Good Morning America; It's Friday! Game Day!! Friday is my Favorite Day!!!

Good Luck with your games this week! Many of you are fighting for playoff spots. KSA!!!

It's time for most of you to run some laps, or as we used to call them, "Extra Opportunities!" The purpose of this BLOG is to share information, especially that on coaching. Yesterday, I put up a post about Coach Tressel and what he does mentally after laying an egg out there on the field and that if you emailed me at coachfreeb@bfsmail.com I would send out what that three step process is.

Now here we have a golden nugget from one of the most successful coaches in the game today, recommended to you by a coach who has been in the game for a 4 decade career and only two of the 40 people who read the BLOG yesterday emailed and asked for the info.

In addition, less than a handful of the 600 people that have read the BLOG since I put it up there last month have posted a comment. Those of you who have, thanks for your contribution. For the rest of you, What's holding your back? The number one way that I got better was to learn from others who had been there. The number two way was to learn after laying an egg, and some of those eggs were rotten and stinky.

In psychology class we would talk about how, in life, lessons will be repeated until learned. Maybe, just maybe, there something there from Coach Tressel's remarks that would save you from having to be fixated in your development because you haven't learned the lesson you need to learn.

And I can tell you that in the process of lesson learning, life will present to you a lesson of ever increasing magnitude till that lesson is learned.

In my Be An 11 Seminar, we present 11 points on Being An 11 that stem from my 40 years in the business. Point #11 is Compete. Competition brings out the best in you . . . and them. If you have a weakness in your 'game.' Competition will expose that weakness in a hurry. On more than one occasion, we were able to take a struggling program and through training and hard work that program was able to elevate themselves to a state Top 10 program. So . . . the point of the Seminar is, "On a scale of 1-10, how good do you want to be? Why not choose to Be An 11!" And if you do the first 10 things, you get to compete with the Top 10 teams in the state. And that competition will bring out the best in you and them . . . and it will expose your weaknesses (lessons will be repeated until learned).

So what do you do when you get to that point and then lay an egg? That's what Tressel is talking about here. Why would you not want to know?

So, I am giving you all 10 extra laps to run for your poor performance on the BLOG this week.

Tell you what . . . Jim has a great story that goes along with the three step process on learning from adversity. When we get to 15 requests for the info, I will post up the story. It's a really good one.

Oh! I almost forgot. Do you want to know what those 11 points of Being an 11, Top 10 programs in your state are? You'll have to email me: coachfreeb@aol.com.