Adrian Adams

"Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established." – Proverbs 16:3 Looking back on 2025, I see a year that began with challenges and ended full of gratitude. Placing my faith fully in the Lord led me forward. His grace carried me through the hard times—they didn’t change me; they made me better and turned pressure into purpose. The trials and tribulations are not the focus today, but they are the reason these memories matter so much. I am grateful for both the difficult and joyful moments, and even more thankful for my family, my friends, and the opportunities and blessings that surrounded me along the way. I am heading into 2026 faith centered, family focused, and purpose driven, praising God for it all in advance. Happy New Year! May God bless you all.

Transactional vs. Transformational Coaching… Dan Hurley shared a story about asking Geno Auriemma for advice after a rough start last season. Geno didn’t mince words: “Listen, if the only gratification and the only part of coaching that excites you is winning the national championship, then you’ve lost your way, buddy! Where’s the joy in the things that you’ve always been about as a coach before you went on the championship run, like relationships with your players, like helping people get better, like making your team the best it can be. Be a coach, man. This is when you really need to be a leader. This team isn’t as good as last year’s, so what the hell are you going to do about it? Are you going home? Are you going to let this thing unravel?” That’s the tension every coach feels: Transactional vs. Transformational. Transactional coaching is outcome-obsessed. It’s about the wins, the losses, the trophies. The problem? When results don’t come, your purpose crumbles with them. Transformational coaching is different. It’s about people. It’s about growth. It’s about building something that lasts, whether the scoreboard agrees with you or not. And this is why mentorship matters so much in coaching. Left on our own, it’s easy to drift into a transactional mode without even realizing it. A trusted mentor can pull us back to center and remind us why we started coaching in the first place. To build relationships. To develop players as people. To make teams the best they can be. Wins matter. But they’re not the why. The why is impact. The why is growth. The why is leaving your players better than you found them. The process is the prize. Stay grounded. Stay on the path. Always remember your why.

Coaches don’t just want talent. They want the grinders. The ones who put we > me. The ones who show up early. The ones who lift others with their energy. Competitive spirit + humility > highlight reels.

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Vince Young's 30 of 40, 267 passing yards, 200 rushing yards, 3 rushing touchdowns, 2 two-point conversions against USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl.

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Visualize. Prepare. Execute. Learn. Evolve.

Tell the HS players I coach to watch as much baseball as possible. To learn the game, you have to be a student of the game.

Most teams say they have a system… But if these 4 things aren’t built in— it’s going to break under pressure.

The game grows when we share it 💯 Grateful to host @pvamufb_ and Head Coach Tremaine Jackson! Sharing ideas, learning together, and pushing the game forward 🤝

Acknowledging this is the greatest moment of his career after @PVAMUPanthers won their first NCAA Tournament game ever, Coach Byron Smith says “I was counted out. The buzzards were circling. They had my grave dug because this was supposed to be the last year of my contract. So this is huge to be honest.” On playing Florida next: “This is more of a David versus Goliath situation…They’re gonna be a tough out for anybody…Anything is possible.”

"...so definitely gratifying. A heck of a basketball game," said @PVAMUPanthers @PVAMU_MBB head coach Byron Smith following program's first-ever NCAA Tournament win @KHOU

Texas CB Coach Mark Orphey - Coaching Philosophy - Demand Small (Intentional Training) = Perform Big (Trust Your Training) - Demanding the small details (Notes) Teaching Progression - Read It (In writing... Rules) - See It (Drawing/Diagram) - Watch It (Best example on film) - Do It (Pre Practice/Walk Through) - Perform It (Live rep) - Stack It (Watch film as a progression)

Look what it means to Prairie View A&M to win their first NCAA Tournament game in program history ❤️

Prairie View A&M @PVAMUPanthers head coach Byron Smith said "getting into the conference tournament, we just started playing really, really good basketball."

Nick Saban shares what transformational leadership really looks like and the trap most leaders fall into. "If you're in any kind of managerial position, I think you should define your job the same way: Provide the leadership to develop the relationships to help people create and accomplish the opportunities that they have, and help them establish the discipline they need to do it." Then he broke down what leadership actually is: "Leadership is about helping somebody else, affecting somebody else for their benefit. Not for your benefit - for their benefit." "If you're doing it for your benefit, it's manipulation. And people can see right through that." That's the line right there... Leadership serves others. Manipulation serves yourself. "You gotta develop a relationship, because they gotta know you care. Hard to affect people if they don't think you care about them." Then he called out where most leaders spend their time: "How do you spend all your time? If you're a manager, you spend all your time with the people who don't do the right things. I call them energy vampires." "We got 5 guys on our team - they don't go to class, they don't do the right thing in practice, they loaf all the time. Those are the guys I meet with every day. They're energy vampires." So he made a commitment: "I'm gonna meet with 3 guys who didn't do anything wrong every day to see how they're doing. To make sure they know I care about them, their family, and what's happening in their life." "I wanna have a relationship with those people, so that when I need to affect them, I have a chance to do it." "People gotta know you care. If they think you only care about yourself, they're gonna think you're just a manipulator and you're not really going to affect them in a positive way." "You gotta serve other people." The core of servant leadership is wanting to see others at their best. It's not about control, it's about serving others. (🎥 CBT Automotive)

Prairie View A&M celebrating in the locker room and punching their ticket to advance to play defending national champion Florida after their first win in the NCAA Tournament in @PVAMUPanthers history.

Keep Dancing PV #MarchMadness

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