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
A final Transfer Portal Update:
10,965 NCAA football players entered the portal.
- 3,972 FBS
- 2,771 FCS
- 4,222 D2/D3
Many have signed and are enrolled at new schools.
But 6,671 NCAA football players are active and hoping to sign.
- 1,619 FBS
- 1,782 FCS
- 3,270 D2/D3
40% of FBS portal guys are still looking.
64% of FCS portal guys are still looking.
77% of D2 and D3 portal guys are still looking.
Find a school. Get coached-up. Earn a degree. Win some ball games. Create relationships. Change your life.
And use #PortalSZN wisely.
This clip from JaMarcus Shephard's opening press conference is a must-watch for any leader.
"I get up in the morning, I look in the mirror, and I say to myself, ‘There’s someone who needs you today, big dog. They need you. They need you now....They need you today. I don’t care what’s going on in your life right now. Go help them."
Someone needs you today. Not when your schedule clears. Not when life feels easier. Today.
You can’t schedule when someone will need you. You can only choose to be there when they do.
📹: OSU Beaver Athletics
You had money for turf.
You had money for new scoreboards.
You had money for branding and upgrades.
You had money to add more administrators to schools.
But you never had money to pay the people who make it all matter.
Districts ignored us. Unions never fought for us.
Tomorrow the silence ends and accountability begins.
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#PayFLCoaches
I got a call from a parent yesterday. A coach from the NAIA level came out to watch his son play last Friday night. The kid has no offers. The coach was ready to offer the kid and spoke with the AD about it. The AD told the coach that the kid was better than the NAIA level, so he didn't offer.
High school administration and coaches don't kill an opportunity for a kid based on your opinion.
"Good players want to be coached.
And there are a lot of coaches now that are afraid to coach guys.
The best players...want somebody to help them get better-somebody to develop them-somebody to coach them."
Average players only seek praise.
Great players seek to be pushed.
Has the “who won the scrimmage” culture hurt the development and seeing where your backups fit in the depth chart that scrimmages are supposed to be about??
Another amazing day to be a “Black Knight” football player. Embrace the day gentlemen and always keep your eyes on the goal. @MoValleyFB@MV_Knights@MVSDAthletics