George Pierson

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kelvin Sampson explains what great coaching looks like and why coaching is really teaching.

"What is it that you learned new today? Write it down so you don't forget it."

"Make a list of the things you learned. Then go find an assistant coach tomorrow and say, 'Here's the things I learned today. Can you show me what coach meant with video?'"

Learn how your players best learn and meet them where they are.

"Coach's job is to figure out who learns at what rate. There's nothing wrong with any rate they learn."

Then he dropped the line every coach needs to hear:
"Nothing's ever been learned until it's been taught. And nothing's ever been taught until it's been learned."

"Our job is not coaching. You coach during a game. But in practice every day, you're a teacher."

"Our job is to teach these kids to the best of our abilities and help them learn."

This is what great coaching looks like.

The best coaches are teachers first.
(🎥 @ChrisYBaldwin)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.”

— Denzel Washington

[Drew Maddux @DrewMaddux]

As a leader or coach...Your culture is a combination of what create and what you allow! 💯

[conduct|r @conductr_]

David f*cking Goggins, what a line…

“When your entire day is fucked up, make sure that you achieve something positive before lights out. You’ll probably have to stay up a bit later to read, study, get a workout in, or clean the house. Whatever it takes to go to bed in the black, get it done.“

[Luke Falk @coachlukefalk]

Every training camp I had at Washington State University, Coach Leach would share the same story.
The story of two kids. The rich kid and the poor kid.

The rich kid has two choices. He can become spoiled, entitled, lazy, and expect everything to be handed to him because he has been given more. Or he can take every advantage of what he has been given—resources, coaching, opportunities—and use it to become even better.

The poor kid has two choices too. He can say, “I never had a chance. Nobody gave me anything. The world is against me.” He can feel sorry for himself and use it as an excuse. Or he can say, “I may not have what they have, but I am going to outwork everybody.” He can become tougher, more driven, and more relentless than everybody else.

It was a powerful message in a locker room full of people from different backgrounds, different families, and different life experiences. Some guys came from wealth. Some came from almost nothing. Some had every opportunity. Others had to fight for every inch.

But despite all of those differences, everybody still had the same choice.

You can take ownership and use what you have as fuel.

Or you can become victim-minded. You can look for excuses, blame your circumstances, become entitled, and convince yourself that because of what you have—or because of what you do not have—you cannot become what you want to be.

It is not about how you start. It is about what you choose to do with how you start.

The rich kid can waste what he has been given or use it to build something greater. The poor kid can use his circumstances as an excuse or as fuel.

In the end, greatness does not come from starting with more or less. It comes from which person inside of you that you choose to feed.

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[Christopher Rauscher @rauscher25]

So exemptions can be made??
Erk Russell @GSAthletics_FB
Resurrected GS Football in ‘81
1982-1989 (83-22-1)
3x Natty (‘85, ‘86, ‘89)
17 yr DC at @GeorgiaFootball

Explain yourself @NFFNetwork

#DoRight #HailSouthern
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[Riley Jensen @RileyJensen]

30 years ago I was the starting QB at Utah State University. My senior year I got benched. For the next 15 years I walked around feeling like a certified loser. Then I read this quote from Pat Summitt:
'Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point.
Wanting to win is the point.
Not giving up is the point.
Never letting up is the point.
Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.'
It snapped me out of it. If you’re still carrying a sports setback, a benching, a missed opportunity, or any “I’m not enough” story… this is your permission slip to drop it. The game isn’t over. Your story is not yet written. You are still a work in progress. The point is you keep wanting it. You keep getting up. And you listen to that quiet voice that says, "I will try again tomorrow."

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

KIRBY SMART ON BEING GREAT

"There's one way. The right way. The hard way. There are no shortcuts.

When the alarm goes off...if you wanna be a really good player, you're gonna get up & go to class.

You've gotta do something somebody else isn't willing to do."

~@TerryCollege

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Mike Leach shares a must-listen postgame message on resilience, adversity, and failure.

"Nothing is really, really, really fun unless it's hard. Nothing is really fun unless it's hard."

"We've got to embrace that things are gonna be hard. We've got to embrace to be excited when things are hard."

Successful people don't fear obstacles - they embrace them.

"You gotta embrace to be excited about it being hard and playing extremely hard."

"Even if you get way up on somebody, you want to be as hard as you possibly can because you're pushing yourself. And all of a sudden you're making great plays, you're doing things that you've never done before."

Growth requires discomfort. You have to be willing to look bad before you get better.

Then he ended with one line:
"Embrace the fact that it's hard. Never hope that it's easy."

If you only chase what's easy, you'll never become great.

Embrace the hard because that is where growth, success, and character are built.
(🎥 Washington State)

[Tyler Horka @tbhorka]

Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman is OK with occasional, brief, physical altercations to settle scores in practices. He likens them to brothers fighting.

“If we don’t have scuffles or tussles then we’re probably not as competitive as I aspire to have our team to be.”

Football guy.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

“Hear Me…”

Mike Tomlin GOLD 🔥

“It’s not what you are capable of; it’s what you are willing to do. Plenty of people are capable. Fewer people are willing.”

Potential is common.
Commitment is rare.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Underrated coaching truth:
The best coaches aren’t obsessed with talent.

They’re obsessed with effort.
With attitude.
With toughness.

Because when it gets hard,
that’s what still shows up.

[Scott Farley @CoachFarley7]

True story!

[George Pierson @Coach__Pierson]

@krassenstein @Mavjonesdotcom Clinton has never lied under oath before?

[College Transfer Portal @CollegeFBPortal]

Indiana HC Curt Cignetti:

“I’ve never practiced 15 times in the spring yet and never practiced 25 times in fall camp.”

[gmannVOLS @gmannVOLS]

Curt Cignetti has a fascinating philosophy...don't waste anyone's time, coaches not expected to work nights just get work done, limited practice to keep players healthy

[Dr. Jim Afremow @goldmedalmind]

#TheChampionsMind 🏆 #reset