The success of Indiana football is summed up by Coach Cignetti:

We play to a standard, not to the circumstances of the game.
You don’t let up because you are playing to a standard.

You have the freedom of choice, but not freedom from consequence.

We watched Saving Private Ryan last week — a movie about doing the right thing even when the right thing is difficult.
Believing in a cause greater than yourself.
Asking the question: whose life is more important than the others?
Even Private Ryan asks that.

Movies like this reassure me that we know what’s right.
But we have relaxed our standards — in how we treat one another and what we expect of one another.

In Band of Brothers, Blythe is told that the only hope he has is to accept the fact that he’s already dead.
The sooner he accepts that, the sooner he can function as a soldier — without mercy, without compassion, without remorse.
All wars depend on it.

What is happening here feels like the end of that quote.

I help people humanize themselves.
Saying nothing is like saying my life is more important than someone else’s.

We need to raise our standards — for each other and for ourselves.