I haven’t blogged in a while, but I wanted to close this trio of entries highlighting Smash’s challenge to fulfill his potential and walk into his destiny. If you haven’t read the other two blogs you can check the first one out here and then the second here.
So after an hour we find Coach Taylor and Smash on the sideline of Texas A&M waiting for Smash’s tryout that, unfortuanately, will not be able to happen today. The contact person attempts to reschedule Smash’s tryout with Coach Taylor but learns quickly that this is not acceptable. Coach risks embarrassment (and burning a professional contact) and walks on the field and lays it all out to the head coach of Texas A&M to make sure Smash gets his tryout. Coach Taylor vouches for Smash like only a Father would do for a son. When Smash is allowed to tryout, Coach Taylor tells him about a game where Smash laid everything on the line and played like there was no tomorrow. He tells Smash that he has to play like that now. He believes in him.
Throughout these past three episodes, although Smash’s journey to his future and destiny have been the main focus, it is Coach Taylor’s mentoring that has been truly inspirational. His wife makes a remark to him that he is more than a coach and a teacher, he is a “molder of men”.
The thing I appreciate the most is that he is not trying to mold people into who he is, but he is helping them find their true potential and guide them into what they are to be. Coach Taylor sees the best in them and wants his players to rise up and take what belongs to them, their destiny.
I know this is a TV show. But I get excited about the ramifications of true mentoring.
Leaders who put their balls on the line to activate something bigger than them in someone else.
I want to be that for my son and daughter. I want to be that for others. I want someone to be that for me.
A Catalyst.
A Guide.
A Friend.
Oh, by the way, Smash did get the call back from Texas A&M and was on his way to College at the end of the show. Unfortuantely that was his last show, save a cameo every now and then.
