Still looking…

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Well, I feel like a slacker, but I’m still looking for a new church home after I resigned in late May from my position on IBC staff.

I visited Taylor’s Valley Baptist today. I enjoyed it. It was a nice service with a mix of hymns and newer praise songs. And they still had an organ. Props to them.

Bill Muske filled in this morning and did a great job preaching on prayer.

I hear their singles group is pretty good. And its mainly led by the singles (go figure – a Sunday School class led by the members in the class – wait am I being cynical). So maybe I’ll try and make it to Sunday School there after we get back from North Carolina, or I might try and go to their weekly Bible study tomorrow night.
We’ll see how work goes tomorrow.

Well, back to napping or reading the Morning News or whatever I was doin before I fell asleep.

UMHB edges Texas Lutheran

UMHB QB Andy Padrone looks for open field against the Louisianna College Wildcats last year. UMHB will hit the road and head to Louisianna College again this year.
Well, looks like God was a Baptist (again) yesterday….

UMHB FOOTBALL EDGES TEXAS LUTHERAN 28-21
Belton, TX – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor football team fought off three turnovers and a challenge from an upstart Texas Lutheran team as the Crusaders posted a 28-21 victory over the Bulldogs Saturday night in Belton. The second-ranked Crusaders improve to 2-0 overall and 1-0 in American Southwest Conference play with the victory. The loss drops Texas Lutheran to 0-2 overall and 0-1 in the ASC. The game was played in front of a UMHB record crowd of 6,438.
Texas Lutheran drew first blood after UMHB turned the ball over on each of its first two offensive possessions. Sean Salinas hit Jason Trahan with a 20-yard TD pass to cap an 11-play, 80-yard drive at the 7:28 mark of the first quarter. UMHB came back to tie the game on a 61-yard touchdown pass from Josh Welch to P.J. Williams just over four minutes later. The Crusaders stretched the lead on second quarter touchdown runs from Andy Padron and Justin Bryson to make it 21-7 with 2:52 left in the first half. TLU would cut it to 21-14 on a 23-yard pass from Salinas to Trahan with just 50 seconds left to play before halftime. The Bulldogs tied the game on a six-yard scoring strike from Salinas to Darrell White with 2:21 to play in the third quarter and both teams traded punts before UMHB scored what proved to be the game winner on Bryson’s eight-yard touchdown run with 13:50 left in the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs would have two more possessions but the Crusaders forced punts on both and ran out the final 3:16 of the game to seal the victory.
Williams caught three passes for 125 yards and a TD for the Crusaders. Padron ran for 60 yards and a score and threw for 96 more yards. Bryson also had 60 yards and a pair of touchdowns and tied Chad Starnes school record with 35 total TD’s in his career. Salinas was 24-37 passing for TLU for 272 yards and three touchdowns but he also threw two costly interceptions. Trahan caught five passes for 109 yards for the Bulldogs and Dexter Brewer ran for 48 yards on 11 carries to lead the TLU rushing attack. The Bulldogs ran 76 offensive plays for 362 yards of total offense while the Crusaders managed 357 yards of offense on 59 plays. UMHB also turned the ball over three times and was penalized nine times for 61 yards. Josh Kubiak had a game-high 12 tackles for UMHB and Jerrell Freeman added 11 more. Jake Dearing had 12 stops for the Bulldogs.
UMHB will travel to Pineville, Louisiana next Saturday for a 2:00 PM kickoff at Louisiana College (0-2, 0-1 ASC). Texas Lutheran will return home for a 6:00 PM kickoff against McMurry University (2-0, 1-0 ASC).

Want to travel

I’ve been enjoying this Woven and Spun blog lately, because its normally a bunch of random pictures.
And with the help of Photoshop a couple of friends took a whirlwind trip around the world.
Lots of fun.
And so in the spirt of Photoshop, here’s a couple doo-dads Roll-Dog and I did in college.
They’re our wrestling promo posters.
Or so we say.



(when college students have too much free time)

What a change

After Mike and I have talked this week about the future of print media (newspapers in particular) we began thinking about the future and how our company can succeed.

He had an interesting meeting with a client who pretty much told him, they (as well as others in their industry) don’t even consider newspapers a valid place to advertise in their market.

“I don’t read. And neither do our customers. If we want information we watch it on the news or grab it off the internet.”

So in an effort to re-focus some things, I’ve refocused myself on the paper’s website today and tonight.

I’ve been piecing together a hopefully decent database driven site.

I was able to post the entire A section of our paper online in approx. 12 minutes today, where I was spending 30-45 for the same amount of news in Belton.

It’s not quite where I want it yet — but the times are a changing.

Belton’s Quincy Daniels

Quincy Daniels in a UMHB Crusader uniform | Photo from UMHB.edu

From the AP:

Good as Belton’s Quincy Daniels has become, he’ll never be Ramonce Taylor.
Which is entirely intentional.
After rushing for 515 yards and nine touchdowns in just two games, Daniels understands why so many reflexively link him to his predecessor. Especially since it was only two season ago that Taylor – now a prominent tailback and kick returner for Texas – carried Belton to the playoffs with similarly staggering numbers.

UPDATE: Quincy went on to play college ball for UMHB. Taylor played a year at the University of Texas and scored a touchdown in the National Championship game his freshman year. Over the summer Taylor was accused of drug abuse and was suspended from the team.

Quincy is about to begin his final season of football at UMHB as he starts on his Masters degree…

Jon Wallin – SID
2/8/2010 9:34:15 AM

Belton, TX – University of Mary Hardin-Baylor running back Quincy Daniels will return for another season with the Cru football team in 2010 the senior from Belton announced on Friday. Daniels will graduate in May, but he has one more year of eligibility remaining after receiving a medical hardship after a knee injury cost him the final 12 games of the 2008 season. Daniels will enroll in graduate school at UMHB and begin work on his Master’s Degree this fall and return for one more season with the Cru.

“In my mind, I was feeling like I was done with football,” Daniels said. “But I thought about it and prayed about and then it became an easy decision. I am at peace with this decision and God has provided for me to continue my education.”

Daniels rushed for 982 yards and 14 touchdowns last season despite missing two full games. He also caught five passes for 78 yards and earned First Team American Southwest Conference All-Conference honors and was a D3football.com Second Team All-South Region selection. Daniels is a three-time ASC Academic All-Conference pick and earned a spot on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI First Team.

“He’s the best recruit we’ve gotten all year,” Cru head coach Pete Fredenburg said. “I wanted him to get away from football for a while and really have time to think about his decision and that’s just what he did. He has a great opportunity to continue his education and earn his Master’s Degree and that is just going to help him be more successful in life.”

Daniels has 2,769 career rushing yards and he ranks fourth on the UMHB all-time list in that category. He has 36 rushing touchdowns in his career and is only five rushing TD’s away from tying the UMHB and ASC record of 41 set by Jarvis Thrasher. Daniels also has a receiving touchdown and a kickoff return for a score in his career and he has rolled up 3,259 all-purpose yards.

The Cru went 10-2 last season and earned a share of a fifth straight ASC Championship. UMHB advanced to the NCAA Division III National Championships for the sixth straight season before falling to Linfield College in the Second Round. The Cru has posted a 49-9 overall record in Daniels’ four years on campus, winning four ASC titles and advancing to a pair of National Semifinal games in that time.