The first one originally appeared here in August of 2015. Since football season is underway, I figured now would be a good time to revisit one of the characteristics that is shared by many of the most successful football coaches... You can read the full story here. The second article was published [...]
I was as shocked as everyone else this past weekend when I heard the news that Andrew Luck was retiring from football. Retirement for a professional athlete is difficult even when a player has fulfilled all of their goals. I can only imagine how arduous this decision must have been [...]
NFL teams start reporting to training camp this week and college teams follow soon after. As a result, I figured now would be an ideal time to attempt to answer the question above. Obviously, there is no single factor that determines which side of this equation a team ends up [...]
An assistant football coach who was mired in a difficult situation last fall, read my article entitled: The Choices You Make, Make You which was about the necessity of not falling into the trap of making excuses and learning to take responsibility for all your actions, so you can perform [...]
The NFL’s annual draft of collegiate players begins later today. A few years from now people will look back and find that many highly drafted players were not nearly as good as they were expected to be. It’s likely that some will even attain the dreaded label of ‘busts.’ Conversely, [...]
I recently found myself in a conversation on this topic with a few prominent college and professional football coaches. To be clear before continuing on, I used S.O.B. in my title to keep it as clean as possible, but the words Bastard and A-hole were used interchangeably in our conversation. [...]
A few days ago the University of Oregon played The Ohio State University in the championship game of the first four-team college football playoff. Had we continued to use the previous system, called the BCS, to determine the two teams who would have played for the championship, neither one of [...]
If you asked me a month ago if I would ever write about a Korean rapper on my blog, I would have been highly confident in answering no. I would have been even more cocksure that I would never write about one in comparison to a high level college football [...]
Less than one month ago Tyrann Mathieu, a 2011 Heisman Trophy finalist, who is also known as the Honey Badger, was dismissed from the LSU football team for failed drug tests. He’s not the first high level college athlete to get kicked off his team for a violation of team [...]
Four Pac-12 schools will begin this season with new head coaches running their respective programs: Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA and Washington State. When a new coach arrives, he normally not only brings an entirely new staff with him, but also a brand new culture as well. Though every coach is [...]