This Week in Sports
June 5, 2008
It’s been a busy week for sports in our household.
On Monday and Tuesday I was at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, with my older son, Andrew, who was participating in the Darrin Slack Quarterback Academy (DSQA). I’ve been impressed with DSQA for a few years, but for a couple reasons this was the first year Andrew was able to participate.
A few things stood out. From a football standpoint, DSQA does an outstanding job teaching young men to throw a football. And it is not just the biomechanics of throwing a ball. DSQA opens the door to the mental part of the game. They teach the players to read the defenses and what to do verses diffferent coverages. And they have developed a whole new reading system for the QB that is… well, revolutionary. It is called R4, and it is better than anything I was taught at the University of Tennessee.
But more important than the football skills, Coach Slack makes no bones about his view that becomming a responsible man is far more important that anything ever accomplished on the football field. While not overtly spiritual, Slack’s faith is evident. His passion is to devlop young men and future leaders through football. And he teaches and exudes the character consistent with godliness.
While this is probably not pertinet to most of you, if you have a young aspiring QB around you, I cannot recommend DSQA highly enough for him.
And today both of my sons began participating in a program called The First Tee. First Tee was created in 1997 byt the World Golf Foundation, and is sponsored by USGA, PGA, and LPGA, among others. The program is designed around nine core values of golf in order to introduce both golf skills and life skills children and teens. Today was the first day First Tee of Tennessee has been in the Tri Cities.
A wise and successful businessman once offered his philosophy. He said: “I told my sons they can play any team sports they want, but they have to learn two lifetime sports.” That stuck with me. So I am delighted my sons are learning golf.
