Provo Regional Champions

Coach Johnson and the 9th grade Provo Bulldogs.

So they are region champs!  McKay started the season coming off of the bench.  By the end of the season he was a full-time starter and a big contributor to the team.  He was a great blocker!  It is fun to watch him get the swats.    He is in the second row, second from the rt.   Way to go McKay,  way to make mom and dad proud.    Now it is on to soccer.   Yesterday, 03/07/11, he played Spanish Fork.  McKay had an assist in varsity and they won 7-2.   McKay also scored in JV and they also won 3-1.   Keep up the hard work.  Speaking of soccer, I remember seeing his older brother score the winning goal off of a corner kick in Payson back in 2005 I believe.   And in reference to the above photo,  Beau also won the same tournament  in 2006 and he was first team all region that year, and ya, he beat Brandon Davies' team that year.

Brandon Davies

Ok, so it is now all over the national news why Brandon got the boot from the team.   At first I was very upset about it.  BYU seemed to be using him as their poster child and I still think that they are but now wait a minute.  If you are going to be in the spotlight you need to be able to take the good with bad.  I was talking earlier in the day with my friend Mike Bastian.   He and I were talking about Officer Mark Peterson who was fired from Provo PD for some stupid things.  Mike said,  "we all will be knocked off our high horse sooner or later."   I thought it was kinda  De Javu when I later heard about Brandon that same evening. 
   Now back to Davies.    I have known him since he was 8!    He is a neat kid.   He spent his senior year living in our house.  He had his own bedroom.   Julie and I would try to talk to Brandon about accountability and he would blow us off.  Not big lectures just little things and he would have nothing to do with it.   We even tried chores and he would really bug out and be gone for a few days,  usually to Tui's, home, or Kyle's.  Eventually he would return and the cycle would start over.   ACCOUNTABILITY would always come up and Brandon would have NOTHING to do with it.    Brandon is a very talented person,  I would love to ask Carrie Jenkins (BYU spokesperson) if she knew anything about him outside of basketball and the nemesis honor code?   Well has she seen him play the guitar or piano?  Pretty awesome!  Has she seen him ride a bike, BACKWARDS? Incredible!  Has she seen him ride a skateboard?, doing a manual?  (on the front two wheels for over a city block? Unreal!   Doing backflips on the trampoline?   Over and over and over......?  Well I have seen him do all of this and many more amazing things.      Well, now for the softer side of me,  I was nearly in tears after a few days of hearing about the suspension.  It was quite literally tears of joy for I knew that Carrie Jenkins was being an answer to my prayers in suspending Brandon.   He will be fine.  Now Brandon, get up off of the floor, wipe off the dirt, and get back to work.   You have many more people to impress.   Thanks for all of the laughs!