That's a big part of what led me to follow them in the first place. And their capacity and accomplishments as coaches and leaders are noteworthy. I'm sure those coaches and leaders in the North who snubbed me are all "good guys" who love their families. While getting rejected is never fun, getting ignored feels a whole lot worse. Consequently, I'd rather be rejected than ignored. One of the things I have learned through my entrepreneurial experiences is that getting rejected is preferable to getting ignored.īecause a rejection still acknowledges your existence but getting ignored makes you feel like a non-entity, which is a viscerally demeaning and enervating experience. Uncanny, isn't it? It sometimes seems as though the hospitality in the North mirrors Midwest mercury in January! Despite these gratis gifts and numerous hard copy letters and emails, I never heard back from a head coach or athletic director at either university up north.Īnd even more fascinating is the fact that one northern coach actually sent me a nice card in response to a previous query I had sent him back in 2006 during his time coaching at a different school that was deep in the South, yet he failed to extend the same courtesy after moving north to coach a different team. Second, in addition to sending dozens of combined letters and emails to coaches and leaders at this school over the course of the entire year (2020), I also sent FOUR of my SAL Textbooks, which set my own wallet back several hundred dollars.Īnd the SAL Textbooks are no exception. More recently, I experienced an outgrowth of this phenomenon in my outreaches to leaders and coaches in college athletics. If you include Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern Utah- a college professor of mine once rightly remarked that Utah is, in some ways, a displaced Southern State-I have lived in the Southern States for most of my life and therefore have a pretty good understanding of what Southern Hospitality is all about. Georgia, in particular, will always be " On my Mind" because it was in the Peach State that I met my best friend, the love of my life, and the mother of our three (3) children. I have visited and traveled extensively throughout every Southern State, and the whole region has a special place in my heart. And I've been blissfully enjoying lovely "Green Christmases" in South Florida ever since! Getting to live in the South and meeting Lina have been two of the greatest blessings of my life to date. Lina was living in Atlanta at the time to study mechanical engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech). It turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made because it was there-in Atlanta, Georgia-deep in the heart of the South that I met my beautiful, intelligent, and talented wife, Lina, who was from even farther south. I may hail from Southern Utah, which is like the South in some ways, but I had never heard anything like that Kentucky woman's country drawl! The experience left an indelible impression on my little 11-year old mind and heart.ĭad explained to me that muggy August night back in 1991 that the waitress's attitude and demeanor was emblematic of "Southern Hospitality." As far as I can remember, that was the first time I had ever heard the term Southern Hospitality and I would never forget it!
Our waitress was one of the kindest, sweetest, and most friendly people I had ever met.
One of the most memorable events of that trip involved eating supper one evening at a diner deep in the heart of Kentucky.
It was the first time I had ever been east of the Mississippi, and the first time I ever saw the Atlantic Ocean.
The song is sung by Ameritz Karaoke Entertainment.When I was a little boy, age 11, my dad, grandpa, and older sister and I took a cross-country road trip from the Intermountain West to the eastern United States and back. Sweet Southern Comfort (In the Style of Buddy Jewell) Karaoke Version song from album Karaoke (In the Style of Buddy Jewell) is released in 2012. Listen to Ameritz Karaoke Entertainment Sweet Southern Comfort (In the Style of Buddy Jewell) Karaoke Version MP3 song.
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