Chris Ross

Offensive Coordinator at Tarleton State University / Husband, Father, Thankful / Go Texans!

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

It’s UAC Football Kickoff Media Day! 🎥

All are welcome to join us at Texas Live! We’ll be on the stage and on ESPN+ from 12:46-12:56 p.m.

Watch on ESPN+: https://t.co/8nbLkYMG4N

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

Lights, Camera, Action! 📸🎥

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

Single-game tickets are now on sale for our 2026 home slate 💥

Details: https://t.co/7EgE58MOx7
Tickets: https://t.co/Szx4EZF7YZ

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

The official championship rings for your 2025 Tarleton State Texans 🔥

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

The 2025 team returns tonight for a special ceremony, as the Texans will receive their conference championship rings 🔥

Stay tuned…

[Tarleton State University @TarletonState]

We love summer, but we have an itch...

#TarletonState #BleedPurple

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Big year incoming for RB Tylan Hines ✍️

Congrats to Hines for earning a spot on the Walter Payton Award Preseason Watch List, the annual national offensive player of the year award!

Story: https://t.co/Yb8pIbo0kK

[Tarleton State University @TarletonState]

Tarleton State will host the first-ever Chancellor's Cup on Aug. 29 as Prairie View A&M comes to Memorial Stadium for a new Texas A&M System tradition! 💜 🏈

Learn more: https://t.co/bPaUdqJOyY

#TarletonState #BleedPurple

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Preseason All-Americans ⭐️

Congrats to Aidan Moe and DeAndre Buchannon for earning a spot on the 2026 Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America Second Team!

Story: https://t.co/QGe2QpclEV

[TodayInSports @TodayInSportsCo]

America is great. Happy 4th. 🇺🇸

[Tara LaRosa @TaraLaRosa]

Greatest new song to come out of the World Cup! ⚽️❤️🇺🇸 Welcome To The Land Of The Free!🇺🇸❤️⚽️

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

-Cicero

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

Two camps in the books with many more to go! Next up is our High School Elite Camp, which starts a week from today!

Register: https://t.co/Yl3fNRv4uv

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

Enjoyed hosting our first camp of the summer! 🌞

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

Had a great time at the first Duck Camp of the summer!

Thanks to Coach Whitten, James Paige and Tanner Schmidt for speaking to Tarleton State’s newest Texans 🐥

[Chris Ross @ChrisRossTSU]

“Talent wasn’t the hardest thing to find. It was finding people who wanted the pressure that comes with being great.” -Tom Brady
Success isn’t about being occasionally great, it is being consistently good! Success in any competitive endeavor takes what it takes! Do the work.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tom Brady reveals the overlooked reason practice squad players never succeed in the NFL

It’s not a lack of talent.

Brady watched it happen for 20 years. The pattern was undeniable.

As soon as a practice squad player got promoted and had to perform under real pressure, they crumbled. It took years for Brady to understand why.

“There’s 53 guys on the active roster and there’s now 15 guys on the practice squad. So there’s 68 players. But those practice squad players are important because if anybody on the active roster gets hurt, they can get elevated to the squad.”

“These scout team receivers would come in and practice with the scout team and they do really well. And I’d be watching. I’m like, ‘Man, we got to get that guy. Let’s get him up on offense. He’s making a lot of plays.’”

“Then all of a sudden, we’re like, ‘Hey man, you’re doing really well. You got to come over here and deal with the pressure of succeeding now that you have expectation.’”

“And these guys are like, they weren’t prepared for it. So whatever we saw in practice against where there was not a lot of pressure, now when they’re put in a situation where there’s an expectation for performance, they’ve never had to personally deal with that and then they fail.”

“And then what I realized was a lot of guys on those practice squads, they don’t want to be elevated to the roster.”

“They’re very happy living this life where they could tell their family and friends, which I have no problem with that. But the reality is a lot of guys don’t want the pressure of dealing with top.”

Twenty years in the league and seven Super Bowl rings later, Brady learned that talent wasn’t the hardest thing to find.

It was people who actually wanted the pressure that comes with being great.

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

A message to @TarletonBase and @TarletonXCTrack from Coach Whitten 🗣️

Keep your historic seasons going, good luck this weekend, Texan Football will be cheering you on! 👏👏

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

Our season opener game time and network have been announced!

Tarleton State will open 2026 under the lights against Prairie View A&M on ESPN 2 🔥

Story: https://t.co/CWradJAuyS

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Tarleton State Football thanks all who have fought for our country, and on this Memorial Day, honor and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice 🇺🇸

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.