As a coach, I frequently get the question, "How can I play in college?" and "what does it take to play at the college level."
I will post blogs answering the question. In addition, there will be posts answering on the topics:
"How to be successful as a college player" and "How to be successful in life."
First and foremost (more important that skill) is desire. How bad do you want to play at the college level? If it is important, it can happen with investments of time and effort.
You do need the ability to play, but you must have the desire. It has no price tag. It's the important ingredient. Coaches will say it is hard to teach desire.
There are enough places to play that if you are good enough and are willing to go anywhere you can find a place to play at the college level.
A frequent problem is players think they have to be a big time school to get the feel of playing in college. There are thousands of players that played at smaller schools and will say it was the best experience of their lives.
It is your career. It is not someone else's to try and live through you.
Having desire means I will work and pay whatever the price is I have to pay. Nothing will keep me from my goal. I will think about the goal every day.
I talked to a college coach last night who has a former player now playing in the NBA. I asked if he thought the kid would make it at that level. The player is small by NBA standards, and most scouts thought he was not good enough to make the jump to the next level.
The coach told me, "I would have never bet against him making it in the NBA". I asked "why?" The coach pointed to his heart. "The kid has too much heart not to make it. “ The player we were discussing is now starting in the NBA.
As coaches, we talk about not being able to teach "heart and desire". It has to come from the player. If they have desire, they can be taught fundamentals and skills to improve each year.
Pete Maravich Assembly Center
Friday, March 30, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Life quote by Chuck Noll
Former NFL coach Chuck Noll as quoted in article by #PeterKing "When you're making an important life decision, make sure it's without regard to money, title or position. Make sure it's about who you're going to be working with and how much you'll enjoy being there."
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Story by one the best
Great writer with good story http://m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?storyId=7736293
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Living in the Bluegrass state for three years I know what this game means
Article on the up coming matchup
http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/25/2126132/john-clay-uk-and-u-of-l-in-the.html
http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/25/2126132/john-clay-uk-and-u-of-l-in-the.html
Calipari has to win to prove he is a winner
Article in Calipari and one and done: http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/25/caliparis-success-xxxxy-xx-gh-hg-g-hgh-gh-xxx/
BrianTracy
@coachkelsey: Reading Brian Tracy and his stuff for a while. usually is right on point. Great article for head coaches and future jc http://t.co/dmCinoD4
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Win or lose
This was from a post by Coach Gary Colson
WIN OR LOSE
Only one team wins the Super Bowl.
For each player on the NY Giants going to Disney World after the game there is a player on the New England Patriots going home disappointed without the joy of victory.
It's a lot like life.
Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.
Sometimes we win the account, the game, the job promotion, the award and sometimes we lose the very thing we want most.
Winning matters. Losing matters. But in life what matters most is what we do with our wins and losses.
When we win do we become complacent or stay humble and hungry?
People often say that success breeds success but often it breeds complacency. After a win people think they can just show up and achieve the same result, forgetting the effort, determination and mindset it took to achieve the win.
To continue winning it's essential to turn the euphoria of winning into a fire of burning desire that fuels your continuous improvement, passion, and quest for excellence.
Even more important than what we do after our wins is how we respond to our losses.
Do we give up or come back stronger?
Do we allow the loss to act like a cancer that eats away at us for the rest of our life or do we turn it into a learning opportunity that leads to our healthy growth?
I certainly know what it feels like to lose. I've lost many arguments with my wife. : ) The Energy Bus was rejected by the first 30 publishers. As a sales person years ago I lost as many accounts as I won. I lost too many games as a Lacrosse player at Cornell and now I watch my children lose tennis matches and lacrosse games.
Everyone loses but the key is to make the loss stand for something and in my family LOSS now stands for:
LOSS (Learning Opportunity, Stay Strong)
When we lose we ask what we can learn from this loss and how we can improve because of it. Then we stay strong and work harder to come back and try to win.
This leads to more wins in the future...and also eventually more loses...and more learning opportunities and opportunities to stay strong and develop our character.
Through this process of winning and losing we learn the greatest lesson of all:
No matter how hard we work and how much we improve there will be times when we experience the worst of defeats instead of the greatest of victories. But ultimately life is about more than winning or losing. It’s about the lessons we learn, the character and strength we build and the people we become along the way.
Whether we win the Super Bowl or not, when we realize this we will surely be a winner in the game of life!
WIN OR LOSE
Only one team wins the Super Bowl.
For each player on the NY Giants going to Disney World after the game there is a player on the New England Patriots going home disappointed without the joy of victory.
It's a lot like life.
Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.
Sometimes we win the account, the game, the job promotion, the award and sometimes we lose the very thing we want most.
Winning matters. Losing matters. But in life what matters most is what we do with our wins and losses.
When we win do we become complacent or stay humble and hungry?
People often say that success breeds success but often it breeds complacency. After a win people think they can just show up and achieve the same result, forgetting the effort, determination and mindset it took to achieve the win.
To continue winning it's essential to turn the euphoria of winning into a fire of burning desire that fuels your continuous improvement, passion, and quest for excellence.
Even more important than what we do after our wins is how we respond to our losses.
Do we give up or come back stronger?
Do we allow the loss to act like a cancer that eats away at us for the rest of our life or do we turn it into a learning opportunity that leads to our healthy growth?
I certainly know what it feels like to lose. I've lost many arguments with my wife. : ) The Energy Bus was rejected by the first 30 publishers. As a sales person years ago I lost as many accounts as I won. I lost too many games as a Lacrosse player at Cornell and now I watch my children lose tennis matches and lacrosse games.
Everyone loses but the key is to make the loss stand for something and in my family LOSS now stands for:
LOSS (Learning Opportunity, Stay Strong)
When we lose we ask what we can learn from this loss and how we can improve because of it. Then we stay strong and work harder to come back and try to win.
This leads to more wins in the future...and also eventually more loses...and more learning opportunities and opportunities to stay strong and develop our character.
Through this process of winning and losing we learn the greatest lesson of all:
No matter how hard we work and how much we improve there will be times when we experience the worst of defeats instead of the greatest of victories. But ultimately life is about more than winning or losing. It’s about the lessons we learn, the character and strength we build and the people we become along the way.
Whether we win the Super Bowl or not, when we realize this we will surely be a winner in the game of life!
Be a leader
"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."~ Vince Lombard
Thursday, March 15, 2012
We pray for blessings
We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise
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