I’m rolling the clock back to 2015. Post 1814 on Coaching and Life. I’m fairly certain I’ve revisited this very post in recent history, but it hits now more than it has in the past but for the fact that I spent the last day and a half with a college football coaching staff getting to know them and getting to understand what they can do to help my son advance in his football career. He is in the portal and deciding between two teams. We were with one of those programs these last two days and it was a reminder of how important coaching can be, and how much of a step forward a player can take if the effort is given.
Football coaches—coaches in general—rarely get the credit they deserve for the complex work they do. Now I’m not conflating this work with what Neil Degrasse Tyson and his ilk do, but all too often the thinking man’s side of athletics is overlooked. Consider this: as a football coach you have to be a strategist, a poker player, a master motivator, and leader, and what can be best described as a ‘personality wrangler’. This multitude of roles must be achieved expertly and simultaneously in order to be a success. ~1814
These guys have the goods. What I’m seeing is a Tier 1 staff at a program that is not tier 1. The group coached at BYU and turned that program around before the coach stepped away to do other things. He was the associate HC and brought a solid staff with him to his new location. They haven’t won yet but year three is always that breakout year. We are about to see it here.