Believe that everything you deserve will
Eventually come your way.
You won’t have to grab for it.
You won’t have to force it.
It will simply catch up to you,
... Drawn along in the jet stream,
The forward motion of your hard work.
Pat Riley

There is no substitute for hard work. Hard work makes dreams come true. Everyone dreams of striking it rich in the lottery, winning the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, or scoring big in Vegas. But there are precious few of us who actually know someone who has had such luck much less win ourselves. The fact of the matter is that this country has been built with a tremendous amount of everyday, old fashioned work.

Everything you deserve will eventually come your way; drawn along in the jet stream of your hard work. Or, everything you deserve will eventually come your way due to your lack of work. I inform my students every year that, “If you do the work, I’ll take care of the grade, and if you don’t do the work, I’ll still take care of the grade.”

The fact of the matter is that the more you work, the better prepared you are, the more you have practiced and honed your skills, the better you will be able to perform and you will get more of the results you are seeking. If you are mentally prepared, better conditioned, stronger, more skillful than your opponent, what will be the results most of the time?

How do you know if what you have done is enough? When you get the results you are looking for; when you have reached and surpassed your stated goals, then you will know what it takes. You will have done enough, and as Vince Lombardi stated, “Each Sunday, after the battle, one group savors victory; another lives in the bitterness of defeat. The practice and the hard work of the season seem a small price for having won. For the loser there must be one hundred percent determination and dedication to win next time.” Until that moment of achievement, you have to operate on the faith and belief that what you are doing is moving you closer to what you desire. If you are not getting the results you are seeking, you must redouble your efforts and work harder at those skills which will take you over the top.

by CoachFree

HOW TO STOP A GOOD BACK

How to stop a good back: Don't let his get started - Get him before he gets to Jukeville! - "The 80 Yard Run" And how do you do that? "Our guys really don't have the threat of getting hurt in an actual game because they're just better, and better prepared, and they pLAy at a different speed - a different tempo." Coach Daddo, 'The 80 Yard Run' .......If your team is Bigger, Faster, Stronger & better prepared than the other team, you will get to that back before he gets to Jukeville most of the time. Remember, USC with O.J. Simpson lost to Ohio State's team defense in the Rose Bowl despite his running ability. Why? You guessed it - he never got to Jukeville. You may remember that Jack Tatum led that defense.

And that IS a Tackle. Tackling at all levels seems to be a lost art, but not here. OJ got away with one 8O yard scoring run but bottled up the remainder of the game. Who knows who the defensive backfield coach was for that game?

COACHING POINT

CoachFree read this coaching point on the plane today: To increase the team's attention when viewing this week's scout film, have each player 'grade' the player he will line up against for this week's game and check numbers against your evaluation. First I heard of this and I've been at it since the 50s.

Dr. K. Anders Ericsson is a psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University responsible for the study (2007) leading to the development of the 10 year/10,000 Rule for developing expert performances and written about by Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers (2008), and Geoff Colvin, Talent Is Overrated (2008).

The implication for educators is that if we want our students & athletes to perform their absolute, level best as an 18 year old Senior, they need to be actively engaged in deliberate practice on or before age 8.

For 35 years, Bigger Faster Stronger has been in the business helping coaches and athletes raise the bar on athletic performances pioneering the BFS Readiness Program in the early 80s for use in Junior High and Middle Schools.

With these points in mind, in 2007 BFS Clinician Jeff Sellers established the State Championship Club of Fort Branch Indiana with the stated goal of playing for the 2015 AAA Football State Championship in Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis IN.

The first State Champion Club group with 4th graders. There now are 3-4, 5-6, 7-8th groups that working together. They have just finished football season and the 8th graders have chalked up a 37-0 record over the 4 year time period. Success at all levels and sports (football, basketball, baseball) is off the charts.

We are in the initial stages of gathering information and developing a program that can be “Cloned” and implemented in your setting.

I am checking interest. What are your thoughts? We know that following the BFS Core Program enhances athletic performance. Everything we do at BFS is designed to help athletes run faster, jump higher and be more explosive. From our personal experience with family members (and other clinician children), the program works at all levels, all ages. On a scale form one to ten, how interested would you be in starting a State Championship Club program at your district?

Is Your Mission enough to maintain motivation?