For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.
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Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.
Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
There needs to be a college football commissioner.
I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.
As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.