Coach Chop Clark

Guard Read LB Drill - Coach Nix emphasizes stacking players three deep during drills to ensure that no one is standing around and everyone remains engaged. - Rotating the lead player in the drill ensures that everyone eventually gets the front-line experience while still maintaining consistency in training. - Players behind the lead position should still be actively getting the same mental reps and visual reads as the player currently in front. - During a power read with tight flow, the linebacker should focus on kicking out and scraping as tight as possible. - When a linebacker encounters a seal block, they are instructed to fill the gap aggressively. - On a pull-away towards the H-back, the linebacker must cut their eyes to the down block and stay over the top of it as long as the ball is there. Brian Nix, Head Coach, Alcoa HS (TN) #FootballDrills #GlazierClinics

Welcome Coach Anthony Jones as our new Running Backs Coach & Director of College Recruiting and Communication! Coach Jones brings over 6 years of D1 coaching and recruiting coordinator experience at San Diego State, San Jose State, and Lindenwood University. @CoachAntJones36

Weight Room Work 💪 #BuiltForBattle • #WaltonFootball

Welcome my brother @CoachAntJones36 to our family! Over 6 years of division 1 coaching and recruiting coordinator experience at San Diego State, San Jose State, and Lindenwood University. Coach Jones will be our Running Backs Coach and Director of College Recruiting and communication. #teammateforlife #brotherhood #compete #B2B

UCF LB Tackling Drill!!!🚨🚨🚨 - Great stance/base - Stay low - Sprint, gather, attack - Drive your hips through contact - Keep your legs driving through contact - Agility bag helps you get in a good base - Can’t get low when your feet are too close together - Keep driving through until you finish on top @UCF_Football

Michigan State Pursuit Drill Exactly what it should look like!

Soooo true!!

10 Things Great Teams Do: 1. Stick together 2. Take ownership 3. Show resilience 4. Build relationships 5. Respect each other 6. Focus on the process 7. Commit to each other 8. Learn from losing mindset 9. Have a WE > ME mentality 10. Hold each other accountable Be Great.

“We’re not going to recruit selfish guys, I guys, or guys who don’t want to pay the price.” - Curt Cignetti 🔥 That line should be printed on every locker room wall in America. Talent matters. But mindset, toughness, and team-first habits matter more.

You will strike out. You will make errors. You will pitch bad. That’s baseball. The separator isn’t talent - it’s response. The way you handle failure… The way you reset… The way you compete on the next pitch… 👉 That’s the game. ⚾️

I texted a coach this morning and asked how the new job was going after about a month. His response was one I’ve heard many times… and lived myself: “Not bad. Some kids pushing back culture wise. Always worried about staff and numbers.” If you go into a program and start making the changes that need to be made, be ready for pushback. That’s normal. My advice to him: Water the good grass. Don’t let the weeds hold you hostage. Too many coaches start looking the other way because they want to keep players and coaches happy. They convince themselves they can slowly change the culture. It doesn’t work that way. Culture doesn’t drift in the right direction. It moves toward the standard you enforce. Stay strong to your principles. The right grass will grow. 🌱🏈 @fastnwide

Character is Culture!!! You may have to rid your team of bad character to have the right culture!! 🎯💯🏀

𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... NOBODY reminds anyone of the standards 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... COACHES remind team of the standards 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... CAPTAINS remind team of the standards 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... EVERYONE reminds each other of the standards

My JUCO coach used to say: “Leave the dugout better than you found it.” That lesson wasn’t just about a dugout. It was about the game. Respect it. Take care of it. Leave it better for the next group.

Coaches & Leadership family/network: As a follower of Christ, your ultimate audience is of One. You know things, process things, and pray through things that not everyone will know or even understand. “Disliked” is hard, but will come with the territory. When you are confident in who you are, and more importantly who your identity is in Christ…..then opinions mean less (or even care). "Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't ask for advice"- Coach Dabo Swinney *Go dominate a new week and make an impact. #LeadershipMatters

"There are two kinds of pain in life: 1. The Pain of Commitment 2. The Pain of Regret Which kind of pain do you want to undergo?" - Curt Cignetti

The Parent Poison… Most parents want the best for their kids. But sometimes, without realizing it, they slowly poison the very team their child is part of. It rarely starts with something dramatic. It starts small. A comment in the car ride home. “Why didn’t the coach play you more?” A comparison. “You’re better than that kid.” A quiet complaint at the dinner table. “That coach doesn’t know what he’s doing.” Kids hear everything. And when they hear it, something changes. Doubt creeps in. Blame grows. Trust fades. The mindset shifts from team first to me first. What begins in the living room eventually shows up in the locker room. You see it in body language. You hear it in conversations. You feel it in the culture. Instead of unity, there are whispers. Instead of accountability, there are excuses. Instead of growth, there is resentment. Great teams cannot survive that environment. Because the best teams are built on three things: Trust. Sacrifice. Shared purpose. When players start believing the problem is everyone else, those things disappear. Parents play a powerful role in a team’s culture whether they realize it or not. The healthiest teams have parents who: Support the program. Encourage resilience. Teach their kids to handle adversity. They remind their children: Work harder. Be a great teammate. Control what you can control. They don’t feed excuses. They build character. And here’s the truth most people miss: A parent’s influence extends far beyond their own child. It affects the locker room. It affects the culture. It affects the entire team. Great teams require unity, not whispers of criticism. So the challenge for parents is simple. Be the adult in the room. Guard your words. Model respect. Support the team. Because what starts at home always finds its way onto the court, the field, or the locker room. And the best parents don’t poison the culture. They protect it.

Great opportunity for some of our players to see what it takes to make it to the next level. Thank you @UWFFootball @ssaulnier1

Early in my coaching career I had a talented player who was chronically five minutes late to everything. Not egregiously late. Just five minutes, every single time. I let it slide because he was good and I didn’t want the conflict. Within a month, half the team was showing up five minutes late. Nobody said a word. The standard just drifted. That’s when it hit me. You’re either actively maintaining your standards or you’re passively lowering them. There’s no neutral position. I’ve also learned that expectations and standards aren’t the same thing, and that distinction matters more than most people realize. Expectations are the vision. The why. In my programs they’ve always been simple. Have fun. Create great experiences and relationships. Learn and grow. That’s the emotional foundation everything else gets built on. Standards are the daily behaviors that actually get you there. Be on time. Be trustworthy. Have a growth mindset and work hard. Take responsibility for your actions. Encourage the people around you. Don’t make excuses. When those are clear and consistent something interesting happens. The standard becomes the authority, not the coach. I don’t have to lecture anyone. I just point to what we all agreed on. The conversation stays about the behavior, not the person. That’s where real accountability lives without anyone feeling attacked. What I’ve seen over 25 years is that the teams, families, and programs that define these things clearly and hold them consistently almost always outperform the ones with similar talent that don’t. It’s not magic. It’s just clarity. People do better when they know exactly where the lines are. Kids especially. They don’t struggle in high standard environments. They struggle in ambiguous ones. Whatever you walk past becomes your new standard. The good news is it works in both directions. Raise the bar and hold it, and the people around you will rise to meet it. Every time.

Well said… Clutch.. doing what you typically do in a pressure situation!