My 2006 Year
My 2006 Year Highlights
2006 Spring Break family cruise to Mexico
Trip to Dubai and 1st time to India?
Family Birthdays
Marva in Sugarland Texas
Much of my spare time was involved with Caveman Youth Football. 2005 was the NYFL fiasco year and for 2006 we organized UCFC. The Utah County Football Conference. It took more time that I ever imagined but it worked well for years after. We created Caveman Youth Football to align the youth program with the highschool program to enhance the program years down the road. Salt Lake County was doing this for decades and we belived it was one reason High School football in Salt Lake county was on average a higher level of play. State Championships don’t lie. So the area Club teams, the AF Redskins, the AF Colts, the Alpine Bears, the Lehi Pioneers, The Cedar Hills Falcons, all ended and were alined with their High School teams. The other hugh change was the A and B team (AF Black or Red teams) organization. While it may have its problems, many B team players developed in that enviroment and played high school football later. While deleting emails recently, I forgot how much work and time was involved. Dumping the NYFL dumpster fire from 2005 and then starting an entire new program was monumental in retrospect. Equipment, Fields, Refs, City cooperation, etc. Bylaws were written. Rules created. We created a program that seems to have done well. Now part of the larger Utah Youth Football Conference, largely a Utah County Conference. Great people like 1st four UCFC board members and respective district presidents: Brad Jenkins (PG), Robert Schimer Lone Peak), Michelle Smith (Lehi City), Bryce Flannery and many, many coaches and voulenteers and the parents made the 1st season in 2006 a graeat sucess. While I served, and yes served as no one was paid a dime from the UCFC. Caveman Youth football did not pay or give coaches any discounts or remuneration. All of the founders do so at great personal expence of time or coin. 10 years later, I often thought the time I spent could have been easily traded for an MBA or a startup business but now almost 20 years later I have few regrets.
I came across an email I replied to in 2006 as the head coach for the 6th grade team. The mom was concerned about her son and the offensive head coach being hard on him. I replied with the names changed here. This email shows the results of the newer more competative program Caveman Youth Football fostered.
Hi “Parent”, Thanks for your feedback. Some kids are having a hard time at their positions and the coaches are asking them to do better. “Player” is our starting right tackle and we expect him to know and exicute his assignemnts. I think player will do fine, but I am sure he feels the pressure of knowing, like ALL THE PLAYERS, he is evaluated on every play. If any player misses an assignment they hear about it. It will be this way from this age up. We are trying to be more positive at practice, looking for them doing a
great job. But we expect them to do that; the mistakes are easy to see and we take steps to correct them. No offense can work unless all the players do their job every play. Last year we did not score many touchdowns. My son Ben pointed out to me yesterday, that if a player only makes one mistake in ten,
and everyone does that in turn, one mental mistake on each play, you’ll never have any plays run properly. Ideally, everyone must do their job, or at least KNOW their job every time. They may not execute perfectly, but if they know what they are expected to do, and do their best, we’ll be OK.
Part of what is different this year is that we acutally have coaches that know the blocking assignements. I can not say for certain, but last year I got the feeling that coaches did not know blocking assignents, so they did not coach the boys about missing them. After all, they did not know themselves. These boys are older and smarter about football and we believe they can do it.
You can reinforce that by telling him that football requires great mental focus and knowledge. The days of big slow dumb linemen are in the past; these boys and all linemen have to know defensive formations and make quick decisions together as a team on the line. They also know that if they will not do their jobs, we will be forced to have someone else do it. In plan english, they lose their starting position. From this age forward, there will always be someone who wants their position because of the numbers of
kids in football programs. Let him know we have confidence that he can do it, or he would be replaced by now.
I do know too that coach “Coach” feels a lot of pressure to deliver wins, and I expect that things will ease up a bit after we get into the season and things look good. Keep me posted on his attitude. Michael.
est regards,
Emirates
Trip Itinerary for 1 travellers
Booking reference number CT7SBJ
New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK), United States to Dubai (DXB), United Arab Emirates
Flight number – EK204, Class – Economy, Flight routing – Non-stop
Departs 31 May 06 9:40 am New York John F Kennedy International Airport
Arrives 01 Jun 06 6:30 am Dubai
Dubai (DXB), United Arab Emirates to Delhi (DEL), India
Flight number – EK512, Class – Economy, Flight routing – Non-stop
Departs 08 Jun 06 10:25 pm Dubai
Arrives 09 Jun 06 3:00 am Delhi
Delhi (DEL), India to Dubai (DXB), United Arab Emirates
Flight number – EK513, Class – Economy, Flight routing – Non-stop
Departs 11 Jun 06 4:15 am Delhi
Arrives 11 Jun 06 6:10 am Dubai
Dubai (DXB), United Arab Emirates to New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK), United States
Flight number – EK201, Class – Economy, Flight routing – Non-stop
Departs 11 Jun 06 8:30 am Dubai
Arrives 11 Jun 06 2:40 pm New York John F Kennedy International Airport
Total fare for all travellers (including taxes):
U.S. Dollars (USD) 1241.67
Assuming that you have more endurance then I do, we could do it this way –
June 9th. Arrive Delhi early am. Greeted at the airport and transferred to your hotel (booked through the 8th if you want to be able to check in before noon). At leisure till 11 am.
A half day city tour of Old Delhi – duration about four hours – The tour of Old Delhi includes visits to the Jama Masjid (1650 AD) which is the largest mosque in India, the Red Fort (1639-48) which was the seat of the Moghul Empire for more than 250 years and the cremation sites of Mahatma Gandhi (Raj Ghat) and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (Shanti Vana)
A half day city tour of New Delhi – duration about four hours. Tour of New Delhi begins with a drive past Safdarjang’s Tomb (1753 AD) while driving to the Qutab Minar (1193 A.D.) which is a striking medieval tower of victory of Persian architectural style and is 73 m high. Within the Qutab complex, amidst the ruins of Quwat-ul-Islam mosque, stands the Iron pillar which has stood the vagaries of weather and has not rusted over 1500 years. Later, visit the Tomb Moghul Emperor Humayun and then drive through Lutyens New Delhi which includes the Embassy area (Diplomatic enclave), Government buildings, India Gate, a golden domed Sikh Temple (Bangla Sahib Gurudwara), Birla Temple and Connaught Place, which is New Delhi’s main shopping area.
June 10th. Delhi – Agra. Early morning Express train (0600 – 0800) to Agra. Half day tour of Agra – duration about three hours –The tour includes a visit to the Agra Fort, the original red sandstone fort built by Moghul Emperor Akbar in 1565, whose maze of courtyards, a marble mosque and private chambers reflect the grandeur of the Mughal Empire.
Break for Lunch.
Afternoon – Visit the TAJ MAHAL. The world’s greatest monument dedicated to love was built by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 as a memorial to his queen Mumtaz Mahal. This beautiful mausoleum in pure white marble took 22 years and 22000 craftsmen to build.
Late afternoon – drive back to Delhi. Check into day use room at an airport hotel till 1 am assisted check in at the airport.
Alternatively, you could get a car and driver to stay with you till late this evening, and spend the last few hours at Delhi – initially shopping or sightseeing, and later having a late dinner and a drink or something at a hotel near the airport. Bear in mind that Delhi is a little bit of a late night city, specially in summer.
Please do let me know what Tour Level you’re interested in.
2006 Family Cruise to Mexico
Chillin at the airport in Houston
Birthdays
Random Birthday pictures.
Dubai in June 2006
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Ben Wrestling 2006
Middle School 2006 State Champ Ben Peterson 165 Pound Weight Class
AF Newspaper article
On 28 Jan. 2006 the CaveRats traveled to Orem High School For the 4A-5A State Junior High and Middle School State Championships
CONGRATULATIONS TO BEN PETERSON OUR NEW 165# STATE Middle School CHAMPION! Ben took the title after pinning Tripton, Jordan of Brighton in the semi-finals(in 8 seconds in the first period) and going on to pin Dawe, Hunter of TUG(Pleasant Grove) for the CHAMPIONSHIP.
This is Bens second year with the Caverats wrestling program. He is also involved with other sports (football, baseball and swimming). Ben just loves to compete. I think he gets that from his dad.
Caverats had three other wrestlers competing in the state tournament. Nick Muehlman wrestled his heart out but came up short on two very long matches. In no way was Nick dominated, in fact at different times during the match Nick had his opponents in pinning positions. Silas Olsen brought his game face to the mat as well. He made a few mistakes in the first match which cost him a victory. In his second match he was in control throughout the majority of the match, but some penalty points ended up costing him a one point deficit in the final score. Jacob Smith ran into some early round opponents which were very tough and did not fair well for the tournament. You’ve got to give Jake credit he keeps giving it everything he has every tournament. Brook Tanner would have wrestled but there was a registration problem that could not be worked out the day of the tournament.
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