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Husband, Dad, Coach, Veteran. #SaaS

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7 years
If you are an OC, or aspiring OC, you need to check out this awesome Game and Practice planning resource!
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Why do you practice? This is powerful, and covers every aspect of life!
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Hey America.... This is how you are supposed to treat each other.
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The sportsmanship between Southlake Carroll and Duncanville is awesome. 🤝 #respect @Duncanville_Fb @SLCAthletics
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I don’t care what sport it is, this is on point. Body language matters. Attitude matters. Caring about your teammates matters. And, accountability to those things matters. I screwed this up a few times. Never change the standard because someone is talented
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Dawn Staley on what she looks for in a recruit: 🔥“If they respect their parents, they are going to respect us. If they don’t respect their parents, we don’t have a shot.” ‼️Coach Staley is one of the best coaches of any sport at any level.
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High school athletics is one of the greatest educational investments a community can make for empowerment, academic intervention, and dropout prevention!
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First, Scout team matters. Second, value the guys on your scout team. Most teams don’t have the sheet depth of talent that Georgia has, but every team can give the best look possible with the talent you do have. Make it important.
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For all you athletes who don’t want to attend summer workouts. ‼️If you don’t go to summer workouts, you there is a very special place reserved for you during games in the fall.
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Every job the HC gives you is important. If the head coach assigns you laundry, do the laundry like it’s going be the difference in winning a championship. Every job, no matter how small, is vital to organizational success.
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But I didn’t get enough reps… His rep is your rep. When he gets coached, you get coached.
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🚨Everyone needs to give this a listen! Randall Zimmerman from Junction City, Kansas gives coaching 101. 💥 “7.6% of kids will play college sports, but 100% of them will be adults.” How are we using our platform to prepare them for adulthood?
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If you want to know what you should do when you are in line for a drill, watch #59 . He isn’t accidentally in the NFL. If you want to be a professional in your craft, be a professional with your craft. Cool guys wish they were him.
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Someone is a B team backup that needs to hear this. Wherever you are right now doesn’t matter. The important question is, what are you willing to do intentionally to get where you want to go?
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High School Football is the greatest dropout prevention and college and career readiness program schools can invest in. Add to this all other sports, band, music, choir, theater, chess club, robotics, and nearly other every school sponsored extra-curricular activity.
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Let’s clear up the confusion right now.
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Many football teams have lost their first game and went on to have successful seasons. And many teams won their first game and had poor seasons. It’s not whether you won or lost, it’s how much effort you put into correcting mistakes and moving forward.
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This is what physical offensive line play looks like on a screen.
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The weight room is about much more than lifting weights. While strength and explosiveness are vital, the most important part of the weight room is proving discomfort and adversity, where athletes can come together as a family and develop a brotherhood.
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🔥Every coach should watch this! ‼️This is championship mentality in practice. ⁉️Are you “living and dying by that moment in practice,” or are you just getting a rep? 🔑Make it matter in practice by creating pressure through intense competition.
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🚨Head Coaches🚨 You need to promote your assistant coaches in public as much as you can. You are at the front of the program and everyone knows you are the boss. Put the spotlight on your assistant coaches every chance you get.
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That is the worst call that ever happened in a football game. That’s embarrassing for the Big 10 officials. You can’t award a fumble when the officials have blow on a play dead. So whistles are meaningless. That’s the second time Iowa got screwed by the replay booth.
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I get it. You are a fan and you want your team to win. But until you spend 90 hours preparing a game plan and practice plans, evaluating practice film leading meetings, and everything else that goes into coaching, simply root for your team. You don’t know as much as the coaches.
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Athletes: If your coach is calling you out for little things, it is because he loves you enough to hold you accountable to being your very best!
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It is actually beneficial to lift heavy in season. Many avoid it because it is uncomfortable. The Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation found that it reduces injuries while helping athletes increase vertical jump and quickness in-season.
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6’8 basketball player- months into his season with a smooth easy 315lb deeeeeeep squat!!! Strong in season!!
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🚨Scout Team matters. Scout team is not only for preparing the starters, it is for the guys on scout team to get better. ‼️If you are a coach in charge of the scout team, treat it like it’s your team and get better as a coach. 👉Everyone gets better!
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Don’t say in October that your coach didn’t give you a shot. You get your shot every single day in the weight room, on the track, and in practice. You have 240 days until the first game. That means you have 240 shots to get on the field. What will you do with them?
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Three things every coach should do in their first three years: 1. Coach 7th Grade B Team 2. Mow and stripe practice fields 3. Coach a position on both sides of the ball
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The struggle is real! That’s why you don’t need 432 pages in the scout book.
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Head coaches: Give your assistant coaches opportunities to speak in front of the team. It will help them grow while giving your players another voice to hear the message you want conveyed.
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If you are an AD in a multi-school district, you should hold a Head Coaching Academy once a year. Bring in your coaches who aspire to be HC’s and teach them about all the things head coaches do. Have retired coaches to deliver presentations. Plant seeds and watch them grow.
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One of the toughest parts of coaching is balancing the opportunity to help people who are struggling, while maintaining your program standards. If you have to lower your standards and accountability to keep them, you might not be able to help them.
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🚨HS Recruiting Coordinators: Do not let a kid commit to a D2, NAIA, or D3 until they have seen the financial aid package. A lot of kids hear scholarship and think full ride. Then that sticker shock hits. The school must be a good fit academically, athletically, and financially.
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Leadership lesson from Alabama QB Jalen Milroe as he is hyped up for Ty Simpson. This is what you do when you get replaced.
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If you want to be D1 but you are too tired to workout or too tired to pay attention in class, you better prepare to be D-None.
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To all my friends in Nebraska… you hit a home run with the hire of Matt Rhule. He will build a program that competes for the Big 10 West championship every year. It will not happen overnight. Be patient and let him build it for sustained success. He will build something special.
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The Nick Saban segment with Pat McAfee should be mandatory viewing for every coach. Coach Saban here talks about the mindset you need to have and how you always need to strive to add value.
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It amazes me how people who have never attended a practice, meeting, or off-season workout think they know more than a group of men who are at every practice and meeting, and are experts at their craft.
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When your coach or teacher calls you out they are not picking on you. They care enough about you to hold you accountable to being your best!
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Two things every man thinks they can do. Grill a steak and call offensive plays.
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Don’t worry about your title, or whether you call the plays or get to have input. Take great pride in being the head coach of your position and make your unit the best it can be. If you are worried about your title you can’t help the team. Embrace your role with enthusiasm!
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With fall camp underway, it is important to put your footballs in the proper bag after practice.
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5 years
Lifting weights is vital to getting stronger. But fueling your body before and after workouts is equally important. Chocolate milk, hard boiled eggs, bananas, and peanut butter are simple things to fuel your body and build muscles.
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If you can competitively run the 400 you can do just about anything. Track is transformational for many athletes.
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‼️Daddy ball coaching points 📢Call the “touchdown play!” 📢Block somebody! 📢Tackle him! 📢Quit running the same play! 📢Quit throwing the ball! 📢Quit running the ball! 💥These are just a few of top coaching points I heard from the experts in the stands this weekend.
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As a head coach, AD, superintendent, principal, manager, or CEO, this is a mantra for success.
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2 years
Great leaders Do 3 Things: 1. Serve those they are entrusted to lead 2. Develop those they lead to be the best they can be 3. Grow those they lead into great leaders Poor leaders use others to serve them and their goals, and don’t work to develop and grow the people they lead.
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The quickest way to destroy a team is to have different standards for different players.
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If your coach is holding you accountable to be your best and getting you out of your comfort zone, it’s because he cares.
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If your best athletes are lazy and set a poor example, hold them accountable. If your team is struggling and those guys aren’t your hardest workers, you will not find success. Sometimes the best thing to do is let your culture killers watch from the stands, regardless of talent.
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OLB’s and DE’s: Running upfield is not setting an edge. Be physical at the point of attack and play the heel line until you know it’s pass.
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Ohio State Defensive Coordinator and Linebacker Coach Jim Knowles is one of the best coaches at all levels of football at developing fundamentals. Here he talks about his Box and Dice Drills. These can be done year round to develop linebacker hips.
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If your coach is holding you accountable it’s because he cares deeply about you, and doesn’t want you to feel the pain or knowing you could have done more.
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If your grades suck, it is going to be very hard to get recruited, no matter how talented you are. If you have below a 2.3 in your core courses (English, Math, Science, and Social Studies) you are sabotaging yourself.
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The two places you will find the self professed best coaches in America at any level.
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If you’re a HC, help guys on your staff be HC’s. If you are a coordinator, help guys on your staff become coordinators. You should know the goals of the guys on your staff and do everything you can to help them achieve their goals, not simply help you achieve your goals.
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The biggest regret I have is all the unnecessary time I spent away from my own family, and how many hours I kept our offensive staff from their families. You can’t get that time back. Find a way to be efficient and value people’s time. The xtra hours don’t always mean more points
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This is culture right here. What a great example of love!
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If you want to move up in the coaching profession you must be willing to embrace doing the tasks that no one wants to do. If you act like a job is beneath you, then you are sabotaging yourself. Act like that task is the difference between winning and losing... Because it is
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Football Twitter > Political Twitter
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This is from an article about Alabama's mentality. They interviewed S&C coach Scott Cochran.
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If a college coach saw you in the hallway, would he be more likely to recruit you or less likely? Act as if someone important is always 👀
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The Bible said it best. Those who are humble will be exalted, and those who exalt themselves will be humbled. Never forget that it’s bigger than you. The minute you think you are bigger than it, it will come crashing down on top of you. Humble yourself or you will be humbled.
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One of the top baseball programs in the country lifting heavy the day before a game. Every great program lifts in-season. Not only for strengh, but for injury prevention. Strength and conditioning is vital to your success in every sport.
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Zach Dechant
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Instead of cake for his birthday we ate IRON this am at UCLA. Game day primer with doubles in the 60% range and a few 70+% singles up to 438# to finish. HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY @lukenb9 💪🏻🐸 @TCU_Baseball #FrogLegs
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The first key to coaching offensive line is build a physical, dominating mentality. You aren’t there to match a hat for a hat. You must create an expectation for moving the line of scrimmage. Technique is important, but the mentality you build is equally as important.
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When you think about cutting sets in the weight room, you need to remember that feeling you had when you lost in November. #neveragain
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The weight room is the great equalizer. This is proven on Friday Nights across America.
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The most important role of coaches has nothing to do with Xs and Os. The most important thing we do is use our sport as a catalyst to teach work ethic, humility, teamwork, accountability, and responsibility. We teach young people how to be a part of something bigger than yourself
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Defense Simplified: Line up right, get your eyes in the right place, play with great technique, tackle well, create takeaways, and play with great effort.
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If you run a play that gashes the defense, call it again. If they can’t stop it, cover the call sheet and keep calling the play they can’t stop until they adjust to stop it. Then call the complement to take advantage of adjustment they made.
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Before you can be D1, you've got to be D1 in the classroom. And if a teacher has to constantly be on you to do work, you ain't D1.
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Bad academic habits are the fastest way to go from D-1 to D-none.
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This is a starting running back blocking on kick return. Special teams matter.
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Cody Hills
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My goodness, Gavin Williams, there’s children watching this game. #Hawkeyes
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If your teammate isn't at workouts, call him and find out why he isn't here. Better yet, go pick him up and drive him to workouts!
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How you treat the kid who will never play a meaningful down for you says a lot about who you really are as a coach.
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For you young coaches, this is a time when a lot of work has to be done that isn’t fun. Dressing the sled, folding clothes, cleaning lockers and cleaning out equipment rooms aren’t fun. Doesn’t matter. Take great pride in the not fun stuff. Every job delegated to you is important
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The greatest thing a parent can say after their child’s game is: “I love watching you play and I am so proud of you.”
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The 400 is not only a great event, but it builds mental toughness and elite mindset.
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Whether you are 0-2, or 2-0, you have 8 games left. For many, district hasn’t started yet. Every goal you have is within reach. Fix what needs to get fixed and focus on your team. Your goal is to make improvements from one week to the next.
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‼️Everyone should take 40 seconds and listen to this! You’ve got to be accountable. It’s bigger than talent.
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Pass interference?
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Athletes, you will either be on your highlight film, or your opponent’s highlight film. Remember that when you want to skip a set or a rep during summer workouts.
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My first year as an OC several years ago, we ran Iso 18 plays in a row to start the 2nd half of a game. I wasn't smart enough to do that, but I had a great head coach telling me, "don't call another play!" I was smart enough to listen.
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Want to improve your graduation rate? Want better attendance? Want higher scores on state tests? Want less discipline incidents? Want more kids who go to college, trade school, or the military? Invest in athletics and extra-curricular activities and hire great people to lead them
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High School Football is the greatest dropout prevention and college and career readiness program schools can invest in. Add to this all other sports, band, music, choir, theater, chess club, robotics, and nearly other every school sponsored extra-curricular activity.
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Here are Five Simple Things You Can Do To Increase Your Grades.
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⁉️But I didn’t get enough reps… ‼️10X your reps 👉His rep is your rep. When he gets coached, you get coached. 🔑When he goes, you go. 🧨You can stand in line and watch, or you can take the rep with him.
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Your defensive scheme doesn’t matter if you can’t tackle. Spend more time teaching leverage, angles, and tackling than you spend on fancy schemes. Too many guys are leaving their feet and trying to tackle from distance.
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Young Coaches: Don’t be the guy who thinks he knows so much that he doesn’t have to learn. If you get to that point either change or quit.
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If you’re a ball coach you’re always a ball coach. Great ball coaches love taking ball with other ball coaches. Anywhere, anytime.
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Just a couple 🐐s talking ball.
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Summer workouts is about more than getting stronger. It is as much about building relationships and growing as a team!
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I was talking with a buddy today about what makes a great coach. Here are 20 keys...
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You want to know how to tell if a team is reaching its full potential? Watch the best players. If the best players are the hardest workers, the team will reach its potential. If the best players are lazy and entitled and give poor effort, that team will always underachieve.
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Everybody has a great attitude when things are going well. The true measure is your attitude when the world around you seems to be collapsing. How you handle seemingly insurmountable adversity is the true measure of a man.
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10 Things That Will Sabotage Your Future.
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This is leadership. The world says you should be bitter and angry when something negative happens. This is an opportunity to teach your players that when something negative happens, you attack it with a positive mindset. This is the definition of class.
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A lot of players complain about not getting noticed. But often, those are the same players that skipped workouts, got D's in class, and chose not to put forth the effort it takes to be successful.
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Take care of your grades as a freshman and sophomore so you don’t have to play catch-up as a junior and senior.
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5 Things That Will Help You Win Most Games 1. Be the most physical team on the field 2. Play Great Defense 3. Win the Turnover Battle 4. Use Special Teams to Win the Field Position Battle 5, Run The Ball and Stop the Run
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No finesse teams win championships. Physical teams that can consistently create explosives in the run game are the teams that win it all.
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Five simple things you can do right now, regardless of intelligence, to increase your grades...
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Some head coaches take a job and have to remodel the kitchen and bathrooms. Some take a job and need to do serious renovations. Others have to knock the whole place down and rebuild it from the foundation up. Knowing which is which is important to having success.
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Disappointed that ESPN is not doing the coaches film room this year for the college football playoffs. The film room was a great way to watch the games with insight from coaches.
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