Coach Bill Curry

2/19/2014

A recent guest lecturer was Coach Bill Curry who as a professional football center who snapped the ball to NFL greats Bart Star and John Unitas.  Moreover, he snapped the first ball in Super Bowl I.  His presentation to our cadets was one of the very best we have experienced in the almost five year existence of our character development program.  Having been the head coach at Georgia Tech, Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia State, Coach Curry has experienced all that is good and bad in football and organizational leadership in general.  One of his key points was that as one’s self-discipline goes up, regrets go down.  Of course, the opposite is true.  Someone once said, “No man can become lost on a straight road.”  The straight road is paved with self-discipline, but the crooked road is mired with regret.  The crooked road is when you go places you shouldn’t go with people you shouldn’t be with.  This is good counsel for cadets and us too.