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
This is cool sound but it does little for me. We know Louisville is going to spend top 10 money? Similar stuff has been put out the last 2 years. Also, I’m hoping no one at UofL put this out there. Flaunting your spending didn’t work for UK last year. It was used against them.
A sweet moment after @HUMensBB’s postgame presser:
HC Kenny Blakeney’s daughter Naomi (who btw is an excellent on cam interview) grabs her dad’s name placard as a memento of this HISTORIC day for Howard.
@GaryMarry Again, answering a few simple questions without being shitty IS the issue. Refusing to do so makes it worse and allows the "narrative" you speak of persist. Controlling the narrative is PR 101
@GaryMarry Nah.... that's a cop-out. He's quite literally the center-piece of the roster. No one is crushing PK about not playing him. He's getting crushed for acting as if its beneath him to shed some light on the prognosis of our lottery pick
This is how big time coaches handle questions regarding injured players. Wish PK understood that rather than acting as if it's beneath him to address it.
Also note how many passes Self has gotten over the years as a result of him being non-combative with the press.
Bill Self on Darryn Peterson's status 👀
"He's practiced. It's at a little bit of a different level now, as far as his explosiveness. Unless something unforeseen happens, we should have our full compliment of guys going into Saturday's game"