College Athletics, Airplanes, and Catholics

I shared a flight this weekend from Cincinnati, OH to South Bend, IN with the Notre Dame golf team. It was so funny, cuz I started text messaging everyone about how I was flying to South Bend and the Notre Dame golf team was on the flight!!

I called my fiance and told her and her response stopped me short, "So? What's the big deal. They're a bunch of kids, half of them probably a few years younger than you." Then it hit me . . . they are a just a bunch of punk kids. Why is it such a big deal. I encounter college athletes everyday - the guys I play with and against. D1 or NAIA we're all living the dream of playing college athletics. It's funny how we don't appreciate it or even realize that we're college athletes until it has almost slipped away from us.

I have about 6-8 weeks left of being a college athlete. Next time I board a plane I'm going to assume that the guy who is sitting next to me and texting is writing this, "I'm on a plane with a college baseball player . . . I'll tell you all about it later!"