Coach Karoma Smith

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley said it. And every parent needs to hear it. Here's what parents get wrong about raising resilient kids. [THREAD]🧵

1: We love our kids. So we fix their problems. Bad grade? We call the teacher. Conflict with a teammate? We handle it. Struggle on the court? We intervene. Every time we step in, we steal the lesson.

2: Adversity is not the enemy. Avoiding adversity is. Kids who never face hard moments at home don't know how to handle hard moments when it counts. The struggle is where the growth lives. Not the comfort.

Mississippi Cyclones looking for unsigned players for the upcoming season that's ready to coming in work hard and to be apart of basketball family program

Flau’jae Johnson in her preseason debut: • 12 points • 4 rebounds • 5/10 FG • 23 minutes played

Kids have to learn to dig deep, struggle & fight their way out of adversity. You can pay to put them on every kind of competitive team, get them a trainer/equipment/extra practice, but if they can’t claw their way past troubles that WILL come, they’ll never develop as athletes.

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold: Two kids. One rich. One poor. Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids. The rich kid has two choices. Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more. Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater. The poor kid has two choices too. Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been. Or outwork everyone in the room. Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch. Same choice for all of them. Ownership or victimhood. Fuel or excuse. The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it. The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it. Greatness doesn't come from where you start. It comes from which kid you choose to feed. Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

New @Browns QB Taylen Green at the Combine: 4.36s 40 (2nd-best all-time among QBs) 11'2" broad jump (best all-time among QBs) 43.50" vertical jump (best all-time among QBs)

Denzel Washington had a 1.8 GPA when his university asked him to leave. Years later he stood at a podium and told 5,000 Ivy League graduates: "If you don't fail, you're not even trying." March 1975. He'd switched majors three times at Fordham: pre-med, pre-law, journalism. Cardiac morphogenesis was the course that broke him. He couldn't pronounce it. He couldn't pass it. He was 20 years old, sitting in his mother's beauty shop in Mount Vernon, when an elderly woman under a hair dryer pointed at him and said he was going to travel the world and speak to millions of people. He went back to Fordham and switched majors a fourth time. Theater. Two years later he played Othello as a senior. Graduated 1977. American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Film debut 1981. Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989. Best Actor for Training Day in 2001. Tony in 2010. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2025. In 2011, Penn picked him as commencement speaker. The Oscars and the Tony made him eligible. His son Malcolm, a sophomore studying film, made him the actual pick. The university secretary called him their first choice, no debate. The speech itself is about failure. He told the graduates he once had a 1.8 GPA. He failed an audition for a musical because he couldn't sing. He delivered it all in the cadence his father used in the pulpit. Reggie Jackson's 2,600 strikeouts. Edison's 1,000 failed experiments. The "fall forward" refrain ran the entire 22 minutes. A single YouTube upload of the speech has crossed 35 million views. Every motivational compilation runs it. Every business school plays it. The woman in the beauty shop said millions. She was off by two orders of magnitude.

Taylen's got speed and strength all in one

No matter how good you are, in the wrong place, you won’t be valued properly.

We are pleased to announce we've hired Mike Davis to become the 13th Head Men's Basketball coach is Mississippi Valley State history. 412-360 (.534%) Career Record 2002 Final Four 2002 National Runner up 9x NCAA Tournament Appearances (8 Wins) 4x SWAC Champion

A high school basketball team isn't defined by its best player, it's defined by its worst habits. Do you walk back on defense after a miss? Do your teammates get louder when things get harder? Championship teams don't win because of talent alone; they win because their culture demands it.

Only way to end my high school career! @Jumpman23 @Jumpman23 @Jumpman23

The 9th Grade Boys Basketball team will hold tryouts on May 12th. Athletes must be present and have an updated physical. If you have any questions, please get in touch with @marcusadams03 or Coach Carroll.

Keeping his family, teammates, fraternity brothers and friends lifted in prayer. 🙏🏾

Another one of my favorite quotes about discipline… “Discipline yourself so no one else has to.” - Pat Summitt🔥

Failure isn’t the problem. Excuses are. After a loss… Listen to the locker room. You’ll hear: “On me, I’ve got to be better.” or “That ref… that call… that teammate…” Which one do you hear more?👇

Every player wants to be the one clutch shot everyone remembers. But what teams really need? - The one who shows up early, leaves late. - The one calling out screens on defense. - The one diving for a loose ball with 10 seconds left in practice.