Jason Shumaker

Head Football Coach- Highlands Ranch High School- 16 years of college coaching exp- Proud Jayhawk- Dad to Davis & Elliette- Kate’s Husband #AllInRanch #TTDBL

[Denver Broncos @Broncos]

Inspiring the next generation. 🏈

HC @SeanPayton hosted more than 100 coaches representing 56 Colorado high schools to watch today's #BroncosOTAs practice!

[Joseph Guarascio @CoachJoeyG]

Weightlifting for kids is safe when execution of movement is prioritized
#weightlifting #training #sports

[Marquee Sports Network @WatchMarquee]

WHAT. A. WIN. 🤯

[Jason Shumaker @Coach_Shumaker]

@M_Vernon Believe you could say the same thing with the other starters (other than DP) too!

[Jason Shumaker @Coach_Shumaker]

All time great day!! What a game!! Go Broncos!! 🟠🔵⚪️🏈

[Coach Bam Hardmon @CoachBamHardmon]

🗣️ I say it’s great to be………

[Jason Shumaker @Coach_Shumaker]

Congrats to Cresthill MS- our 8th grade feeder school team- on winning the flag football district championship tonight!! Great things ahead for this group!

[Kansas Football @KU_Football]

For over 55 years, Todd “Leaper” Williams has dedicated his heart, time, and energy into supporting Kansas Football. It’s only fitting that our new equipment room is now named after him.

We appreciate everything you’ve done, Leap!

[HRHS Football @HRHSFootball]

Go vote for Grant Adamson’s one handed pick six as the @9Preps Play of the Week!!

[HRHS Football @HRHSFootball]

Check out this AMAZING ONE HANDED PICK SIX from Grant Adamson, our Junior CB, in last Friday’s 33-14 win over Gateway! What an awesome play!! #SCTop10 @MooreAshleyE @grantadamson

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

With great sadness, we share that Ryne Sandberg has passed away today.

[Jason Shumaker @Coach_Shumaker]

@grok What are other famous people to visit my profile? They don’t have to follow me and don’t @ them.

[Jason Shumaker @Coach_Shumaker]

Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was.

[NFHS @NFHS_Org]

Participating in high school activities boosts self-esteem, self-confidence, and helps to produce a positive outlook on life.

Education-based activities also instill resilience and the ability to handle both success and failure!

#PlayPerformCompeteTogether

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

NEW FRANCHISE RECORD UNLOCKED

8 HOMERS IN ONE GAME

[Jason Shumaker @Coach_Shumaker]

@PFTCommenter Glacier is awesome for mountains and rivers and bears and wolves- Yellowstone is great for bison and the geothermal pools are spectacular. Choosing one- I’m going to Glacier- you’re very deep in the mountains there!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

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 meet Greg Harden, a counselor who worked in the 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 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, he was getting 4 reps. Then 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, “with this new mindset that Greg had 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 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:

In the field of strategic management, there is a distinction made between “lead measures” and “lag measures.”

Lag measures are the results you’re trying to achieve: getting a promotion, winning a championship, being the starting quarterback. Lead measures are the actions that predictably drive those results. 

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” write, is that “a lead measure can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they write (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.

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. But I’ve always 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.”

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“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 didn’t. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

[Northern Colorado Football @UNC_BearsFB]

✍️ 𝑺𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅!

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[HRHS Football @HRHSFootball]

Congrats to @brooks_hamlett for signing a full scholarship with @UNC_BearsFB today! He will do great things in Greeley and be a great representative of @HRHSFootball! Congrats Brooks- we are proud of you and excited for your next step!!

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