The Connecticut Sports scene is defined by UCONN, and ESPN. The big sporting events are UCONN Games and The Travelers Championship/Greater Hartford Open/ whatever. I guess Pilot Penn is a big deal too. Maybe I'll venture to that since I've never been to a tennis match before. I'm not sure I look forward to shaking my head for three hours as I watch a ball go back and forth, but it should be an experience.
When I walked through Gampel Pavilion this week I realized that I think I was born to make Athletics in the State of Connecticut better. My play won't do much. I can't put the state on the map like hometown athletes such as Kristine Lilly could. However, I can do other things to make athletics in the state of Connecticut better. I want us to over shadow New York and New Jersey.
Anyway because my goal is to make our state better known and recognized for our athletic achievements I will set a personal goal of my own for me. As a matter of fact it's not a goal, it will happen. One day I will play in the celebrity Pro Am golf tournament. Mark my words on that one. I will play in it. Not in the near future per se, but I will play in it. Would I consider myself to ever be famous, no. However, having gone there to watch the Pro-Am last year I heard a lot of names that frankly I'd never heard of.
Now that I have seen success in golf for me, and I have a long ways to go, I know that I will be good at it with practice. I want to be good at it. I will be good at it and one day I will play in that Pro-Am, hopefully as the athletic director of UCONN or someone important at ESPN. It might be a long ways away, but it will happen. Mark my words. Anyone who knows me knows that when I say something wild and crazy, or off the cuff, that I often times make it come true.
Speaking of UCONN's Athletic Director, what this we are hearing about his being considered for University of Maryland?
ReplyDeleteWell I know he has some connections to the University of Maryland. I read a blog post about it by Desmond Connor of the Hartford Courant and apparently he worked there and is an alumnus of the school. I know I would jump at the chance to work at UConn, where I went to school. Who knows if our AD would do the same for his school.
ReplyDeleteI don't know of anything but nothing would surprise me. I just don't see the move as him moving up. I don't think Maryland Athletics is better than UCONN Athletics.
I guess with a new school president it might be the best time for a move to happen, that way the new president could choose who they wanted to work with.
If UConn is where you want to be, get your application in now. Keep it updated over the years to come. Hey, you never know.
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