The Paradoxial Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

Kent M. Keith

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes

The Original 13 Rules of Basketball

1.The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.


2.The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist.

3.A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, allowance to be made for a man running at good speed.

4.The ball must be held by the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it.

Coe Family

At the 2nd Annual Coe Men's Basketball Steak Fry on Saturday night, senior Dan Onorato delivered the following speech. 

Family is defined as “any group of persons closely related by blood; as parents, children, aunts and cousins. The reason I define this word for you this evening is because every year before a randomly decided game Coach Juckem’s pregame speech consists of going around the locker room and asking each player what Coe basketball means to them. Answers include such words as trust, defense, team etc. No answer is more correct than any other but the world that I’ve always said was family. When coach asked me to speak tonight about what Coe basketball means to me, once again the first word that popped into my head was family.


I got to thinking about why this was and when this came to be and it brought me back to freshmen year of college my very first day at Coe. I was moving into Greene Hall and was talking with fellow senior Joe Parys. After we established that I was Dan and like North Carolina and he was Joe and liked Duke I asked him about his high school basketball experience. You see at my high school my team did everything together. Not only did we play basketball together but we hung out together, our girlfriends were friends, we were all inseparable. I wondered if all schools were like that because that’s what I really loved about being part of a team, is the close relationships. Joe unfortunately told me that at his high school basketball was something they all liked yes, but at the end of the night after a game they would all do their own thing and part ways. This conversation instilled a fear in me that my collegiate basketball experience and the potential relationships I was going to make wouldn’t compare and or wouldn’t be the same as they were in high school. I started to think that maybe it just would never be like it was, never be the same.

Monday Motivation

A champion must possess a greater feeling of desire that goes far beyond that of winning. To be a true success you must challenge yourself not just for a temporary achievement, but more importantly for your own lasting self-gratification.

America Reads Day

Fourteen Kohawks went to Bowman Woods Elementary School today to read to some very bright students.
The guys did a great job reading timeless classics like Move Over Rover, Library Lil and Giggle, Giggle, Quack. 

Kohawk Freshman - Homecoming 2010

From L-R: Ryan Seipp, Shawn Havenga, Jared Stogdill, Nick Rochford & Nate Wood