Thanks, Joe. Your presentation in total says a lot about you as well. Ash could not have had a finer representation. I have a renewed respect for Ash in general, and for a particular angle on what he has done and how he handled things. It's this: A part of me a week ago pondered if he should have ever come back. With the risks, it took away from the team building such as Swoopes for the spring and all summer. Hence, maybe selfish of him. But.... take that another way. In this age of entitlement from recruiting (switched commits, late grandstanding commits) and lack of full commitment once on board... and so on.... here is David Ash showing what it means to truly want to play, and to truly want to play for and be a part always of a particular program. So I'm fine for him, more than fine for him, and for the game, for what he has said about the game... in the way he has represented, as an individual and a team player, what it means to honor a program and a school. And the game of football. He really wanted it. He really did. Often we wonder just how much a player really wants it: spelled, how much does a player appreciate it. Boy did he show it. With character. That part about the tears.... that he cried. I mean really cried. Boy... how many in life, want even life that badly at times. Appreciate every single thing in life that much. That makes him extremely special. And worth everything to have demonstrated that. And it was pure and from the heart. Hook'em David
Great kid. He'll be missed on the field, but, thank God, he should enjoy a long, successful, healthy life. Correct decision.
I hate it when people (in this case Prop Joe and David) make me cry at work - anytime for that matter. But then I stop and think what it is about what they said, and the circumstances around why they said it, and I feel as good as I think it's possible for a person to feel. Thanks, Prop Joe, and David.
