
James Heywood, an English playwright from a couple centuries back, is known for poems, proverbs, plays and also the ability “hit the mark” with some insightful phrases of his own or others. Among the many that he employed was: “Rome was not built in a day.”
Many successful people have added: “but they were laying bricks every day.”
Such is the case in sports, and such is the mantra of spring football. One of the Miami RedHawk football players, in fact, alluded to the brick-building process recently when he talked about a goal of getting at least one percent better each day.
Miami coach Chuck Martin might be cleverly disguised, but he spends a lot of time and effort building. Ironically, physical buildings have coincided with the personnel and talent building that he and his staff have undertaken. However, it is . . .