Thread: Gholston Motivated to Succeed................

Originally Posted by Dagan81

I wish Vernon Gholston the best of luck. I don't know if his lack of success is because he is lacking in self-motivation or if he's not trying hard enough. I remember back in August of 2000 I auditioned to become a member of the University of Tennessee Pride of the Southland Marching Band on the trombone. I was an All-State caliber trombonist in high school, the first chair trombonist in the band, and arguably the best marcher in the entire band. Yet, when I got to UT and had to marching at faster tempos, I couldn't keep up the pace because of my feet - they are flat, I have extra bones in them, and I'm pigeon-toed. As a result, I was never given a place on the field to march in UT's nationally-recognized Pregame show, and the only reason I was allowed to be in the band is because I was a Music Education major. To give you an idea of how they dealt with keeping me, they placed me as the 32nd, and last, alternate position just to say that I was in the band.

Something was holding Gholston back, and I don't know what it was, but I doubt seriously that it was a lack of effort and self-motivation. When you get to this point in your career, effort and self-motivation can only take you so far. Just look at my experiences with the UT Marching Band and correlate it with Gholston's.

OK Dags, if you say so.