Chris Thacker

Rick Pitino on improving as a coach “When you stop learning, you have to stop coaching”

LOVE this quote “I get along great with every player that works hard” - Rick Pitino (Via @CalebCorrill 🎥)

Today on @InsideTheHeadst we sat down with @IndianaFootball DC @Coach_BHaines to talk his career & winning the national championship. 🎧 Presented by @CoachComm 📺tinyurl.com/ITH-YT-BH 🍎tinyurl.com/ITH-App-BH 🎙️tinyurl.com/ITH-Spt-BH

Love this. Has to be the aim of any leader.

I am not ashamed of my journey. My life will be a testimony. But if I could offer a word of advice to any freshman, sophomore or junior athlete in high school it would be to just listen bro. All them adults in your life not just talking to talk. They been here longer. They done bumped they head already. They trying to save you from doing the same thing. Do not make the mistake of thinking your talent alone is enough. It’s not. Talent open doors. Character and grades keep you there. And if you already messed up, if your GPA not where it should be, if your name been in rooms for the wrong reasons… don’t quit. Keep digging. You can climb out the hole the same way you dug it. Class of 29, 28 and 27 hear me. Take your grades serious.
Choose who you hang around wisely.
Protect your name. Word spreads fast if you a crash out.
Respect authority. Nobody riding for you like your parents and coaches.
Work hard when nobody clapping. Do not wait until senior year to lock in. That GPA do not lie. I’m still figuring it out myself. I’m struggling but I know God got me. Be intentional.
Lock in early. Pray. Show up ready to work. I’m learning the hard way that my future is being built in the small decisions I make today. Start now.

Every person in this program is important. @CoachBobChesney #4sup

You will lose respect if you don't confront people:

“Have no fear of failure” - Rick Pitino

This should be hanging in every locker room in the country.

LA Rams HC Sean McVay - Be An Elevator "We want to try and be elevators, we want to try and help people be able to reach their highest potential." "What that means is that you elevate every person/situation that you're a part of. That's what great leaders do." "I know when I reflect back on the good times, it's been because there is a purpose about serving others." "When I have looked back and said man I should have been better, it's usually when it's become a little bit more about me than I ever wanted it to. Your own selfish ambitions."

1000% Committed‼️#AGTG

49ers TE coach Brian Fleury explains the important of uniformity and standardizing the wording in an organization. San Francisco has dealt with a lot of injuries this season so that made it very important for everyone to be on the same page.

Cal Head Coach Tosh Lupoi has evaluated thousands of high school players film. He told me the number 1 thing he looks for when he turns on the tape ⬇️

Amen!! Couldn’t say it any better!

“You get out what put in. Even if I didn’t have the season I’m having right now, I would still be putting in the work. I’m not really expecting any outcome. I do it just to build confidence,” Brandon Finney Jr. Winners love the habits they build within the process.

We can agree to disagree but I think he is diagnosing coverage quite a bit even on his pure progression reads. If having an ideal pre-snap of what coverage your getting wasn’t important on pure progression reads “where coverage doesn’t matter” then OC’s wouldn’t try to give their QB’s as much information as possible through motion. Obviously, there will be times where the QB does not know what coverage he is getting because the disguise is so good but that’s where pure progressions can be a QB’s friend because of the natural order of reading out the play. That’s the chess match within the game and one that I don’t think most OC’s want to live in every single time their QB drops back to pass. Good discussion.

@kurt13warner @RazorbackLos That was my only point. I definitely agree with Kurt that he’s seeing defenders move and aware of what he’s getting on that, but there ARE guys doing exactly what Cosell is saying, Purdy’s assigned reads and timing just aren’t technically structured for it

What do u mean?

Yeah, I agree. And I think the point that Kurt and Cosell are trying to make is that he is elite at how fast he processes that 1-5. I don’t think we can take the McVay/Shanahan playbook and tell a QB alright we are going to go 1-2-3-4-5 every time we call this play. If we do, the QB will get killed. We do not see the level of coaching and detail combined with film prep that takes place behind the scenes on a weekly basis. There will premier looks that get us to the alert quickly, there will be premier looks that will allow us to go 1-2 and then there will be non-premier looks that cause us to skip ahead to 3-4-5. The ability to teach this to a QB and for a QB to process this in live situations is why some OC’s and QB’s are elite year to year and why some don’t make it. We can all read the Shanahan playbook and go oh it’s just 1-2-3-4-5. Simple. To me it’s like a recipe. Yeah, those are the ingredients but we all know the end result will always vary based on the skill of the chef. Just my two cents.

Yeah that’s the idea. It’s the same distribution though, that one just takes forever to get through. There are so many concepts like this that are made pointlessly longer to form a progression. If you can’t dictate looks and get things open early the QB is often back there waiting to get shelled

Good exercise/contrast. Here we have the same general concept, but two entirely different ways of reading it. One is a 1-4 fixed progression (Shanahan), the other reads a defender and from there, has two different structures depending on what he does (Reid) 🧵

@maxtoscano1 These are not the same concepts. The return portion by the 49ers takes longer to develop and sets up better as a backside progression that naturally works back into the QB’s vision. The concept by the Chiefs, while similar, plays out quicker and must be processed differently.

If this were the 49ers, the QB would have to go 1: Choice (aka “lookie”) 2: Dig 3: Stick return (pirate in the Chiefs play) 4: 2nd stick return No matter what. So that’s 3 steps, hitch to the dig, hitch again to the stick return, hitch again to the 2nd stick return (and with no option to conflict the CB and throw the corner if it’s Cover-2) For the Chiefs, it’s 3 steps and hitch or 3 steps and hitch twice. There’s no hitch packaged into the steps with SF unlike KC and they are STILL hitching more AND taking a coverage answer off the board. Less efficient and one fewer serious option.

I don’t care which team you root for — this message is great. Terry Smith is a person who should be leading young people in this country. This is outstanding. In terms of identifying a goal and striving together to achieve it, Smith does that masterfully.