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What we Lost this week in Coaching

Since 2001

In College Football:
🏈 346 College Wins
💍9 National Titles
🏆7 Heisman’s
🥇17 Conference Titles

In the NFL:
🏈398 Wins
💍7 Super Bowls
🏅10 SB Appearances
🕺28 Playoff Appearances

The Greatest Show in the history of TV debuted 25 Years ago today! #TheSopranos

I’m gonna attempt to translate this:

QJ: Coach I want to be a Rebel in almost the worse way but the life span of a RB isn’t long. Pay me close to this amount and I’ll stay

LK: We just spent most of our Money on an elite portal class to build a great team around you

QJ: I’m…

Brands Matter & Times are Changing

This will be the first time in 14 years a Program not wearing the Nike check on their uniform will win the College Football National Championship

25 of last 26 have worn Nike

Adidas/ #purplereign or Jumpman/ #GoBlue will change that next week

✅Head Coach explains play pregame
✅Players relay info properly to official
✅Play executed properly
✅Great game becomes better
❌Flag gets thrown b/c official is in a rush and won’t listen
❌Public misses out on Cowboys with 23 seconds left and timeouts & best kicker in game…

Greatest Athlete of All Time?

-Drafted in 4 sports 🏀 🏈⚾️🏒
-College World Series of Omaha MVP despite team not winning Championship
-Turned in 1/2 ⚾️Scholarship for Full Scholarship in 🏀
-CollegeBaseballHoF HOF
-12 x MLB All Star
-6 x Silver Slugger
-7 x Gold Glover
-World Series Champ
-1st…

The Coach of Coach’s: Jack Leggett

His Protégé’s
⚾️3 National Championships
⚾️14 CWS Berths for Head Coaches
⚾️At least 11 Head Coaches in College Baseball
⚾️Over 40 Coaches in the Game

His Career
⚾️ABCA Hall of Famer
⚾️21 Regionals
⚾️6 CWS
⚾️12th All time in Wins…

The Best College Season Ever

-63-1 Record (Best Ever)
-54-0 Regular Season (Best Ever)
-57 game winning streak (Best Ever)
-NJCAA Baseball National Champs
-2009 Team Batting Title
-Part of 53 Consecutive conference wins (2008-2010)
-3 NJCAA All Americans
-4 MLB Draft picks…

Time to get to work parents!

The people that create the directions for kid toys collectively laugh at all of us tonight

I hope there children wake them up at 4am

Matt Deggs, Head Coach at Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns® Baseball may be the most brilliant offensive mind I’ve ever been around

On top of that he has a real ability to connect & deliver a message in a number of different ways

When I would walk by him I had a habit of saying “What’s Up?”

His…

HS Pitchers in the 1st Round in the MLB Draft

2010-2014: over 7 were taken per year
2019-2023: 3 per year were taken
2023: only 1 was picked

Out of the Top 30 pitchers in @MLB WAR per FanGraphs Baseball last season (2023) only 2 were HS pitchers selected in the 1st Round

Kids…

In honor of #NSD24 here is the Star Rating of the NFL’s best QB’s

Jalen Hurts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Joe Burrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Patrick Mahomes ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lamar Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Josh Allen ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brock Purdy ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dak Prescott ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aaron Rodgers 🤷🏼‍♂️

Talent is needed, Development is necessary!

🔥 away

Kerrick Jackson/Kerrick Jackson

-1st Black Head Coach in the SEC (2023)
-1 of 12 Black Head Coaches in Division 1 Basseball (4% of 300 Coaches)
-1 of 4 Black Head Coaches in P5…Ever!

Coaches are typically developed by playing the sport at that level in college, not the only…

Chip Kelly over the weekend had some brilliant things to say in this 100 seconds

If College Baseball appointed a commissioner, who would that be?

Here’s my first thought:

The financial gymnastics and creativity Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers are pulling off is rivaled only by every successful College Baseball Coach who deals with:

-40 roster spots
-32 Counters
-11.7
-The Portal
-The Collective
-NIL
-The Draft
-Recruiting 4 classes at a time…