Chad Ciesil

Bruce Lee rewired my brain with this...

I keep coming back to this speech once in a while..

The 40-yard dash has non-negotiables 👀🏈 Step 4: past 5 yards Step 7: past 10 yards Step 12: past 20 yards That’s how elite times get built. NFL speed guru Les Spellman breaks down why the first 12 steps can make or break your 40. ⚡️🔥

"What's the biggest difference between the athletes who WIN vs the ones that don't?" Answer: They have a WINNING story running in their head, all the time - Too good not to share, sending to all my hitters (repeatedly)

Ed Reed & Ray Lewis talking about the importance of Film Study 🎥 In high school and college, you’re playing checkers. When you’re in the league, you’re playing chess! ♟️

Never DM a coach more than 3-5 lines of text. Almost always, DMs are way too long and, today, are AI copy and pasted. “Coach I’d love to play for you. ‘27 | POS | GPA/SAT/ACT | Ht/Wt | Measurables | HS | Name (tape is in my profile) Thanks so much.” ⬆️ is all you need.

Visit Tip: The 80/20 Rule 80% of the time, your kid should be leading interactions with coaches, not the parent. 20% of the time, parents should feel free to ask a few questions, but don't be overbearing. It's ultimately your kid's show (but coaches want to know if the parents are crazy or not)

Saban: “You can’t really play Defensive Back if your feet are ever outside your shoulders” If you have this problem… Here are 3 DB drills to fix your feet so you can plant in your frame ✅

The weight room is biased. It only rewards those who work. And it will see right through anyone not willing to do it. It’s a truth teller. You can’t fool it. It will let you know exactly where things stand.

“Good players want coached. Great players you can’t coach them enough, they want more, more, more. Inconsistent players want to be coached on their terms”

Your first DM/email should be 10x shorter than you think it needs to be: " '27 | DE | 6'3 | 220lbs | 3.6 unw GPA | 1470 SAT | All State | #1 Sack Leader | and I'd love to play for you. My tape is pinned to my profile would love your take. Thanks so much."

@CoachBradLutz and his staff run a phenomenal camp for a great cause! #TeamChilcoat 🏈

Football coaches are sleeping on AI. Most will just grind and neglect their families instead of learning the biggest technology advancement ever.

How to follow up (without annoying a coach):

“You’re going to tell us how much you love your teammates by the way you block on the perimeter” - Dan Lanning

Recruits: Phone calls, FaceTimes, Zooms, Snap, IG, Twitter, Texts are all part of the evaluation/interviewing process as well… not just your hudl. EVERYTHING MATTERS 🦃

I cannot stress this enough: PLAY MULTIPLE SPORTS IN HIGH SCHOOL New teams, new roles, new bonds built, new opportunities to compete, etc. College coaches love to see multi-sport athletes and prefer them over specialization. This has never changed. This is a hill I die on.

How to get recruited in 3 steps: ◾️Fill out the recruiting questionnaire ◾️DM pos. coach/regional recruiter ◾️Follow up (relentlessly)

Recruiting Tip: The goal of twitter is a quick first contact then to bring that indirect contact “offline” to more direct iMessage texting or phone calls Order of interest: 1. Follow 2. DM'ing 3. Calling 4. Visiting

You don’t perform on 6 hours sleep. One of the most important sleep studies ever ran a brutally simple test. People slept 4h, 6h, or 8h per night for 14 days. No all-nighters. Just “normal” short sleep. Cognitive performance was tested every two hours. By day 14: 6 hours = same impairment as being awake for 24 hours. 4 hours = same as 48 hours awake. But here’s the scary part – after day 3–4, people stopped feeling more tired. Reaction times kept slowing, attention lapses kept increasing, working memory kept degrading. But subjective sleepiness flatlined. Your brain keeps getting worse, your ability to notice it breaks. This is why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable – you adapt to feeling tired but you do not adapt to being cognitively impaired. The participants would’ve told you they felt “okay”. Objectively, they were functioning like they’d pulled an all-nighter. If you’re sleeping 6 hours and think you’re fine, you’ve probably lost calibration. Sleep need is biological. Most adults need 7–9 hours. “I only need 6” usually means “I forgot what normal feels like.” Feeling fine is not evidence you’re functioning well. Chronic sleep loss doesn’t just impair your brain – it blinds you to the impairment. — h/t @aakashgupta