Its all about position: Part II

Well as I mentioned in an earlier post--its all about position. Let me give you two examples. First, Michigan's defense. Obviously, the spread offense of mighty Appalachian State put Michigan's defense in some awful positions. Better yet, the Michigan defense often found itself out of position in trying to defend the spread offense. Result: Michigan loses to a sub-division I team. That was embarassing. I don't really want to discuss that anymore, because this loss should have never happened. No disrespect to App. State, but the 3rd or 4th string on Michigan should be able to beat App. State. Everyone on the Michigan team is a former "blue chip" player in high school and turned down schools much better than I-AA App. State in order to compete for a chance to actually play at Michigan. This is not Michigan arrogance, this would be the same for any good BCS football team such as Florida, Texas, Miami, etc. The talent on Michigan alone should be worth 14-21 points. But instead, they didn't prepare at all, took App. State for granted and got embarrassed on their own field. I hope the rest of the season turns around.

Second example: Rebecca and I went to her doctor's appointment on Friday and were met with some surprising news. Our baby had done an improbable post-37 week flip and was currently sitting (probably very happily) in a breech presentation. Most of you will know that this is not a good thing, especially at 38+ weeks. Our doctor (in agreement with us) recommended against any manual correction (ECV) and scheduled a C-section for Friday (39 weeks). So there you have it---our daughter has one bad sense of direction. Therefore, starting Friday, we had one week to turn her around (naturally, of course). We have been working with an accupuncturist to try and turn the baby. We have noticed a lot of movement and the baby appears to be in a different position, although she appears to still be breech. However, there is always hope. This is where you all come in. Please pray for both Rebecca and the baby. We know that a C-section is not the end of the world and we are very much at peace with it, if that is the way it all plays out. However, assuming the breech presentation is not the only way the baby will be healthy, then it is our desire that she turns head down and we jump back onto our orignial set of plans. However, some things are out of our hands and in God's (and that is perfectly fine with us). Anyway, I mainly encourage you to pray for Rebecca and the baby's health. We will go in on Thursday for our weekly appointment (w/ ultrasound) and see where (or what on) the baby ended up. If that is a bottom, then we will leave and go about our normal preparation. If that is a head, then we will go in the next day and meet our daughter. Either way, we will be ok.