Mark Gastelum

Catholic, Husband, Father, Teacher, Football Coach #BLESSED @Football_DeSoto

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

The Curt Cignetti College Football 27 cover looks like the poster for a 1994 Disney movie in which a recently divorced NFL head coach decides to coach an underachieving high school team of misfits as a way to reconnect with his son who's grown distant after his parents split up.

[Mark Gastelum @CoachG70]

Year 19 is special as Im bringing my own freshman to the program! Proud of my son & the hard work he’s put in & how I know he will work, but also proud of the program I’ve helped build & knowing it & the men who lead it will mold him into an even better young man. Can’t wait!

[Mark Gastelum @CoachG70]

Tomorrow starts my 19th year coaching footballat De Soto! 19 years ago I was nervously getting ready for my 1st day at my 1st “grown up” job. Fast forward, I’m married with 3 kids and thanking God every day for bringing us here. We are so blessed to be in this community!

[Mark Gastelum @CoachG70]

This is so good and something I hope every man I know, Catholic or of, will read.

[Catholic Manhood ❤️‍🔥 @bethecreed]

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[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

Bill Yeoman installing the Outside Veer

[Mark Gastelum @CoachG70]

@CoachMRegalado @BakerU_Football @Revive_Perf @BenParks27

[Miguel Regalado @CoachMRegalado]

Donate your money to a big university or be recruited? Be 1 of 125 prospects or be 1 of 500? We signed 7 players from this day a year ago. We’re not trying to make money, we’re trying to find great players. It’ll be worth your time! 🟠⚫️

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[Mark Gastelum @CoachG70]

As the 2025-2026 school year comes to an end, we start to look ahead to what 2026 might hold. The @Football_DeSoto offense should be explosive in 2026 and I can’t wait! These are just a few names to remember!

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[DHS Football @Football_DeSoto]

To the class of 2026, congratulations! Football season was just the beginning of your legacy at De Soto! Incredible leadership, an unwavering work ethic, and an example that will shape programs for years to come! We are so proud of you and grateful for all you’ve done!

[Tony Shiffman @CoachShiffman]

There’s something overwhelming nostalgic about kids wearing their letterman jackets to school each day. Even wearing jerseys on Fridays seems like an almost dead tradition. Bring back THOSE things and watch the world heal.

[Dr. Jacob W. Wood @traditionwisdom]

The moment when the Canvas hackers got to the first batch of professor-student messages, thinking they’d hit gold, only to read 65,000 iterations of:

“It’s on the syllabus.”

[Mark Gastelum @CoachG70]

@Football_DeSoto

[WOWKC @WOWKCfootball]

Don’t want to play⬇️
MO 6 Blue Springs, NKC, Lees Summit
5 Rockhurst, SPX
4 Kearney, Smithville
3 SMA, Pembroke Hill, SCA
KS 6 MV, GE, SME
5 BV, St James, BVSW
4 STA, BMiege
Who else KC? Any class

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[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.” - St. Francis De Sales

[MJ👑 @iam__Jezreel]

Satan got Adam and Eve to focus on one fruit when God had given them a whole garden. That's how he works. He gets you to focus on that one thing you don't have. Instead of all the blessings you do have.

Trust that God knows what you need, and will supply it when you need it.

[ESU Athletics @ESUSports]

Final from Trusler as @ESUBaseball takes the series finale over Missouri Southern 13-7. Cooper Schwindt with his second multi HR game of the season. #StingersUp

[Paul Fleuret @RealAbs1776]

Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through.

Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating.

Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience.

The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse.

The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him.

Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will.

Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal.

He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man.

This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt.

Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone.

This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss.

Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull.

These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds.

At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in.

What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back.

Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile.

Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive.

Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms.

A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe.

He suffered for 6 hours.

His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life.

His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long.

His heart was struggling to pump blood.

He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking.

His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress.

And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin.

He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him.

HE DID IT ALL FOR US.

To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom.

Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it.

And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going.

For us.

[Mark Gastelum @CoachG70]

@FB_FilmAnalysis Don’t challenge people to be dumber.

[Monte Sparkman @MonteSparkman]

If your technique isn’t great on a particular movement/exercise, try lowering the weight and focusing on technique.