Todd Dodge (7X Texas State Champion HC) - Developing QB Intangibles
- Never Let Them See You Sweat
- Great Body Language
- Show Toughness
- Understand Outside Opinions Don't Matter... Good or Bad
Rick Pitino is right.
Every player’s hourglass runs out faster than they think.
The practices. The games. The grind.
One day… it’s all gone.
Cherish every rep. Every moment. Every opportunity.
Don’t waste your sand. ⏳
Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.
Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥
You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.
Hard is the lesson.
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The Sooners add yet ANOTHER commit (5th of the weekend). This time it is 4 ⭐️ ATH Greydon Howell out of Broken Bow, Oklahoma!
The best in Oklahoma play at Oklahoma! THERE’S ONLY ONE
Early in my coaching career I had a talented player who was chronically five minutes late to everything. Not egregiously late. Just five minutes, every single time. I let it slide because he was good and I didn’t want the conflict.
Within a month, half the team was showing up five minutes late. Nobody said a word. The standard just drifted.
That’s when it hit me. You’re either actively maintaining your standards or you’re passively lowering them. There’s no neutral position.
I’ve also learned that expectations and standards aren’t the same thing, and that distinction matters more than most people realize.
Expectations are the vision. The why. In my programs they’ve always been simple. Have fun. Create great experiences and relationships. Learn and grow. That’s the emotional foundation everything else gets built on.
Standards are the daily behaviors that actually get you there. Be on time. Be trustworthy. Have a growth mindset and work hard. Take responsibility for your actions. Encourage the people around you. Don’t make excuses.
When those are clear and consistent something interesting happens. The standard becomes the authority, not the coach. I don’t have to lecture anyone. I just point to what we all agreed on. The conversation stays about the behavior, not the person. That’s where real accountability lives without anyone feeling attacked.
What I’ve seen over 25 years is that the teams, families, and programs that define these things clearly and hold them consistently almost always outperform the ones with similar talent that don’t.
It’s not magic. It’s just clarity. People do better when they know exactly where the lines are. Kids especially. They don’t struggle in high standard environments. They struggle in ambiguous ones.
Whatever you walk past becomes your new standard. The good news is it works in both directions. Raise the bar and hold it, and the people around you will rise to meet it. Every time.
Every OL coach should be doing this in my opinion. The more exposure to this the better off your student athletes will be. Hip mobility is one of if not the most important aspects of being an offensive lineman.
Ironically in this particular video were 3 lineman who went on to play D1 football. One of which will hopefully drafted to the NFL in a couple of months. 💥