Your Complete Guide To Football’s Tenth Coach

Buenos Dias. I’m back. And I’m ready to talk coaching. As soon as the final whistle sounded in the college football national title game, coaches collective thoughts immediately turned to the coming 2017 season and specifically their own responsibilities in helping their team progress towards their first game. You could see the gears in the […]

Rethinking Our Win Or Bust Culture

The late, great Hall of Fame boxing writer Jimmy Cannon once wrote, “The literature of the sports page is devoted to sizing up a man’s capacity to endure pain and humiliation. We are cruel in our appraisals and we do it with the belligerence of people who are protected from physical danger by the nature […]

Why Every Leader Should Read More And Share What They Know

“Hello I’m the guy who sits next to you And reads the newspaper over your shoulder Wait Don’t turn the page. I’m not finished.” – Lyle Lovett, “Here I Am” Hopefully these words didn’t completely creep you out and you have chosen to continue to read on. These lyrics above from a Lyle Lovett song […]

Identifying Internal Opponents To Your Athletic Department’s Success

Winning is hard. Whether it is an individual or team sport, you and your team are going up against skilled opponents with similarly motivated scholarship athletes and experienced coaches. They have trained just as rigorously as your team. For your squad to have the best chance of winning, your players have to be healthy, eligible […]

What Would You Do If A Player Got In Trouble On A Saturday Night?

I was asked by an FBS head coach in an interview for a Director of Football Operations position, “What would you do if a player got in trouble on a Saturday night?” This was a fair question as the situation is unfortunately too common across all levels of athletics. I was well-prepared to answer. After […]

The Lessons You Learn When You’re Fired

I take my writing cues from the days when as a kid, I would read comic strips, specifically “Peanuts” and the character, Snoopy.  Snoopy was Charlie Brown’s dog and would pretend he was a great writer, capable of deep thought. Yet the best he could come up with to start each story was “It was […]