I wish I could give you some noble reason for why I have not visited this space for over two months. I wish I could tell you that I have been doing something heroic like fighting pirates or working on a stimulus bill for college students.
Instead I can only say that I have not been disciplined enough to be consistent on doing this blog. Our student-athletes have given me plenty to write about; I simply haven’t made the time.
I wish I could write about our baseball team heading to the final round of the conference tournament. Unfortunately the Cowboys season came to a close on another windy day at Hunter Field on Saturday. I have never seen a baseball season at HSU where the south wind was as consistent as it was this year. Years ago we had an assistant coach who had the following theory on the jet stream at Hunter Field. He believed that the south wind would slow down when it hit the Mabee Complex, then build back up and grow even stronger as it blew thru Shelton Stadium and into Hunter Field. This individual was also our pitching coach, so perhaps his theory was built more on a feeling instead of aerodynamic research.
One thing I have been working on over the last several weeks is a student-athlete experience evaluation that we are distributing to all of our athletic teams. Our coaches and I hope this will give our students the opportunity to let us know what we are doing well and what we need to improve on. After our students have completed the survey, I will visit with our coaching staff to evaluate the results. The survey should give us some direction on what we need to work on for the upcoming school year.
With the summer break coming up, many of our students will be heading home. I hope they will stay in contact with us thru our website as we are looking at several new options for the upcoming school year. Maybe they will not be as big a stranger to our website as I have been to the blog for the last two months.
Cowboy Up.
John Neese
