Simmon Harjo, M. Ed

Teacher/Coach @midwaychargers Husband to @tmharjo, Father to @HarjoAcee @HarjoRayna @CD_Harjo Grace West and @Harjo_Makhan, Mafo to Bri, JB, Nuggy & Novalee.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Darryl Strawberry says World Series rings, All-Star success and fame still couldn't fill what he calls the "empty void" in his life.

The MLB legend shares how his mother's prayers and his wife, Tracy, led him back to church, where he says he found new life through faith in Jesus Christ.

"Jesus is the way. All these other ways that we go, we find ourselves in darkness. We find ourselves trying to fill the empty void with all this stuff, and it just does not fill it."

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

Thinking about football.

[Brian Baldinger @BaldyNFL]

Field work in 107 degree heat at the 9th annual #SackSummit. 2 handed swipe to knock the grubby OL hands off and then the bend to turn the corner to get the QB. #BaldysBreakdowns

[James Purchin @JamesPurchin]

The best cultures don’t happen by accident.
They’re built with intention.

Dan Lanning said they spent 4 months defining the DNA of their program before ever putting it on a wall.

4 traits:

Connection - because players fight harder for people they truly know.

Growth - win or lose, it's “growth week.” The standard is always improving.

Toughness - handling hard without flinching.

Sacrifice - being okay with the team winning even when you don’t get the spotlight.

That’s leadership.

Not just demanding standards…
but building an environment where people want to live them out.

[Simmon Harjo, M. Ed @revharjo]

@deionkburks Congratulations!!! And thank you for coming back to OU when you didn’t have too!!

[Michael Stroup 🏴‍☠️🌊 @CoachStroup]

Everybody wants discipline… until discipline gets loud.
Everybody wants toughness… until toughness gets uncomfortable.

Hard coaching isn’t abuse.
Hard coaching is correction.
Hard coaching is standards.
Hard coaching is loving a kid enough not to let him stay average.

If a coach is demanding effort, detail, toughness, and accountability bothers you… that probably says more about today’s culture than it does the coach.

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

Rick Barnes said if he were a Football Coach, he would run the Single Wing 😂

[Coach Cam Jones @Coach_Cam_Jones]

“Administrations win championships. Coaches win games… if you’re not totally into it and they’re not committed, you’re not winning. You just can’t.”

True at the high school level as well…
https://t.co/iZQ3cnnXjD

[Simmon Harjo, M. Ed @revharjo]

2025-26 Midway Chargers Football Highlights - Council Hill, OK https://t.co/QZTlvsrlfU via @YouTube

[Don Williams @Don_K_Williams]

Athlete: Coach… I think I want to quit.

Coach: Okay. Then let’s talk about why.

Athlete: I’m tired. All the early mornings, the pain, the pressure. Sometimes I wake up and wonder what I’m even doing this for.

Coach: That’s not quitting. That’s being human. Doubt shows up when you’re close to something that matters.

Athlete: But I’m not even sure I’m good enough. I look around and see people stronger, faster… happier.

Coach: Comparison is a liar. It shows you everyone’s surface but hides their struggle. You don’t need to be better than them. You need to be better than yesterday.

Athlete: What if I never win? What if I give everything and still fall short?

Coach: Then you’ll walk away with something most never touch—truth. The kind you only find when you’ve emptied yourself for something bigger than comfort.

Athlete: So… you think I should keep going?

Coach: I think you already know the answer. You wouldn’t be having this conversation if you truly wanted to stop. You just want someone to remind you that it’s worth it.

Athlete: It hurts, Coach. Some days, it really hurts.

Coach: Good. That means you care. And nothing worth having comes without pain. Now breathe. You’ve made it through every hard day so far.
Most quit before the breakthrough!

Don’t be like most!

[SEC Unfiltered @SECUnfiltered]

2025 SECU Tour Superlatives via @CPhilly19

Did your favorite school make the list?

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

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[Tony Shiffman @CoachShiffman]

Some do it for money, some do it for ego. Most do it because it’s in our blood.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

POWERFUL: #Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones revealed in the locker room that he found GOD this week 🙏

“I felt stuck, missing something. It was God.”

“Got back on my knees, started praying. It’s bigger than this. I got my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ back

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

The Costs of Leadership: Kirby Smart

1. You will make hard decisions that negatively affect people.

2. You will be disliked despite your best attempts to do the best for the most.

3. You will be misunderstood & won't have the chance to defend yourself.

[The REF @KREFsports]

19 years ago today: The LEGENDARY freestyle from Malcolm Kelly after winning the 2006 Big 12 Championship Game over Nebraska.

“OU boys, they my brothers, they my friends.”

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Walt Disney once told Charles Schulz he wasn't good enough to draw background art.

Form letter. Very polite.

"We only hire the very finest artists."

Sparky wasn't one of them.

His yearbook rejected his cartoons. His school gave him a zero in physics. He failed every subject in eighth grade.
Every. Single. One.

The other kids called him "Sparky" — after a horse in a comic strip.

They were calling him an animal.

Paul Harvey said it best:

"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."

So this invisible boy did something strange.

He didn't try to prove Disney wrong.

He wrote his autobiography in cartoons instead.

Named the main character after himself.

Charlie Brown.

A kid whose kite never flies. Whose team never wins. Whose crush never notices him.

Then Schulz did something the network executives hated.

He put Luke 2 at the center of his Christmas special.

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy..."

They told him to cut it.

Too religious.

He refused.

Christmas Eve, millions of families will watch that scene.

A loser became the messenger.

Disney said he wasn't good enough.

God said otherwise.

[Boom_Soon Fan @boom_soonerfan]

@secnumbersguy

[John Reneau @JohnReneau]

@marlon_humphrey

[Casey B @Lejamesbraun34]

@marlon_humphrey We’re 2-0 vs y’all
2-0 vs Auburn, we own the state of Alabama