Former Head Football Coach @ Pacheco High School, Los Banos, Ca. Currently RB coach at Los Banos H.S. success comes when you’re willing to do what others won’t
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Being on time, and being prepared, are both signs of respect. Give them. Expect them.
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The fastest way to lose a locker room is by asking 40 kids to live by one standard while allowing your most talented player to live by another.
Forget about losses, outcomes, and what’s out of your control. Holding the standard is something, as coaches, we can control.
Players notice everything, especially what coaches are willing to overlook.
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Coaching gets a lot harder when the right decision for the team is the wrong decision for your own popularity.
Eventually every coach has to decide which one matters more.
And there’s no guarantee anyone will thank you for it.
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Do your job. Nobody forced you to take it. Head coach, do your job. Assistant, do your job. Athletes, do your job. If someone isn’t doing their job, either show them how or find someone who will. It’s not rude to expect people to do their job. It’s a sign of weakness to never ask them to.
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These high school Barstool accounts are out of control.
Most are run by students that do not have the guts to put the pads on and actually make a difference in the game.
To those of you that hide behind that keyboard calling out opposing players or communities, you're just a coward.
Some of you talked A LOT this past week, GOT YOUR ASSES KICKED and then deleted your account.
Dont worry. Those teams you talked trash too kept those receipts.
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Interesting stat to share, although I’m still compiling it. Only done boys sports as of now, but from 2018-2024, over 67% of players in the region who have went on to play one of the major 3 sports in college (🏈🏀⚾️), have quit in 2 years or less.
Moral : Let your kids enjoy HS!
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As an Athletic Director, I believe we live in an era where too many high school athletes are chasing the scholarship instead of embracing the grind, development, and process that will make them better.
We also live in an era of the transfer portal, where opportunities for high school athletes are becoming more limited.
My advice to every athlete who wants to play at the next level is simple:
Focus on what you can control.
Control your effort.
Control your attitude.
Control your development.
Control how you respond to adversity.
Control how you show up for your team every day.
Don’t let the pursuit of a scholarship take away from the experience of becoming the best version of yourself.
If you commit to the process, embrace the grind, and become the best player and person you can be, you will have no regrets.
The scholarship should be a byproduct of your development, not the sole purpose of your journey.
Trust the process. Earn your opportunities. Become the best version of yourself.
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I have so much respect for high school football coaches. It’s a sport that requires significant amount of time meeting and watching film. When you work a 9-5 all of that comes at the sacrifice of time with family and friends.
Then they go out and have 1 shot a week to get it right. The whole town is there. They all have something to say when it’s not going well.
The glory is great, but the stress and work has to be hard.
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Worst verbiage at a practice, “Run it again!”
Every Performance Coach mentally, “Nooooooo!!!! Just watch the film.”
What actually happens, “Yes sir/ma’am…..”
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We live in an era where guys are okay with losing as long as the camera man got that flick for them. I had teammates that hated to lose more than they liked to win. Guys focused on In-N-Out and what the next caption is going to be more than being focused on their job.
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There are some high school football coaches perfectly happy following the rules, playing with whomever shows up, competing well every year in their non-D1 division and focused on producing good people, good citizens and good adults. If a principal has one, don't let them get away.
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POWERFUL: Former #Seahawks FB Heath Evans shared the leadership lesson Mike Holmgren taught him after star RB Shaun Alexander skipped a voluntary offseason practice.
Holmgren went to Evans — Alexander’s close friend and backup fullback — and asked why he didn’t make sure Alexander showed up.
Evans was confused. Alexander was the superstar. He was just the backup.
But the message stuck with him:
“Great leaders don’t treat everyone the same… but great leaders hold everybody to the same standard.”
A lesson Evans says changed the way he looked at leadership forever.
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