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My H.S. Teacher, Mentor, COACH…25 years later we are now co-workers at
@PennStateFball
.
Just a really cool life moment for me to introduce my wife, kids & HAPPY VALLEY to TA.
#weare
-I remember his OV
-I remember his PSU plays
- I remember his Pro Day
-I remember his NYJ Plays
-I remember him sleeping in my home so he could come to help in the office
-I remember him as a GA
-I will NEVER FORGET his smile for this opportunity D EARNED this 💪🏾🫡
#myguy
8 years ago (2011) our last practice as a Joe Pa staff & team b4 departing for bowl game in Dallas!What a THROWBACK 👀 as were in Dallas playing in Cotton Bowl now! Oh & Im still
#SantaClaus
#timeflies
#pennstatefootball
The
@PennStateFball
Lasch Football Building has safely arrived in Orlando, FL for the
@CitrusBowl
and relocated into the
@Hyatt
! Merry Christmas 🎄 Nittany Nation
S/O & THANK YOU to the
@PennStateFball
support staff, student mangers, interns, custodians, maintenance staff, cooks, field maintenance, truck drivers, etc. ALL of US played a key role in US going 1-0 vs Auburn for the players & coaches
#weare
#family
Thank you to
@coachjfranklin
for allowing me to experience taking Lincoln to school for his 1st Day of Pre-K! Jackie wanted a 1st day picture in his classroom as well
#family
🏈
My family & I are honored and blessed to be part of this journey since day 1 with
@coachjfranklin
and we’re looking forward to our bright future TOGETHER as a family, team & University
#thankful
#blessed
🙏🏾
My FAVORITE
@coachjfranklin
tradition🙏🏾
Make sure everyone on staff is present for they kids first day of school.
This year was new & different for me as I now have a Kindergartener
Thank you Coach for the Memories
#weare
S/O & THANK YOU to the
@PennStateFball
support staff, student mangers, student interns, custodians, maintenance staff, cooks, field maintenance, etc. ALL of us played a role in going 1-0 vs Wisconsin for the players & coaches
#family
#weare
@PennStateFball
video staff made HISTORY vs Northwestern!
We had the 1st all female crew film a game for the Coaches, Players, & Pro Leagues. To narrow it down even more 1st female crew of color!
So PROUD of these ladies & EVERYONE on my staff for wanting to
#MakeADifference
Crazy to think going into my 13th 🏈 season!
Met my wife in PA and both my boys were born in PA. To the younger generation you never know where life will lead you so always keep an open mind and willing to move & grow professionally & personally
S/O & THANK YOU to the
@PennStateFball
support staff, student mangers, interns, custodians, maintenance staff, cooks, field maintenance, truck drivers, etc. ALL of US played a key role in US going 1-0 last night vs Purdue for the players & coaches
#weare
#family
We’re just 3 PROUD Fathers discussing fatherhood as all 3 of our children were born in April 2018 and starting Kindergarten this month.
We shared lots of laughs about our kiddos and gave fatherly advice to each other!
#weare
#lovebeingadad
1st Day my 15th season with
@PennStateFball
.
Same Mission
I challenged everyone on my staff to take that same approach this season & in life
I had a wristband made for everyone on my staff as were all in this together
Excited & blessed for this 2023 season
#MakeADifference
Jackie attended his 1st Penn State Football team meeting today. He high fived the guys, sat quietly with his Gatorade and even posed with the boss man afterwards
Its awesome working for a team that puts FAMILY 1st 🙏🏾
Myself &
@JoetheVideoGuy
strive to have the most diverse staff in 🏈. 1st game ever filmed by 2 women! 1st game ever filmed by all students of color. I LOVE & appreciate EVERYONE on my staff for working together as a team and making a DIFFERENCE 🙏🏾
#weare
@PennStateFball
support staff gathering!
350 Wings, 12lbs pork, 24 steaks, Chips/queso, 6lbs mac/cheese, salad, fruit, cheesecake, cobbler, brownies. Dunk contest, cornhole, arcades! Great day with the football family
#blessed
Welcome to the world
JACK ALI STONE!
We love & appreciate hearing what Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali did and stood for
Jackie Ali Stone
February 10, 2020
Born 10:48am
Weight: 6lb 15oz
Length: 19 inches
#wearethestones
Jevin
Hannah
Lincoln
Jackie
Was an honor & blessing to represent
@PennStateFball
and speak at the
@CSVA
Conference on the subject of Diversity & Inclusion in Collegiate Sports. “A Life is not important except in the IMPACT it has on other lives” -Jackie Robinson
This man & his ENTIRE family have went over & beyond for me and my entire family. I will always look up and respect my guy
@CoachTerryPSU
congrats brother love u & the entire fam 💪🏾
As
#BlackHistoryMonth
comes to a end I want to give a S/O to these 5 NFL, NFL Europe, & NCAA Head Coaches of color I’ve had the honor & pleasure of working for/with so far in my 20 year career. Thank you gentlemen 🙏🏾
Was an honor to be introduced to Coach Brad Stevens (
@BCCoachStevens
) from our Head Mens Basketball Coach Micah Shrewsberry (
@Coach_Shrews
) today.
3 men all from the City of Indianapolis here in PA
#317
Cool part about my job is meeting families during the recruiting process then that family becomes my life long friend. Blessed to have met the Washington family. Happy & proud of you
@Ash3Washington
💪🏾🙏🏾
I’ve known
@CoachTHowle
since he was 17 yrs old and he hasn’t changed 1 bit I am so HAPPY for Ty, Karen, and those twin boys of his! 🏈 genius, humble, smart, ELITE leader! Tightend room wont skip a beat! Congrats Ty love u bro💪🏾
What an emotional/humbling experience as I was surprised with an award from Minorities in Sports Penn St for my leadership & service.
I’m blessed & honored to have partnered up with MIS to help minorities get there foot in the door within PSU Athletics
#weare
My oldest (5 yrs old) worked his 1st 🏈 practice and got a sample size from every department with
@PennStateFball
Thank you very much to everyone in our organization for giving Lincoln a memory of a lifetime. He learned a lot and cant stop talking about his day 🙏
#weare
I been around my 🏠 Family every single day since 3/6/20. Today 7/27/20 I’m stoked to be back with my 🏈 family to prepare for our 2020 season!
#weare
#family
Happy Birthday the BIG 5-0 to the man my kids call Uncle James and I call Coach or Boss Man!
Thank you for the love, care, support, & respect you give me, my family, and my staff 🙏🏾
ENJOY YOUR BIRTHDAY
@coachjfranklin
5-0
Fired up for my 14th training camp w/PSU 🏈! I LOVE my staff top to bottom starting w/
@JoetheVideoGuy
& his/they loyalty, leadership, & assistance thank you ALL and lets be the BEST in College 🏈 in 2022
#weare
#family
#tbt
I wanted to watch 🏈! Lincoln wanted to feed me fake Oreos.....LOVE being a Father Cherish EVERY moment.....2nd Son comes in February
#fatherhood
#FamilyGuy
For Myself &
@CoachAllenIU
our pregame chat consisted of Life, Family, & the Westside of Indianapolis. Our hearts pour out to everyone on the westside and the City of Indianapolis 🙏🏾
Penn St vs App St game attendance was 105,323 and Lincoln James HAD to be the youngest and LOUDEST at 4 months🗣! Thanks Son the entire
@PennStateFball
team appreciates your support👏🏾 love you bud
#footballfamily
Best of the BEST!
So PROUD of this TEAM!
Continue working together, continue laughing together & lastly continue learning together!
We met August ‘22, to Rose Bowl Champions in January ‘23, to
@CSVA
Winners in May ‘23
Nittany Nation
Myself &
@JoetheVideoGuy
hired this kid exactly 1 year ago and he had ZERO 🏈 experience coming in. Needless to say
@Spencercohen_
took FULL advantage of his opportunity & resources and look at him now!
VERY proud of you Spence 👏🏾💪🏾😤
The 2019
@PennStateFball
video staff just got there goodie bags/training camp survival kits and READY for a successful, healthy season!
@coachjfranklin
and staff LETS DO THIS!
#weare
Welcome home Lincoln James Stone aka LJ! Your Mom fought hard son! Born: 4/15/2018 8:16am
Weight: 6lb 10oz
Height: 20 inches
On this date 153yrs ago Ab Lincoln died from assassination and will 4ever be a LEGEND
#wearethestones
On this College FB Sat throwing it back 12 years ago to my 1st ever game/experience in Beaver Stadium vs Akron & we WON 31-7! S/O to my guys Kav & E
#weare
@CoachE_TAMU
@bentleykav
Lincoln its been exactly 365 days that you entered this world and its been the absolute BEST year of my life. You’ve taught me more than you’ll ever know! You’ve taught me patience, and the TRUE definition of LIFE! Thank you son and HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY!! Love ya big fella
Before you look like like my youngest son Jackie after you take down your thanksgiving plates😂 make sure you FIRST give thanks for all your blessings today
Happy Thanksgiving 🙏🏾
Since the return of 🏈 I havent seen my boys much so I surprised swooped Lincoln up from school during lunch and we went to get our haircut together.
#LoveBeingADad
#wearethestones
Lets do the math:
We have Best Gameday Atmosphere ✅
We have Best Student Section ✅
We have Best Head Coach ✅
We have Best Athletic Director ✅
We have Best President ✅
We have Best Alumni 🌎 ✅
To be the BEST in NIL 👇🏾
@HappyValleyUtd
#WeAre
Every game week we call for our
#107kstrong
. TOGETHER we are locked in, committed & show the tremendous power of the Penn State Community.
We need EVERYONE locked in on being 1-0 in the NIL race. There is power in our
#750kLivingAlumni
& we need everyone to take PRIDE & COMPETE
My role is to not be there best friend right now but raise Lincoln & Jackie to grow into hard working, respectable young men but more importantly servant leaders! Greatest gift in the 🌎 is being a
#father
🙏🏾
To my FAMILY at home & my FAMILY at work.
We are ROSE BOWL CHAMPIONS🌹
I strive to be a father figure & motivational leader personally & professionally for all of you. I love learning about you guys & being around you all
#footballdiversity
Honored & Proud to say I work for and with 2 of the 4 (Franklin & Huff) on this list. I’m completely lost for words that this is the 1st time ever in College Football 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️✊🏾
#weare
This Saturday was a major FBS milestone. For the first time ever, 2 games featured black HCs on both sidelines, including the first-ever in
@conferenceusa
history. Congrats to Coaches Huff, Taggert, Locksley & Franklin.
📰:
Well Lincoln had his 1st organized activity today and it was a sport I have ZERO knowledge in....SOCCER! To see my 1st born playing a team sport for the 1st time in a organized environment gave me a moment of WOW
#lovebeingadad
Todays the day thank you to
@CoachTerryPSU
for educating our organization & special shoutout to our leader
@coachjfranklin
in supporting us ALL! Honored to work with folk that care for me & my family more than just being an employee 🙏🏾
Tony Dungy, Romeo Crennel, Jim Caldwell, Joe Paterno, Bill O’Brien, and currently James Franklin all the HC’s I worked for and they ALL put FAMILY 1st 🙏🏾!
My Dad drove me to school everyday until age 16 and never missed a game (The one time he did Peyton, Edge and Reggie filled in for him) I'm glad to hear other coaches and execs are catching on to the idea of life balance and family time 🙏🏽
Saw this coming 5 months ago! Im blessed I get a front row seat during the week to see all this come to fruition on gameday!
Hell of a job defense again lead by Coach Manny 🫡💪🏾😤
Im excited to see what my guys on the defensive staff lead by Coach Manny got cooking in that staff room for these men 😬😳
Let me & Joe know what ya’ll need 🎥
VERY expensive, HOT day of 20,000 steps 😂🤷🏾♂️ at Magic Kingdom but seeing the smiles & excitement on your kids’ face is PRICELESS 🙏🏾
#wearethestones
#magickingdom
Lincoln’s Virtual Birthday Gathering was a success! He even took all his new Toy Story friends to bed and by his smile it was a successful day 🙏🏾! Birthday
#2
#toystory
HAPPY ✌🏽 BIRTHDAY LINCOLN JAMES STONE! From the day u were born till 2day I’m PROUD and HONORED 2 be ur Father.
As the quote goes “You don’t raise hero’s you raise sons and if you treat them like sons they’ll turn out to be hero’s even if it just in my eyes” Love you big fella🙏🏾
7-11-23 my Dad clocked in for work and today is his 50 year work anniversary working for the City of Indianapolis.
I wanted my boys to see Paw Paw smile on his face as he clocked in.
50 years rain, snow, sunshine he is in the elements full uniform 6am all day no matter what
1 Day Rented Umbrella $40
1 Day Rented Beach Chair $20
1 Pina Colada (For Dad) $20
1 Smiling kid $ EXPENSIVE😂
Up at 4am bc he thinks its 10am ANOTHER subject haha
#hawaii
#wearethestones
#pennstatefootball
fans & followers lets wish
@coachjfranklin
a HAPPY BIRTHDAY as he does all of us. Also, send a pic reply of YOUR bday meal as Coach asks us all the same. My pic is below as CJF got a kick back in Oct of my bday meal 😂
Exactly 1 year ago our world changed and I was being trained on how to use zoom and work remotely for the 1st time ever. Today I received the vaccination to protect myself and my family
Happy Thanksgiving 2018 from our family to yours! We Are thankful for all the love and support shown to us over the years! Jevin, Hannah, LJ
#wearethestones
1st I LOVE the game of 🏀! But this picture is bigger than 🏀! I see who I am today! Father, husband, leader, protector! As a DAD my heart is torn for ALL these families!
#RIP
🙏🏾
#KobeRIP
Lincoln missed the memo that our 🏈 game vs Michigan was a whiteout.....luckily the other 110,669 fans in attendance dressed accordingly!
#wearethestones
#lovebeingadad
Im excited to see what my guys on the defensive staff lead by Coach Manny got cooking in that staff room for these men 😬😳
Let me & Joe know what ya’ll need 🎥
Our family just loss an AMAZING man!! A man of high character and would ALWAYS look out for all of us. A TRUE gentlemen and FAMILY man! I looked up to you and will carry all your wisdom and advice given over the years. I leave you with a spinet of you teaching me how to dance
BIG day in the Stone family today -Happy Fathers Day to my Dad who will always give you a straight, honest, respected answer to any questions you may have
-Happy 66th Birthday Dad
-Happy 46th Wedding Anniversary
7 kids, 13 Grandkids, 6 Great Gkids 🌳
God has truly blessed me to be where I am today & a part of the 🏈 culture in the video down below! All I can do now is be a living example for my family/friends on the westside of
#Indy
! 🙏🏾
#ThankfulAndHumbled
Since the parks are closed & Im lacking the proper equipment to burn off some 2yr old 6pm energy just make do.....I even used the garden hose for a hoop drill
#QuarantineLife
#sportsfamily
#lovebeingadad