A Sign?

Okay, this is actually probably ridiculous, but I felt like sharing it.
While assistant coaching my cross-country team today I found something.  Standing in the middle of a park, with only grass and trees around, one would not expect to find anything too terribly interesting.  Luckily, if I learned anything from my father, it was how to find things that most people walk right past.  So what did I find?  A quarter.  A bright, shiny quarter simply laying in the grass.  How it got there, only God may know... but I found it and that's just the start.  What do you think I found as I looked over this quarter?  Well, I immediately new, from the buffalo skull on the backside, that is was a Montana state quarter.  If you know me at all, you would know that I have a desire to return home, to be closer to my family and friends.
So, do I take this as a sign?  Not really.  I don't think God gives signs quite like this one, but I still think its cool... and I'm keeping the quarter!

On another note, I added to my work load today.  One of my wooooonnnderful students asked me if we could do something at school for the Year of Faith.  I figured since I knew nobody else at the school would be doing anything, that it would be up to me.  So, I sent out an e-mail to all the faculty and staff at school announcing to them that from now on, every Thursday, during both lunching, I will be holding a discussion/study/learning opportunity focusing on Lumen gentium, Gaudium et spes and the Catechism of the Catholic Church... maybe not in that order though.  I know with the Holy Spirits help we can make this a success... I just pray I can at least look like I know what I am talking about.

Peace all!

Complaining...

So being a coach can be tough.  It can also be extremely rewarding.  I am at the moment feeling very frustrated with coaching.  I don't really "coach" that much.  I am more around to supervise and be present for the athletes.  The problem with this is that I get to hear all of the complaining.  Our team has yet to win a game so the complaints seem to fly throughout practice.
"Why are we doing this?"
"We should be working on something else"
"This is stupid and pointless"
I have heard it all and it is starting to make me sick.  I am tired of having to defend what the other coaches are trying to have the athletes work on.
The root of all of this seems to me to be selfishness.  These athletes want to do what they think they need to do.  They look for any reason to criticize and instead of appreciating what they are doing and having fun they are just waiting for the end of practice or they are goofing off.
It is a lack of charity, a lack of doing what is right for others.  Not all of the athletes complain or criticize.  Is it fair to them to have all their teammates doing just that?
I really want to tell them to either appreciate that they actually get to play the game or just get off the field.
No coach is perfect, no team is perfect.  Why is it so hard to except that?
The culture of the team is so off... I wish I had the knowledge or strength or gumption to change it.