DeKALB — I’ll be honest, as a grown man with over three decades of adult life experience, usually when I hear the words adversity and distractions as applied to sports teams, I tend to cringe.
I mean, I’ve lost my dad. I’ve also lost two of my siblings. I’ve had a few other bad things happen to me. When I hear a team talking about “adversity” because a couple guys are hurt, or something is a “distraction” because of some off-field incidents or issues, I don’t want to hear it. Those are just excuses for losing, or built-in excuses for losses that are going to come.