This week in "I'm old" realizations...

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Had an "I'm old" realization yesterday while I was out running (and yes, I realize that plenty of you have years, if not decades, on me). As of this year, there are now football players getting significant playing time that were not alive when I first marched onto Hanson Field as a Marching Leatherneck.

For example...Freshman RB Steve McShane was born 9/25/1996. At that point I had performed at 2 home games and Western was 4-0 including a 17-0 win at Northern Illinois (that we had traveled to). It was a bye week. It was also the first year in a stretch of 4 out of 5 years that we made the playoffs.

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Welcome to the realization Scott. In teaching, you really notice it when you are teaching your students' children, and even more so when you are teaching their grandchildren.
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SURVIVOR: Gen X vs Millennials starts today and "Gen X" is the "old" tribe. WTF?
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