Coach Kenny Roark Has Passed Away

My friend Kenny Roark has passed away.  He was 54.  Please remember his wife, Teresa and their two children, Ashley and Chase in your prayers.

Kenny was a great friend and if he ever met a stranger, I missed it.  Despite his success as a player and coach, he was a very humble and down to earth guy.  The man would quite literally give you the shirt off his back if you needed it.  There is a long line of players and coaches who are better for knowing him, and I'm glad to say that I had the opportunity to become friends with him during my time at Middlesboro.

My memory of him will be this:  He was a man who loved his friends and family... and believed in keeping them close and enjoying the time he had together with them.  I guess he knew exactly what I'm feeling now - that time is indeed too damned short.

He will be missed.








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Veersite Is On-Hold Indefinitely

I will not be monitoring or adding to this site for the foreseeable future.  I also will not be replying to emails.  This is mostly due to a family illness. I’m also very tired of dealing with ever-increasing hassle of staying in coaching.   Lately I’ve seen too many quality coaches be replaced with men of lesser integrity and ability and I’m not digging the thoughts going to war with ‘em. 

I simply don’t need the hassle badly enough to put up with the bull at present.

I will try to fix the video links sometime in the near future but after that i have no plans to add content to Veersite.

You are welcome to use anything you find here.  I hope it helps.

Sincerely,

Steve Smith 8/15/11

Game Footage

Several years ago I decided to use Google Video to store the clips I use on Veersite. My thought process was simple - Google is one of the "800 pound gorillas" of the Internet, right? My videos will be there for as long as Google was around... probably a long, long time.

Wrong.

Google bought Youtube and before you know it they won't accept new video uploads to Google Video. However, Google infused a lot of cash and upgrades to Youtube, reducing it's Suck Quotient and making it a more attractive host for video content. At least for me.

Well, according to Google, all video content hosted on it's old Google Video servers will cease to be available on April 29. That's a few weeks from today.

I will do my best to fix the clips so that they remain available without interruption on Veersite.

However, I have no timetable on when this will happen except that it will be in the next 3 weeks.

So if you click on a video link in the next few weeks and it doesn't work - don't worry. In a matter of a few weeks the situation should be resolved.

Coach Smith

Note: As I feared, the web filter at work blocks access to Google Video and I have no other access to high-speed internet for another 2 weeks. This may take a while.

2011 Georgia Southern University Spring Coaches Clinic

Spring is almost here and that means…

CLINIC TIME!

Georgia Southern is having their annual Coach’s Clinic April 1st and 2nd on the beautiful GSU campus in Statesboro, GA.

Coming off a great 10 – 5 playoff season, Coach Monken and his staff proved that the triple option is truly the heart and soul of GSU football – and you’ll not find a better venue to improve as a spread option coach.

At the GSU Coach’s Clinic you’ll find a staff that’s taken a program in trouble, installed the option, and in a single season and blasted GSU back as a frontrunner in the Southern Conference. The GSU coaching staff will have plenty of sage advice to help your program implement the explosive GSU option offense and stingy GSU defense!

Nuff Said. Clear out your schedule for the first week of April and prepare to learn from men who have “been there, done that, and bought the tee shirt.”

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Brochure 2011
2011 Supplement

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Coach Smith

An Interesting Diversion...

I found a site here that produces "Word Clouds" from text. (gotta pass this on the the English Department!) Anyway, it's kind of fun gauging the content of the text simply by looking at a graphical representation using the words used.

My last two posts on Veersite got the word cloud treatment below.

As a fun aside I took a word cloud of the Presidential speech last night and compared it to Patton's speech to the Third Army on June 5th 1944. Terminology has changed since WWII.

Like I said... and interesting diversion.

Patton's Speech... which in my opinion is the best speech I've read concerning the matter.

Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Men, all this stuff you’ve heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball player, the toughest boxer. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

Now, an Army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.

We have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit and the best men in the world. You know, by God I actually pity those poor bastards we’re going up against. By God, I do. We’re not just going to shoot the bastards, we’re going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel.

Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.

Now there’s another thing I want you to remember. I don’t want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We’re not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose.

There’s one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you’re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what did you do in the great World War II, you won’t have to say, "Well, I shoveled shit in Louisiana."

Alright now, you sons-of-bitches, you know how I feel. Oh, and I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle – anytime, anywhere.

That’s all.