“The most important person they’ll ever have in their life is a coach that holds them accountable on a daily basis. Teaches them work ethic, sacrifice, teamwork,” Dan Hurley
Great coaches develop your character and prepare you for life.
NATIONAL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK 🇺🇸
Joshua Ferguson has been named NAIA National Defensive Player of the Week after last week’s dominant win over Evangel 😤
Congratulations, Joshua!
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This is what coaches mean when they ask is he, “is he coachable?”
Kenneth Walker shows eye contact, intent, and a serious interest in what his coach is teaching
Young athletes, this will take you further than you think
Clinton Portis reveals that before he committed to Miami he asked Edgerrin James if he was leaving for the NFL, and says that’s when Edge taught him to seek competition instead of opportunity
“When I committed to the U, it was from a piece of advice that Edge gave me. We were standing on the field, and I said, ‘You leaving? Are you leaving if I come?’ He said, ‘Man, it shouldn’t matter whether I leave or if I stay.’”
“‘You should want the competition. You don’t want anything given to you.’ And that advice has taken me so far because of the running back rooms I’ve been in. You talk about Willis, Frankie G, Najeh Davenport, James Jackson, and then when I got to Denver, you’ve got Terrell Davis, Mike Anderson, Olandis Gary.”
“I never sat in a room like, ‘Oh shit, this dude is going to beat me out.’ Homeboy, you go out there and practice and show them what you’re capable of. On Sunday, when I go out there and bust his lunch pail, that’s going to change all of that.”
“I remember my first practice in Denver. Terrell was there, and they said, ‘First team, ones come up.’ We had 12 people in the huddle and everybody, Rod Smith, Shannon Sharpe, they’re laughing, ‘Bro, get out of here. Get out of this huddle.’”
“I said, ‘Man, they said ones. They said ones come up.’ There ain’t no two or no three. I’m a one. That was the confidence. There was no beef with Terrell. The competition is what made me thrive.”
“It’s not talent, it’s effort. We have a saying, effort counts twice. If you have talent, that’s great but effort counts twice,” Kirby Smart
Your effort always reveals the truth about your commitment.
Jim Harbaugh says the best leaders on his team make the example of what to do ridiculously simple
“We have so many leaders on our team. Probably the most I can ever think of on any team I’ve ever been on, in terms of being a player or a coach. The amount of example setters, the amount of tone setters that we have.”
“Guys that lead on and off the field. They just give you the perfect example of what to do. You want to know what to do, how to do it, when to do it. Guys that put their entire, not just their heart, their heart and soul into the way they approach this game. Tremendous versions of themselves.”
“It just makes it so easy for the rest of us, really. Watch them. Study them. Emulate them. See if you can go make them proud of you. That standard that they set is incredible.”
Von Miller reveals after Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman suspended him, he packed everything he owned into his truck and started driving to Florida to transfer, when he called his he dad told him not to quit, so he turned around and led the nation with 17.5 sacks the next season
“I had everything I owned in this blanket, and I went to my car. I threw it in the back and I’m driving home. I called my daddy. I’m like, ‘Daddy, man, I’m leaving. Coach Sherman kicked me off the team. I ain’t coming back until I do this and that.’”
“I’m thinking my dad is going, ‘All right, we’re going to find something else.’ He said, ‘Pull that truck over, turn around, and go back to school. You’re not quitting.’”
“I was like, ‘That was not the answer I was looking for.’ He was like, ‘You’re not just about to quit when it gets hard. You’re going to turn that truck back around. You’re going to go back to school and you’re going to fix it.’”
“I had tears going down my face. I was like, ‘Man, this is going to be so hard to fix all of this.’ I turned around. We had a meeting. Coach Sherman told my dad the exact same thing that he told me, and my dad agreed with Coach Sherman.”
“There was nowhere I could go. I just had to face the music. I had to face the truth. That spring was a hard one, but I got my grades up. I made it to all my classes. I went through the checklist of everything Coach Sherman wanted me to do.”
“That following year, my junior year, was the best year that I had up until that day. I led the nation in sacks. I had 17 and a half sacks. My life had totally changed. That was all a testament to running straight through the storm. The shortest way through the storm is straight. I put my head down and I worked, and my life totally changed that offseason.”
College Football is BACK 🏈
The Bulldogs hit the road to open up 2026, taking on Avila University 😤
🆚 Avila University
📍 Kansas City, Missouri
⌚️ 1:00 PM CDT
📺 Urban Edge Network
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The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) is proud to announce that Joshua Ferguson of @MAC_Bulldogs has been named the 2025-26 KCAC Male Student-Athlete Champion of Character! #KCACRootedinExcellence#TheRightWayToPlay
All KCAC Champions of Character Awards are presented by @IMAfinancial.
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This spring @MACBulldogsFB were well represented on the spring honor roll. 61 of our FB student-athletes were recognized in some capacity.
13 earned a 4.0 gpa
27 earned academic honor roll
21 were honorable mention
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