@HenryUsher tip of the cap to you and your family. Jordan is a helluva player and even better man (I don't presume to know him personally, but from everything we have seen and anecdotal stories floating around staff and people close to the program he is a consummate professional).
I will miss the off the court stuff (UshTV) and on the court heroics like the above video, or his diving play on the ball late last night. Sometimes we as fans forget how lucky we are to have athletes and coaches that don't do anything that make it hard to root for them.
I have been frustrated (as I am sure you and the team have too) at how the season went, some of the sets we ran and bounces of the ball. Through it all though your son, and his teammates, have done the work on the court and in the classroom to represent the best of what we can be. I am truly sorry some of the internet warriors we have around here show us the worst we can be.
I am often reminded of the great Teddy (not Valentine)'s speech when reading this board:
"Let the man of learning, the man of lettered leisure, beware of that queer and cheap temptation to pose to himself and to others as a cynic, as the man who has outgrown emotions and beliefs, the man to whom good and evil are as one. The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes second to achievement...
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. "
Jordan recently talked about becoming a man here at GT. Hats off to him and know he will have a network of ardent supporters in this world wo stand ready to support, encourage and celebrate him in his life.
