This was me in February 2020. This was the bottom for me…
It was my birthday.
We had just lost what felt like the 200th game in 2 years… It was the 3rd to last game I ever coached ‘professionally’.
Previous to that game, I’d been through:
Recruiting players in Offseason #1 without a logo, team name or confirmed arena to play in… The City Board thought it was a bad idea to bring us in that summer… Turns out, they weren’t wrong, but they eventually approved us so we could prove them right:
2 player arrests.
1 player cut for threatening to shoot up a school.
1 player cut for smoking weed in his billet house.
1 player cut for who knows what…
Most players not paying their Pay to Play contractual obligation… Which meant I didn’t get paid.
8500 in a maxed-out credit card because of the reason above…
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