Chris Adkisson ‘Coach Ad’

“Hang it in the Louvre” Ask people we’ve played the last few years, to name the hardest thing about preparing to play us… The Defensive Line WILL be in the top 2-3 answers. It’s the expectation. We set it, they exceed it. Proud to coach this group for the 5th season! GoBruins.

The only people that will have problems with this, never played competitive sports

🚨 NCAA ASSIST RECORD BROKEN 🚨 Braden Smith records his 1,077th career assist to Trey Kaufman-Renn vs Queen in the Round of 64 of the NCAA Tournament, passing Bobby Hurley for the most assists in NCAA history. The new all-time assist record belongs to the overlooked kid out of Westfield, Indiana. The greatest assist-man in college basketball history belongs to the black and gold.

Very sad to watch some kids playing their hearts out to win & others only playing for themselves. Team sports are TEAM sports for a reason. If you’re not there to give everything to your team, you’re there for the wrong reasons. Individuals can be great within a team environment!

Full Kentucky sequence. Just stadium sound. Chills ‼️ @MarchMadnessMBB

Hello All-American!! Freshman Brock DeBello earns First Team All-America honors with a sixth-place finish (47.87) in the finals of the 400-meter dash at the 2026 NCAA DIII Indoor Track and Field Championships. Some Little Giant!! #WAF @MOWNBU

It's St Patrick's Day or Paddy's Day, never ever ever St Patty's Day! Just don't!

This dude had a very good NBA career, 1x All-Star and 6x All-Defensive, but his grunge rock legacy is much greater. IYKYK.

Bruin Alum Brock DeBello finished 6th in the country in the D3 Indoor Track and Field Nationals in the open 400. Top 8 make the podium and are named First Team All American. #BeLegendary

Culture rarely explodes. It erodes. One skipped rep. One eye roll. One excuse. Drip by drip. Great coaches protect the standard before the damage spreads.

A cool picture of Lance Briggs and Brian Urlacher. The two are regarded as one of the greatest linebacker tandems in NFL history.

Players Drafted Since 2015 || SunBelt || #CollegeBaseball 1. @CoastalBaseball - 38 2. @SouthernMissBSB - 32 3. @RaginCajunsBSB - 25 4. @ODUBaseball - 21 5. @TxStateBaseball - 21 6. @SouthAlabamaBSB - 20 7. @GSAthletics_BSB - 17 8. @JMUBaseball - 13 9. @AppBaseball - 12 9. @TroyTrojansBSB - 12 11. @HerdBaseball - 11 12. @GSU_Base - 9 13. @AStateBaseball - 8 13. @ULM_BSB - 8

Thankful for the invite! @youareathlete @IndianaPreps @PrepRedzoneIN @IndyWeOutHere @Coach_Justy @TriWestFootball @triwestsports @Bryan_Ault @KyleNeddenriep @FFBallAllDay @sixstarfootball @TopPreps

Your legacy as a high school coach won’t be measured by wins and losses. It’ll be measured by the player who comes back years later to say: “Coach, you changed my life.”

THREAD: When I coached football at DeKalb, my stipend check arrived every two weeks. For $99. Not per day. Not per practice. Per pay period. One season as a freshman basketball coach brought a grand total of $1,000. For an entire season. Today, as a varsity basketball official, I’ll typically earn $83 for a contest — before taxes, before travel, before the quiet math that reminds you this was never designed to be lucrative. Those numbers aren’t shared as complaints. They’re shared because context matters. Because perspective matters. And because conversations about high school athletics have developed a curious tendency to drift far from the lived realities inside schools. Especially the loud conversations. Especially the viral ones. Especially the ones built for engagement rather than understanding. Because perspective, inconveniently, tends to belong to those who have actually lived inside this world. Because if you’ve never lived inside this space — not observed it, not commented from afar, not tweeted about it — but truly lived it — the conclusions can come easily. If you’ve never been evaluated as a coach by an administrator. Never navigated roster decisions that directly affect teenagers and families. Never balanced classroom responsibilities with practices, film sessions, eligibility compliance, offseason regulations, and the quiet emotional labor coaching demands. Never sacrificed evenings, weekends, holidays, and family time for compensation that looks dramatically different when divided by hours invested. Then yes… The realities are easy to misread. And the narrative circulating online can sound persuasive. “More lazy high school coaches than ever.” It’s a striking claim. It’s also the kind of simplicity that travels exceptionally well online — clean, confident, and ultimately very… dare I say… lazy. 🤨 Because real life inside schools is rarely that tidy. Most high school coaches are teachers or school staff working full days before stepping into a gym or onto a field. They manage lesson plans, grading, meetings, interventions, and student needs long before practice begins. Then comes preparation, planning, communication, compliance, logistics, mentorship, hours of film session on a Sunday morning and countless unseen moments that never make it into social media commentary. All for stipends that, when measured honestly against hours invested, would surprise many of the loudest critics. Most coaches are not getting rich. They’re getting tired. 1/

I love coaching, I love all the guys I have coached, Those I have coached w/, The community around us, all the support staff, a top-tier athletic dept, & EVERY student who has supported us in my time at tri west. I’m so excited for year 6. The students should be too! GoBruins.

You can't learn anything from a coach if you think you already know it all. Be humble, curious, and coachable so you always keep improving.

Czechia's Ondřej Satoria, who is a full-time electrician, received a standing ovation after throwing 4.2 shutout innings against Japan in WBC 👏

Go watch the full 15 min vid on YouTube. JP does an awesome job with this

You cannot skip the struggle. Pressure will come. Adversity is guaranteed. The process is the prize. Don’t run from the struggle. Lean into it. That’s how great players and great teams are made.