Maisel's diary of coaches' Mideast trip

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For those interested:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?id=3405133

Editor's note: Ivan Maisel will accompany Auburn's Tommy Tuberville, Georgia's Mark Richt, Miami's Randy Shannon, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis and Yale's Jack Siedlecki on the coaches' tour of the Middle East. He will update this trip diary regularly starting on Tuesday and will take a deeper look at the journey beginning May 27.

Daily diary follows on the link.

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Frost is scheduled to undergo one more surgery Thursday, and doctors expect him to be transported to Walter Reed Army Hospital back in the U.S. on Friday. If one quick meeting is any indication, Frost's roadblocks to recovery will be physical, not mental.

"Well, there are only two ways to go," Frost told the coaches. "I'd rather go forward."

As the visit wound up, Richt told Frost to contact the football offices of any of the coaches if he wanted to go to any one of their games.

"OK, roger that," Frost said.

Afterward, Richt marveled at Frost's attitude.

"He sure didn't act like he was feeling sorry for himself," Richt said. "He seemed to have no bitter feelings. … I think those guys were more happy to see us because we cared about them than they were any kind of football fans. They weren't. They appreciated that we cared enough to show up."

That is a great diary. It is interesting to read all of those stories from Shannon, Weis, Richt, and Tubs

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Big Pictures so I apologize for their size

http://ching-athens.blogspot.com/2008/05/m...aches-tour.html

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Bless all these coaches and gentlemen for making this trip. Godspeed to them and all our troops.

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True examples for the rest of the sports community. I'm extremely proud to have Tubs as our coach.