I have been fortunate to participate in the Senior Game whereby around 40 of the best Seniors in our state practice together for several days and for most of them play one last game. These are the last teammates they will ever line up next to.
This year I will stand before them as the AD of the game (not as a Coach) and watch the clock hit zero, the lights go dark, and for almost every single one of them, the pads come off forever. No more Fridays. No more film on Monday. No more locker-room smell that somehow still feels like home.