Jake Floyd

Sports make a great game - but a terrible God. Listen carefully if you’re an athlete… One day the season will end. One day the career will end. One day the applause will stop. If your identity is in the game, you’ll feel lost when the game is gone. But if your identity is in God, the game simply becomes a platform. Sports are meant to be played. They were never meant to be worshipped. Train hard. Compete with excellence. Honor God with your effort. But never forget: Your purpose is bigger than your performance. “You shall have no other gods before me.” {Exodus 20:3}

The Parent Poison… Most parents want the best for their kids. But sometimes, without realizing it, they slowly poison the very team their child is part of. It rarely starts with something dramatic. It starts small. A comment in the car ride home. “Why didn’t the coach play you more?” A comparison. “You’re better than that kid.” A quiet complaint at the dinner table. “That coach doesn’t know what he’s doing.” Kids hear everything. And when they hear it, something changes. Doubt creeps in. Blame grows. Trust fades. The mindset shifts from team first to me first. What begins in the living room eventually shows up in the locker room. You see it in body language. You hear it in conversations. You feel it in the culture. Instead of unity, there are whispers. Instead of accountability, there are excuses. Instead of growth, there is resentment. Great teams cannot survive that environment. Because the best teams are built on three things: Trust. Sacrifice. Shared purpose. When players start believing the problem is everyone else, those things disappear. Parents play a powerful role in a team’s culture whether they realize it or not. The healthiest teams have parents who: Support the program. Encourage resilience. Teach their kids to handle adversity. They remind their children: Work harder. Be a great teammate. Control what you can control. They don’t feed excuses. They build character. And here’s the truth most people miss: A parent’s influence extends far beyond their own child. It affects the locker room. It affects the culture. It affects the entire team. Great teams require unity, not whispers of criticism. So the challenge for parents is simple. Be the adult in the room. Guard your words. Model respect. Support the team. Because what starts at home always finds its way onto the court, the field, or the locker room. And the best parents don’t poison the culture. They protect it.

Coach Scheyer: “One of our standards was do your best. And doing your best wasn’t about playing your best, making the most shots, it’s about giving your best effort, it’s about giving your best attitude, and having your best focus. We don’t play for a score, we play to do our best….It has to come from the players. As a coach you can say whatever you want but at the end of the day your players are the ones that has to own it.” (via @DukeATHLETICS)

@CoachLync Duke

🔵 The Duke Way Vol. 1 — Teaching Motion (43 pages) Vol. 2 — Zone Sets (10 pages) Vol. 3 — Defensive Drills (3 pages) Vol. 4 — Half-Court Actions (93 pages) Comment DUKE ⬇️ I’ll send all four.

Why Coaching Is Harder Than People Think (A Holiday Reminder)… Because coaching isn’t just about plays, drills, or game nights. It’s about people. It’s about walking into practice every day and managing emotions you didn’t create but are responsible for. Your own. Your players. Your assistants. Parents. Administrators. Fans. It’s about teaching kids who are all at different stages. Different maturity levels. Different confidence levels. Different home situations. And somehow holding them to the same standards while still meeting them where they are. It’s about decisions that look simple from the stands but feel heavy from the sideline. Who plays. When. Why. How you communicate it. And how that decision might land on a 16-year-old who ties their identity to minutes. It’s about losing sleep over kids who won’t buy in. Over conversations you need to have. Over mistakes you replay in your head long after everyone else moved on. It’s about being judged by people who see the outcome, not the process. The scoreboard, not the hours. The result, not the relationships. And yet, you show up again. You plan. You teach. You model. You care. As the season slows and the holidays arrive, this is the reminder: What you do matters. Even when it goes unseen. Even when it feels heavy. Even when it’s hard. Coaching is about influence. And influence lasts longer than any season. That’s why coaching is harder than people think. And also why it matters so much. As the year winds down, I hope you find a little rest, a little perspective, and a lot of pride in the work you’re doing. 🎄Happy Holidays, Coach.

Beyond proud of this girl! She’s been working consistently since I met her to excel on this stage and the work has never wavered! Still getting better everyday and the sky is the limit! 📈 🚀 @p_buckets2027

Wrapped up non-district with a road dub! Time for the fun part! #together #championshipmindset #expecttowin #WTM

Playing at a different level this season!

Got better this weekend! @dallasmavs #fallclassic #together #wtm #girlshoops

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Team & Players of the Week 🔥⚽️ Outstanding performances this past weekend — love seeing the consistency, competitiveness, and team-first mentality on full display! 💪 🌟 Players of the Week: Jocelyn McKinney (08 ECNL) Sophia Gonzalez (10 ECNL-RL) #FCDProud #DTID

Tune in and check us out tomorrow morning! youtube.com/live/69zyHkOcV…

Morning #1 of what’s going to be a special season for GGB!!! Thanks to all the parents who made showing up early this morning a little more fun!

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Excited for Year 3! School record 31 wins last year while beating 4 teams that played for State Championships and almost everyone is back🔥! Gonna be a great year for @DentonGuyerGBB 💙🖤! #UnfinishedBusiness

Proud coach!!!

My girl!

UP NEXT ➡️ Round of 16!Way to go, ladies! 7-0 DUB! @FCDGirlsECNL @a4futbol ⚽️ @LilyStone_4 x4 ⚽️@LenaJunior4 ⚽️@JMckinney08 ⚽️@halleyjae33

First @Tabchoops with my @DentonGuyerGBB team💙🖤! Excited for this season! @ITLTexas