Coach Fiscus

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[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

McPherson College Football recruiting process starts here ⬇️⬇️

https://t.co/M3eWg3LriG

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

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

https://t.co/772mWmWXnr

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Excelling in all areas! Student-Athlete! 3.24 team GPA

[McPherson Football @MACBulldogsFB]

Make that 4 straight semesters with a team GPA above 3.0 📚✏️

This spring, Bulldog Football earned a 3.24 team GPA, with 76 student-athletes holding cumulative GPAs of 3.0 or higher.

Chasing excellence in the classroom and on the field!

#RiseUp | #ATT

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

@MACBulldogsFB graduating class of 2026! I’m proud of these guys. They held the standard and came to work everyday! They will all go out and make a positive impact on their surrounding environments and they continue to grow and develop as young men! #RiseUp

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

@CoachYashinsky I miss this.

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Work! Compete! Be evaluated!

May 24th!

The best interactions are always live interactions! Offers go out every camp!

https://t.co/yD1GeRgXBA

[Jim Shapiro @jimshapiro]

Ummm…This quote….

“Discipline looks boring until you see what it builds.”

Pure facts.

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

The fundamental details

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“I’m attracted to the dark side of greatness. The gap between a hero and a villain is very similar to the gap between winning and losing and good to great. The gap is so much closer than people think. It’s the very small fundamental details that separate you,” Joe Mazzulla

The immeasurable value of fundamentals.

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Set the tone with your Monday!

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

“It takes what it takes”

[Gerry DeFilippo @Challenger_ST]

🚨 Nick Saban destroying the biggest athlete excuse:

“The illusion of choice.”

“These guys think they have this illusion of choice… like I can do whatever I want.”

Wrong.

You want to be elite?

It takes what it takes.

No half-assing basics.

No skipping the grind.

No “my way” BS.

Lock in on the process… or stay average.

Athletes & coaches — stop buying the illusion…

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Offers are plentiful. Spots are not.

[Nate Longshore @mrlongshore]

The QB offer market is complicated to say the least.

We verified the 2026 cycle across all 67 Power 4 schools and found 1,104 school-side QB "Official" offers. From our count, there were only 31 actual high school QB roster spots given.

That is roughly 36 offers for every 1 real spot.

And 39 of the 67 schools took zero high school quarterbacks.

That is the first reality families need to understand. An "official" offer has value. It reflects evaluation and access. But it is not the same thing as roster allocation.

The second reality is just as important. Many schools may still be acting in good faith when a QB board changes late. The problem is that quarterback recruiting is now one of the most volatile markets in football.

A staff can genuinely like a quarterback in October.

Then in December a coordinator leaves. A current QB stays. A transfer becomes available. A decommitment happens somewhere else. NIL priorities shift. The room changes. The board changes. Sometimes the literal night before signing day.

That does not always mean the offer was fake.

It means quarterback recruiting is a one-spot problem inside a moving market.

That is why families cannot confuse interest with certainty.

The serious question is not just, “Who offered?”

The serious question is, “Who still has both the need and the willingness to give one of their very limited quarterback spots to you when the market tightens?”

That is why QB recruiting is not a volume game.

It is an alignment game.

Offers matter.
Timing matters.
Roster structure matters.
Development matters.
Command matters.

When the board starts moving, the quarterbacks who survive are usually the ones staffs feel most comfortable protecting.

Visibility helps, but alignment is what turns recruiting attention into a real opportunity.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Curt Cignetti on his program's philosophy on how not to be average:

🎭 Average is a decision disguised as a default. Make standards visible, measurable, and non-negotiable. Because what you tolerate becomes your identity.

🤝 Most people negotiate with the work; elite teams eliminate the negotiation. The gap isn’t talent, it’s the daily refusal to accept “good enough” in reps, details, and accountability.

🧱 You don’t rise above average in big moments, you escape it in small ones. Every meeting, drill, and conversation is either reinforcing the standard, or quietly lowering it.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

A team becomes unstoppable when the standards matter more than the feelings.

[Kegan Schumann @SchumannKegan]

Had an awesome @Revive_Perf event yesterday hosted by @MACBulldogsFB : 150+ registrants with 22+ states represented.

@CoachJFisc and his staff know how to host an awesome recruiting event for talented athletes.

Thank you to all of the people that helped us make this event happen!

@CoachLeppke @coach_rewerts @LakenWebb04 @Mitch_henryBU @natep_28 @cargile_wade @PreWarWesley : Rest of McPherson College coaching staff!

A special thank you to the best in the business @MarketAthletes on capturing all the video/photo of the event. Market Athletes will be posting event results within the next couple days!

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Standards are simply highly repeatable behavioral patterns.

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

@QBTucker Once you understand that the world doesn’t care about your problems it frees you to find solutions.

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Probably data driven

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

This is what the University of Houston president and many in academics emphasized years ago when I was there.

Athletic success increases prestige. It increases your reach, interest, and name recognition.

Often, leading to better students and a boost in alumni donations.

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Lots of common themes across the great coaches in all sports….

[James Light @JamesALight]

Houston HC Kelvin Sampson - Why Coaches Fail

- "I think the coaches that fail at every level, are the coaches that are passive aggressive. Passing aggressive coaches are usually afraid to hold kids accountable, they rationalize."

- "If you're going to build a culture, the first thing you have to come to grips with, you're going to have confrontation."

- Consistency
- Competence
- Confidence
- Confrontation

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

"If you keep your nose down in life and keep working, anything is possible." - Curt Cignetti

[Coach Fiscus @CoachJFisc]

Truth

[Sam Lance @slancehoops]

Coach Cal praised HPU for flying students out postgame.

He added: “Administrations win championships. Coaches win games. In this era of NIL, if you’re not totally into it and they’re not committed, you’re not winning. You just can’t. And High Point is.”

Worth the full listen.