Leaving a legacy on and off the field. 🎓🏈
Congratulations to our Fall 2026 graduates! Proud of everything you've accomplished.
Forever a Moc.
#ClimbtheMountain
Different journeys, same mission. 🔵 🟡
Celebrating the seniors who have given their all to this program, on and off the field.
Thank you, seniors, and #GoMocs
— Win the Day
Hebrews 12:11 - For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
We were excited to support the Athens County Back to School Kickoff & join others committed to helping students start the year prepared. We’re grateful for our communities who continue to uplift local youth & families, and hope everyone has a great start to the school year! 📚🍎
A coach’s job is not to protect you from hard truths.
It is to care enough to confront you, correct you and push you toward the person and player you can become.
Kirby Smart says the transfer portal has made too many coaches forget what the word “coach” means
“That’s what the word ‘coach’ is. It derived from 'stagecoach'… Where you took somebody from one place to the other.”
“Where are you taking your players… Instead of shipping them off or importing them from elsewhere?”
“Now it’s you coaching against me… And me coaching against you. Who makes their players better?”
“In the second portal window, there was very little effective movement. I call it ‘swap and spit.’ You just took somebody else’s two or three… And they took your two or three… You traded… And all you got was a new person.”
“Over 80% of the people had no impact. All they were doing was moving to move. They were just moving to move.”
“Let’s make our players better. Let’s say the ones we lifted and practiced with all last winter… They’re ours now.’”
“And they’re better now because they stayed here.”
Marcus Freeman says caring for players solely to produce better results is manipulation, and genuine love usually produces better results anyway
“It’s why you do what you do. I’m a competitive dude. I want to be the best at what I do. But that’s not why I do what I do.”
“I truly want to make sure the young people you coach are better football players and better men because they chose to play football at a place you’re the leader of.”
“It isn’t about wins and losses as much as…‘I want this young person to be better because of the time we spent together.’ That means caring about him as an individual. Caring about his family.”
“You don’t do that for me to win games. But you know what? It helps.”
“At times I’m hard on them. But they know I care about them. ‘I love you.’ ‘Now I’m going to get after your ass.’ ‘I’m going to get after you, but I love you.’”
“When you feel that way about somebody… That’s when you’ll run through a brick wall.”
🚨🚨DIABOLICAL🚨🚨
Texas A&M HC Mike Elko was asked how he keeps his players from becoming satisfied.
Reporter: “How do you keep your players from being satisfied?”
Elko: “I show them our trophy case, and it’s empty.”
Holy crap 😭😭😭
🎥 Top Coaching Clip of the Week
💭 Robert Saleh shares a leadership lesson that every Head Coach should hear:
When coaches describe their ideal assistant, they often end up describing... themselves. That's a natural bias. But great staffs aren't built by surrounding yourself with people who think, coach, and lead exactly like you do.
🔥 Great staffs are built by finding the coaches who complete you. Coach Saleh explains that diversity goes far beyond backgrounds or appearances. It's about bringing together coaches with different strengths, personalities, teaching styles, and perspectives. Because no single coach can give a player everything.
The best staffs know their own strengths.
The best staffs know their own blind spots.
And the best leaders intentionally surround themselves with people who fill those gaps.
🚀 That's exactly what Coach Portal believes.
Building an elite staff isn't about finding ten versions of the same coach. It's about identifying the right mix of people who challenge one another, complement one another, and collectively serve players at the highest level.
For hiring coaches and athletic directors, one of the most important questions isn't simply:
"Is this coach good?"
It's:
"Does this coach make our staff better?"
📈 Great teams are built by great staffs. Great staffs are built through intentional balance, trust, and complementary strengths.
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