David Novak

Teacher and sports nut (especially baseball).

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@William61919513 @MrAzSports Wearing a helmet in hockey seemed stupid until someone died.

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@tArtanyin @4thOfJuly365 You are 100% correct. Excessive use of force for sure. Doesn't excuse the kid from acting the way he did towards staff, but definitely unnecessary by the SRO.

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@RyanTboneryan3 @JavierJMorales If Tucson is too close to Phoenix for minor league baseball, then St. Paul, MN shouldn't have a minor league team as an affiliate of the Twins. Distance has nothing to do with it. If anything, it makes it better.

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@3xOptionShow @TheScriptOSU @CJ1two @OhioStateFB Ohio State doesn't get to claim Burrow, just like Bama doesn't get to claim Hurts.

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@PFTCommenter @BarstoolBigCat Birds are on the hot seat.

[MaxPreps @MaxPreps]

Never thought we'd see this happen again. 🪶🥎

(via @GetGameChanger )

[AZPreps365 @AZPreps365]

The Tanque Verde Hawks are your 3A STATE CHAMPIONS 🏆 #statechampions #softball #tanquverde #winners

[Andy Morales @AndyMorales8]

Tanque Verde 10-0 run rule. 3A state championship

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:

Two kids. One rich. One poor.

Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.

The rich kid has two choices.

Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.

Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.

The poor kid has two choices too.

Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.

Or outwork everyone in the room.

Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.

Same choice for all of them.

Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.

The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.

The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.

Greatness doesn't come from where you start.

It comes from which kid you choose to feed.

Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

[Arizona Athletics @AZATHLETICS]

is it dusty in here or just us

[Mitch Goldich 🐙 @mitchgoldich]

The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

Keep sleeping on Arizona. We love the disrespect.

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

AP All-American Teams are OFFICIAL 👀

Who got it right… and who got snubbed? 🤔⬇️

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@GametimeRC Yuma? Close enough to CA where they could possibly join a conference there,

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@AmiriKing Did Uncle Ruckus write this?

[Anthony Amico @amicsta]

So many things wrong with this:

1) Multi-sport athletes develop and transfer over unique skills that specialists will not have

2) Multi-sport athletes experience less burnout

3) “we support you, but…” isnt honesty or support, its leveraging fear to get guys to quit other sports

I could keep going, but if you’re a young student-athlete reading this, ignore bad coaching like this.

You get to be in high school ONCE. Play all the sports you want, work hard in those sports and any offseasons, and you’ll be the best you can be.

You will ABSOLUTELY not fall behind less talented specialists. IF you are truly a college-bound athlete, playing multiple sports is PROVEN to maximize your abilities long-term!

And if you are an average player in two sports, quitting one doesnt make you better in the other. Have FUN.

Dont shortchange your HS experience bc some coach wants to try and fear-bait you into specializing when we all know the best athletes play anyway.

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

Connor McDavid has been good at losing championships lately.

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@AZSPORTSNETWORK @slytle77 @SanspearMudd Are you originally from MN?

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@AZSPORTSNETWORK @slytle77 @SanspearMudd Where did you graduate from? Was the interview in MN?

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@AZSPORTSNETWORK @slytle77 @SanspearMudd I've never heard of Wolf Ridge, but it looks really interesting. I'll have to keep the summer camp in mind for when my kids get older. I have some family in the Duluth area as well.

[David Novak @NovakAttack53]

@AZSPORTSNETWORK @slytle77 @SanspearMudd Hunter was a damn good athlete, and an even better teammate. I have no idea what he's up to now though haha.