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The 2024 Blog Recap
For 2023, that’s here…and if you follow the links, you can go all the way back to the start.
2024 didn’t see as much written for a number of reasons. First was that the Dietz Foundation was pretty busy. After that, it was a different writing project–trying to write a poem each day using specific forms…and then, having taken a full-time job to boot as a D2 VB coach.
Another large one is that while I like writing about history and politics–politics is exhausting because few people want to learn, fewer still want to consider the possibility that they could be wrong or that decisions that were once good are now bad–or vice-versa.
Related to that–I’ll make posts public and then people argue based on the post photo or title, never actually reading what I wrote but insisting they know what I meant. That is tiring to deal with.
The last one is the one that sucks–I always try (and will always remain) open about what I believe and sharing the path I’ve taken in life. The past eighteen months (the past five especially) use that in various ways to try and damage either the Foundation or the program I coach. I am indescribably sad about that though I know it says much more about those people than it does about me. In any event–2024’s posts:
Coaching and Military IdealsCoaching Staff Transitions and the USMCJohn Boyd, Iconoclasm, and the OODA LoopPeople, Ideas, Hardware–in that orderYou can ‘be’ or you can ‘do’
Volleyball Coaching and OfficiatingThinking in a Different BoxEar Damage–We Need Earplugs NOWSolutions for Ear Damage in VolleyballLeadership QuotesFestivus for the VB Coaches/Refs in usObservations from ‘The Other Side’The Shortage of Officials–Fixing ItVB Reffing–Coaches Need Better EducationI Get Why There’s a Shortage of RefereesThoughts on Fixing the Officials ShortageHonor Calls: Pros and ConsA Coach’s Responsibility is to This YearThe End of TournamentsMore is LessA Brand New Day (July 1)Serve-Receive Eval…5-4-1-0 isn’t quite correct, eitherRevision to the Revision of the Revised Serve-Receive valuesBall Handling Rule Change RamificationsLessons from Year 1 Coaching D2The Portal
Personal and Family MemoriesThe Hill Behind My Grade SchoolKent and the 1981 Mt. Dew IncidentFamily Memory (XL): It’s Not Cold, It’s BriskFamily Memory (XLI): Pipe in Music at WorkHow I Met Your MotherFamily Memory (XLII): Papa’s Answers to a SurveyFamily Memory (XLIII): Escape to ColditzFamily Memory (XLIV): The GraveyardFamily Memory (XLV): Thanksgiving GravyFamily Memory (XLVI) How Did He KnowFamily History (XLVII) = Mom’s 45sFamily History (XLVIII) Don’t Mess with My Mom
Iowa StateIowa State: May, 1988: Mayan, dry ice, and Max’s ShowerIowa State: Steve and the Freshman Chemistry CurveIowa State: Paul Gets a Turkey FirstIowa State: Soviet PoliSci class #1
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