Just as we felt as a team while leaving the field at Chicago following our 48-10 victory last weekend, I approach my inaugural blog with mixed emotions.  I find myself in a unique position.  I will spend one more year at Wabash to graduate in 2011, yet this is my final season as a football player - ever.  The body begins to deteriorate in the latter stages of the college football player’s career.  Going up flights of stairs only means sharp knee pains and waking up to a Sunday morning is always accompanied by the popping of sternums, backs, and elbows.   As I look ahead to next year, part of me eagerly wonders what college life will be like without spending my late afternoons on the field.  Yet, a bigger part of me fears that day.  That day also means that my fellow seniors of Wabash Football will have continued on to the dreaded “real world.”  Some will be married, others will be overseas, and still more may be enrolled in additional school on the eastern coast.  This season has been surreal thus far.  I can only close by thanking my fellow brothers of Wabash Football for the experiences thus far.  As we prepare to take the field on each of the remaining Saturdays left in the season, and for us seniors, our entire football career, I take refuge in knowing that while we all share a passion for this wonderful game we play, this desire is only surpassed by a fervor for each other.  WAF!

-Kenny Coggins, Senior DE