Aaron McClung

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

@FixingEducation If you only want rich kids to have access to sports. I’ve had multiple foreign exchange students express how much more exciting it is to represent a school and have classmates cheering for you. If you go club model you kill that vibe and only parents of rich kids will support.

Should schools in America run sports programs, or should local communities take them over like in parts of Europe? This wouldn’t eliminate sports, just shift them to club systems and free up school resources for academics. Would this be better for students?

@FunFootballPod Chuck Cecil

Ronnie Lott is NOT available. Who is the hardest hitter in NFL history???

@GovsFB What time does practices start??

Spring Showcase 🔜 See everyone on Saturday at The Fort!

@game7__ @ThrowbackHoopz

Sports fans don't agree on much anymore. But everyone is seemingly in agreement on this: Angel Reese could legitimately beat some NBA players in a game of 1 on 1. She could easily beat at least 3 players on the Atlanta Hawks right now. I don't even have to say the names because we are all literally thinking about the same 3 guys right now. And she's about to become the biggest basketball star on the planet. Here's why. Angel Reese just got traded to the Atlanta Dream for two first-round picks. Everyone is arguing about what went wrong in Chicago. Nobody is talking about the fact that her career rebounding average would compete with the best big men in the NBA. Here's what people are missing. Angel Reese has played two WNBA seasons. In those two seasons, she has averaged 14.1 points and 12.9 rebounds per game. She's been an All-Star both years. She has 46 career double-doubles, the fastest any player has reached 30 in league history. That 12.9 rebounds per game number is wild. The NBA's top rebounders this season, Nikola Jokic and Rudy Gobert, are averaging around 13 per game. Angel Reese's career average, across two full seasons in the WNBA, is right there with them. Former NBA All-Star Jeff Teague said it outright: "She's the Dennis Rodman of the WNBA." And the records back it up. As a rookie in 2024, she set the WNBA single-season record for rebounds per game at 13.1. Her 446 total rebounds were the most any player has ever grabbed in a single WNBA season. Her 172 offensive rebounds were also a single-season record. She broke the WNBA record for consecutive double-doubles with 15 straight, shattering Candace Parker's previous record of 12. Reese did it as a 22-year-old rookie in her first 20 games. She became the first player in WNBA history to grab 20 or more rebounds in three consecutive games. The last rookie in the WNBA or NBA to post back-to-back 20-rebound games was Shaquille O'Neal. In 1993. And she did all of that with a broken wrist that ended her season six games early. In 2025, she averaged 14.7 points, 12.6 rebounds, and 3.7 assists. Led the WNBA in rebounding again. Posted 23 double-doubles. Became the only player in league history with multiple streaks of 10 or more consecutive double-doubles. Recorded the second-youngest triple-double in WNBA history. The full story of how Angel Reese became the most dominant rebounder in women's basketball history, and what Atlanta just got for two first-round picks, is here: itsgame7.com/news/angel-ree… Before the WNBA, she won a national championship at LSU. Scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the title game. Beat Caitlin Clark's Iowa 102-85. Was named Most Outstanding Player. That game drew 9.9 million viewers, the most-watched women's college basketball game in history at the time. In the inaugural Unrivaled season in early 2025, she led the league in rebounding, posted the first 20-20 game in league history with 22 points and 21 rebounds, won the championship, and was named Defensive Player of the Year. She earned $9.4 million last year. Highest-paid Black woman in professional basketball. Beats by Dre. Cash App. Victoria's Secret. Reebok. She brings an audience and revenue wherever she goes. Atlanta gave up two first-round picks for a 23-year-old, two-time All-Star who averages a career double-double, holds more WNBA rebounding records than anyone in history, and is still a month away from her 24th birthday. Everyone is debating whether the Sky got enough. The better question is whether two first-round picks is enough for a player whose rebounding numbers compete with the best players in the NBA.

THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST QUOTES OF ALL-TIME BY #NFL LEGEND BILL BELICHICK: “You experience the Pain of Preparation or the Pain of Failure. It's pain either way. You have to decide if you want pain at the beginning or pain at the end.” 🐐🐐🐐

The weight room is about RESPECT. If you miss workouts, or are late, you disrespect your coaches and teammates, and the importance of training. And you are a distraction to those doing things right.

Underrated coaching truth: The best coaches aren’t obsessed with talent. They’re obsessed with effort. With attitude. With toughness. Because when it gets hard, that’s what still shows up.

𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... NOBODY reminds anyone of the standards 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... COACHES remind team of the standards 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... CAPTAINS remind team of the standards 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... EVERYONE reminds each other of the standards

@Delta_E_Sierra @KYCooperrider @QuentinGenX School boards set them. Elected officials.

@KYCooperrider @QuentinGenX Why did we ever give the schools the power to set tax rates in the first place?

🚨Bill Alert🚨: The Kentucky Legislature is fighting back against school misuse of taxpayer funds with SB 59, which is scheduled for a Senate vote today. It's absurd—and frankly outrageous—that Kentucky school districts can currently use your taxpayer dollars to campaign for higher taxes on you.They tap into: • Publicly funded email lists (built from parents registering their kids) • School staff time and resources on the clock • Official websites, newsletters, social media, printers, copiers, and more All to push for tax increases. It's literally using your own money against you to take even more of it. Worse, they often straight-up obfuscate or mislead in what they send out. They love to blame the PVA (Property Valuation Administrator) for rising property values and higher tax bills—when the PVA just assesses values, and it's the school board that votes on the actual tax rate to seek more revenue every year—while acting like powerless victims of assessments. When folks push back and call out the games, districts get extremely hostile. Shelby County Schools' PR guy once called me personally to threaten a lawsuit if I didn't shut up about their tax hike push. I told them: Screw you—sue me. They backed off, but it shows how far they'll go to silence critics while using public resources to guilt-trip and lie their way to more funding. That's exactly why SB 59 is so needed: it would explicitly ban school districts (and other locals) from using tax dollars or resources—including emails, staff time, digital tools, etc.—to advocate for or against ballot questions like tax increases. Pass SB 59. Stop the misuse of funds.

If you have to tell people you don’t care if you’re liked, you actually do. If you talk about respect but show disrespect you’re fake. The newness wears off and the hypocrisy will catch up to you. People notice and actions speak louder than words and clicks.

@YourSportsEdge1 Coach E, always a class act.

Chris Ezell has stepped down as head football coach at Trigg County after five seasons. yoursportsedge.com/2026/03/02/chr…

Sonny Styles high school basketball highlights… Remember this when he destroys the Combine today:

A sports specialization study at UCLA found that 88% of NCAA Division I athletes played an average of two to three sports growing up. I spoke with a Sioux Falls athlete and trainer who have seen the direct impacts of the multi-sport experience.

@CoachEdge11 @TyAshley27 @Coach_BHaines @BusterWKU71 @SrHighFootball @D_Marc11 @247recruiting @On3 They probably will now.

@TyAshley27 @Coach_BHaines @BusterWKU71 @SrHighFootball @D_Marc11 @247recruiting @On3 Congratulations Crazy a school in our own state won’t offer.

After a awesome conversation with @Coach_BHaines I am blessed to receive an offer from Indiana University! Go Hoosiers! @BusterWKU71 @SrHighFootball @D_Marc11 @247recruiting @On3

@Rachel__Nichols @TheHerd I guess since they own the team they will do what they want. Kind of the definition of ownership.

The not-Chicago Bears? Today the Bears released a statement saying how excited they were for their “vision” of a taxpayer-funded stadium in Hammond, INDIANA. Umm…nope. If you can’t afford to keep the team in Chicago, sell it. Period.

@TheBuckeyeNut Don’t run. Caleb is already one of the best I’ve ever seen. He has nothing left to prove.

Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown shares his advice for Caleb on whether he should run the 40-yard dash ahead of the NFL Combine 👀💨