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Most coaches add when things go wrong.
The best subtract.
Simplify. Focus on fundamentals. Execute at a high level.
That’s where clarity comes from.
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Brian Baker
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Brian Baker
@BakerLBrian
Offensive Coordinator/QBs at Flour Bluff ISD
Corpus Christi, TX Katılım Ağustos 2013
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The best coaches I've been around follow this blueprint:
- Master the fundamentals
- Ignore the shiny new concept
- Find what makes you good
- Rep it relentlessly
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A massive advantage in life: Being a pleasure to deal with. Kind when others aren’t. Calm when things go sideways. Reliable under pressure. Intelligence alone is overrated. Be someone who lightens the load for folks around them. People value people who make their lives easier.
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What one person considers to be good coaching is bad coaching to another and average coaching to a third person.
It’s a good reminder to be yourself as a coach. Authenticity is important.
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A friend of mine used to say: "Confidence isn’t built by thinking positive thoughts. It’s built by doing difficult things while your brain screams at you to stop."
Damn, was he right.
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A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought.
—Naval Ravikant
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A rule that will lower your anxiety: Don’t replay conversations you can’t change, and don’t pre-live ones that haven’t happened. Focus on the next right action. Most stress comes from living everywhere except the present.
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Call me old fashioned, but I think showing up is the key to life. Show up when it’s hard. Show up when no one’s watching. Show up when you don't feel like it. Show up when the rewards are uncertain. Show up. You can never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.
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"If you're doing the same old thing that everybody else is doing, that's who you become — everybody else.”
- Mike Leach
Preston Troyer@CoachFBInsights
Funny thing about the coaches who changed the game. None of them were following it. They all went a different direction when the crowd went one way. If your offense looks like everyone else's, maybe it's time to rethink it.
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Your character is always one decision away.
One courageous act and you're suddenly a courageous person.
One dishonest act and you're suddenly a dishonest person.
Seems like the kind of thing you should pay attention to.
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One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun:
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Nobody cares.
When you’re winning, nobody cares. When you’re losing, nobody cares. It doesn’t mean nobody loves you, it just means nobody cares about your life as much as you do. You are in control. It’s on you. Nobody cares. Go do the thing.
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Thank you to our friends at @ClemsonFB for hosting us these last few days and giving us some great ideas to take back to Hornet Country! We appreciate you! @coachchadmorris @patrickcromer13 @CoachMattLuke @JacobyFord11 @CoachCthomason
#RecruitTheBluff #SWARM #CPH
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I'm increasingly convinced that showing up every single day with a good attitude puts you ahead of 95% of people.
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Culture of the staff is by far the BIGGEST opportunity for improving a football team . . . and it gets almost no attention.
(except on the staffs I work with)
Culture work targets the locker room when the real culture need is in the staff room.
Staff --> Culture --> Players
James Light@JamesALight
New England Patriots HC Mike Vrabel - Coaching the Coaches - Honest Communication/Feedback. - "But you're also not just communicating when there is areas of focus. You're trying to communicate to them when there are some things that have been going well (small victories)."
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The old model of leadership says: "Break them down to build them up."
It relies on fear, control, and constant pressure.
The new science says: High standards, high support.
If they know you genuinely care, they’ll rise to the standard.
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Most coaching advice is outdated.
In 2026, players don’t need louder coaches. They need better ones.
Here are the 3 things that matter most now.
🧵👇
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Point less.
Own more.
“You should always point the finger back at yourself.”
– Tom Brady 🔥
That’s leadership.
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Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. That suck might be 100 hard workouts, 100 bland meals, 100 hours of focused work, or 100 hard conversations. Embrace the cost of entry. The answers you seek are found in the actions you avoid.
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