This college basketball team Banned smartphone. It is now in the Final Four

This college basketball team Banned smartphone. It is now in the Final Four

Texas Tech men’s basketball team, the parents of America greeted her. Our country trainers offer also makes a great thank you, as any teacher who has had an electronic device to fight for attention. Why are millions of us so grateful to the Red Raiders? Now, because of your actions, we can now – with a straight face – our children say, our players, our students, if you just stand their stupid phones and go to sleep already, can also make the Final Four. The Red Raiders are not only a very fine basketball team that will be addressed in the second national semifinal in Minneapolis on Saturday Michigan State (Virginia plays Auburn in the first game, which tips off at 6:09 Eastern). They are also borderline heroes who have made the force more than a technician of a dozen separate combined Ted Talk to prove. Texas Tech glorious work, first of all a road game in February starts to Oklahoma. 9 Red Raiders had lost three straight road games against opponents Conference (Baylor, Kansas State and Kansas). So the senior captain Norense Odiase, a 6’9 “center of Fort Worth, came up with an idea: Let the bag to all our cell phones before going to bed.” Stuck “says Odiase.” Players Let No distractions. “.. we meet – some with more protest than others – and Texas Tech won 66-54 the next night A routine was born in Texas Tech third year coach, Chris Beard, has not l ‘ love for mobile phones: prohibits them at meals and team .. south of Lubbock, passed his players a team-building retreat for two days on a ranch about 100 miles their devices (you have to scroll karaoke instead of Instagram) So Beard drove even more Odiase idea: mobile phones would be collected on all nights of a journey, not. only the night before a game “has never been my idea,” says Odiase “Some of the guys give me a few things about this. “you should not. Tech is a cool 13-1 since Odiase ordered ban all. night in a spa EL, bumps Texas Tech Junior Manager Anderson Cooper on doors to players 11 to collect smuggling . It ‘grew up in a red bag and cooler Texas black Tech (no ice). He hears a moaning old smattering Bradone Francis, according to Anderson, it is the most robust. “He ‘a good guy,” says Anderson. “But he likes his mobile phone a lot.” I asked Francis his feelings about the ban, but by the time he looked up from his phone to find an answer to an offer, had to leave for practice. In fact, the ban did you need some adjustment. “It was hard,” said sophomore guard Parker Hicks. “Our generation wants to visit our mobile phones.” Hicks was the first to use the hay in the slightest way on Twitter. “In fact, I’m embarrassed to have to actually go to sleep and it is a bit ‘different,” says Hicks. the ceiling and look at things at random “Look. Count to ten or something. However, counting the sheep. Pull” The advantage is realized. From Texas Tech Gonzaga top seeds in the Elite Eight hit a spot in the Final Four, the phone explodes Tariq Owens clinch. Everyone is to get in touch with him. “Just to be able to get away from him, just live in the moment when you feel great,” said Owens, before transferring as a graduate student at Texas Tech, Tennessee and played St. Johns. “I know this would be on it for a fact, not many teams happy. This is the kind of culture that we have. The guys do not care about them. We’re stuck when mobile phones in more important things.” So let’s take Odiase, the architect of most of the prohibitions at all, even a fist-bump. It has a message for the children of America. “The phone Your friends will always be there, always there, messages, all that stuff is always there in the morning,” he says. “Just have a little ‘rest.” So can the networks can be reduced.
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