hand off and running off of right tackle, the Central players made valiant efforts to appear to be trying to tackle him. Austin scored his first career touchdown as everyone went crazy!
With the final whistle, both teams formed the traditional hand shake line and then something different happened. Both teams formed a circle at the 50 yard line, knelt in prayer, then cheered as Austin was given the game ball and named player of the game.
What I find extraordinary is the Central coach did this without being prompted by the Mt. Airy coaches. He recognized what was going on and did this. This was a playoff game, the last game of the year for Central, and the last game of the careers of their seniors. It was cold, it was a long game and he did it anyway.
I think Central's coach understands life, and I think his players do now also.
Tad Baucum is getting IE "REPS" from me as father, as a fan.
In the 4th quarter and Mt. Airy leading 41-14, Austin was put in as Mt. Airy was running out the clock. Austin ran the ball a couple of plays to everyone's cheers. Central Academy's coach Tad Baucum seeing this, called time out.
Since the game was running long and it was a little cold, I was frankly a little irritated that he was calling time out. After the time out, Austin ran the ball again except this time I noticed the Central players seemed to be letting Austin run a little further than his skills would allow and was tackled out of bounds on the 15-20 yard line.
Again Tad Baucum called time out and called his team over to the side line. On the final play of the game, Austin took the hand off and running off of right tackle, the Central players made valiant efforts to appear to be trying to tackle him. Austin scored his first career touchdown as everyone went crazy!
With the final whistle, both teams formed the traditional hand shake line and then something different happened. Both teams formed a circle at the 50 yard line, knelt in prayer, then cheered as Austin was given the game ball and named player of the game.
What I find extraordinary is the Central coach did this without being prompted by the Mt. Airy coaches. He recognized what was going on and did this. This was a playoff game, the last game of the year for Central, and the last game of the careers of their seniors. It was cold, it was a long game and he did it anyway.
I think Central's coach understands life, and I think his players do now also.
Tad Baucum is getting IE "REPS" from me as father, as a fan.
