Gators #2 & the Power of One Man's Leadership

I heard something that fascinated me the other day. The first preseason poll is out for the 2005-6 college football season and guess who is No. 2? That's right. The Florida Gators. How could that be? How could they go from finishing 25 to be projected as the number 2 team in the land? The answer: new leadership. The players are the same. The facilities...Identical. The one thing that has changed - leadership. The one thing moving the Gators, at least in one polsters mind, from the bottom of the pack to the No. 2 spot is the hiring of one man named Urban Meyer. I've heard it said that everything rises and falls with leadership. This motivates me to take a close look at my own leadership. The scary thing is when everything hinges on leadership it takes away all the excuses. Let's make this the year when we stop looking around for excuses and start looking for opportunities to lead ourselves and the people around us to be what God has created us to be.