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Ohio State fan left this message on a sub-Reddit, essentially calling his own fanbase entitled:
“I'm not going to pretend like Ryan Day is a flawless coach, but this is his seventh loss in five years. If we fired him, WHY THE F*CK WOULD ANYONE TAKE THIS JOB?
The floor and ceiling of this program are virtually indistinguishable. We expect to go undefeated & win the championship every year. What coach is capable of doing that? Why would they want to come here with these expectations?
I'm annoyed seeing former players talk about this too as if beating Michigan now is as easy as it was when they were playing against the smoldering remains of whatever Rich Rodriguez & Brady Hoke were doing to that program at the time. It's embarrassing. Grow the f*ck up.
It sucks that we lost to Michigan three times, but... they're good. They're SUPPOSED to be good. Georgia is also good. So is Clemson. So is Alabama. Beating good teams is hard. Winning championships is hard.
It is not always OSU's fault when we lose games; other teams are allowed to be good and play hard too, and sometimes it doesn't go our way.”
Conner Stalions might be the most intriguing figure in the history of CFB. A person who actively interacts with the highest level of coaches on the sidelines, yet "no one knows what he was doing there". He shows up on sidelines of CMU and no one knows how he got there. He has a vacuum repair business on his front porch, he's in business with the starting RB but that guy doesn't know it. On a take home pay of about $40k, he pays a $2k/month mortgage & has $15k for a travel and ticket budget for his scouting op. He has a 600 page online manifesto to take over the Michigan football program. I'll say again, the 30 for 30 will be incredible!
Michigan Cheated
After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.
He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.
Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”
Coach replied,
“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”
Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”
And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.
Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”
Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”
“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”
“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”
Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”
Takeaway 1:
Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”
“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”
“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'
“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'
Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”
Takeaway 2:
I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.
The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”
To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.
Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.
In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”
Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”
- - -
“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady
Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!
![bpoppenheimer's tweet photo. After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.
He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.
Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”
Coach replied,
“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”
Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”
And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.
Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”
Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”
“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”
“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”
Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”
Takeaway 1:
Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”
“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”
“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'
“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'
Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”
Takeaway 2:
I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.
The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”
To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.
Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.
In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”
Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”
- - -
“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady
Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F85l1KpWUAAeAcO.jpg)
Retaining the Virlina Cup!!
I don’t know why… you need 2yrds… you just pick up 7-8 on a run and refuse to run again. It’s not complicated
Harbaugh didn’t have a career ending injury in his prime….
Thought this was a spoof but it's not:
Bo Jackson career NFL rushing yards: 2,782
Jim Harbaugh career NFL rushing yards: 2,787
He took another step as the leader of the program after the game. It wasn’t the comments towards Holtz that made me love him. It was the attitude that he’s fed up with ppl talking crazy about him/them. (I used to be one of them until he shouted me out 🤣🤣.. but we got cool this past week). I love him now though. He’s 44 and he acted like it. I don’t like the super cool and composed guy leading. I like the intense and we coming to win version of him. I like the dancing after the game. Everyone does…. Tressel was composed but SUPER intense. Urban was SUPER intense all the time. All of the greats are. Just as players have to take steps coaches do too. Happy for him and the program. I’m also rolling with Kyle McCord. He will be a star before it’s over. Maybe we are watching what Joe Burrows was prior to him developing into who he is. You never know!!
Been a great flounder season so far here in N.C. Had a fish fry for everyone at Meadowlands G.C. today. Perks of coastal living!
247 Big Ten top 10 committed players.
1. Jeremiah Smith - Ohio State
2. Mylan Graham - Ohio State
3. Justin Scott - Ohio State
4. Eddrick Houston - Ohio State
5. Aaron Scott - Ohio State
6. Air Noland - Ohio State
7. Carter Nelson - Nebraska
8. Quinton Martin - Penn State
9. Luke Reynolds- Penn State
10. Jadyn Davis - Michigan
Anonymous Michigan State player on Marvin Harrison Jr:
“He walked in our locker room pregame & walked by me. I’m like, what the hell is he coming in our locker room for?.. He walked by me & looked at our entire secondary & said, ‘Lace em up, it’s gonna be a long fucking game’”
@RuckusRod22 Y’all wearing grey for the game??
2023 Carolinas Team
#VirlinaCup2023
Riley Boyette-C&S Champ
Chris Jones-Winter Mtg
Bradley Pope-Qualifier 1
Steve Agazzi-Qualifier 1
Terry English-Qualifier 2
Ryan Hull-Qualifier 2
Stephen Drews-Captain Pick
Barry Graham-Sponsor Pick
Matches presented by @SyngentaGolf
2019 Ohio State is one of the best teams that I’ve ever seen
• 13-1
• #4 Total Offense (Yards)
• #5 Rushing Offense (Yards)
• #1 Passing Defense (Yards)
• #8 Rushing Defense (Yards)
• #1 Total Defense (Yards)
• JK Dobbins ran for over 2K Yards
• Justin Fields & Chase Young were Heisman Finalists
Notable Wins
• W over Cincinnati 42-0
• W over #13 Wisconsin 38-7
• W over #9 Penn State 28-17
• W over #10 Michigan 56-27
• W over #10 Wisconsin 34-21
• Justin Fields threw 41 TDs and only 3 INTs
• Chase Young recorded 16.5 Sacks & 21.0 TFLs
• Jeff Okudah recorded 3 INTs
@Tim121464 Sorry for your loss Tim, to doggy heaven she goes 😔
Turf TLC.
Despite what some think, most tour pros do think about their swings while hitting the ball. I think one swing thought can def be beneficial but more than one you are prob not doing either well as humans are terrible multi-taskers. You can go with zero thoughts but I personally have never done well with JUST visualization. Also, you have enough mental capacity to have multiple thoughts on the range but can’t afford that much brain power on the course especially if you have any consequences for the shot.
Beautiful day and a great turn out for our annual @PalmettoGCSA fundraiser tournament. Thank you to Barefoot Dye Club for hosting us and absolutely knocking it out of the park with service and food. What a Day!Thanks for the help everyone involved with setting up. @CarolinasGCSA
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