Amazing how long one's younger glory days can shine on in one's head but once you get older you realize you'll never be in as good of shape as you were when you were in your teens and 20s.  I had some really good role models as coaches growing up, Jabo was a classic.  He plopped me into JV as a freshman since I was a 'neighborhood kid' and had seen myself hauling our massive 5 person aluminacraft canoe down to the local lake on my own with a set of wheels, he lived a half block away from my dad's place.