BACK TO BACK COACH OF THE YEAR
You don’t win any awards without GREAT players and a GREAT coaching staff. Blessed to have both around me at my time at Lakeland. “If you want to go fast you go alone, if you want to go far you go as a team”
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This thread literally tells you everything you need to know about how people think on Twitter. If you owe taxes on your house the bank will take it, and resell it for profit lol NOBODY HAS A PROBLEM WITH THAT. But if a regular person does it then he a bad person? 🤦🏽♂️
After a great conversation with the manager at Chipotle, I’m blessed to receive a full veggie bowl. I would like to thank everybody at Chipole for making this possible!
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ORU coach said he gives his players 6 weeks to make 20,000 shots and one of his players did it in 6 days lol MAKE 20k SHOTS IN 6 DAYS!!! Are you a shooter or not? Cause it’s some stuff you have to do when nobody is looking to be a shooter.
I really don’t want to be the coach that ruins basketball for you. But if you don’t like working on your game and practicing I’m not the coach for you.
Holding the ball in a high school game is crazy to me. Most of them kids won’t play basketball past high school so this is the end for them, and they practice all week for you to hold the ball for 5 minutes to win? Nah , I can’t get with it and I love to win too, not that way lol
Going from senior star basketball player in high school to freshman role player is hard for somebody that hasn’t gotten over they self yet. Get in the gym, this game loves NOBODY , but it favors those who really do the work.
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When a AAU coach keep telling you how many kids “he sent D1” run lol 9/10 most of those kids was going D1 no matter who they played for ,all he did was drive him to the tournament WHERE THE D1 coaches was at lol ask him about the NAIA and juco coaches he know lol
Last summer I was pulling up to AAU games just to watch games cause I love hoops. Now I’m pulling up in a college polo and kids look at me differently lol crazy how your life can change in one year lol
You was on Twitter begging for a coach to take a chance on you last summer. Out of all the colleges in the world only ONE coach gave you a chance. Now after one semester you transferring on the only coach that gave you a opportunity? That don’t make any sense to me lol.
Basketball can bring people from different backgrounds, from different states, and different countries together. I love that part of it. You can go from complete strangers to family because of a round ball.
If you tell me you have no offers, and I plug you in with a coach offering scholarship money and you tell me “I’m not really considering that level” I’m just gone block you lol you can’t have NO OPTIONS and tell me what you gone consider. 🤦🏽♂️
First win as a college head coach is something I will never forget and to do it on the road is the icing on the cake. Proud of my boys for battling through adversity and excited to what the rest of the season holds.
#WriteYourOwnStory
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I’m not against transferring but I never understood transferring after your freshman year just cause you didn’t play. After being in the program a year and learning the defense surely you should be in a better position year two, right? What’s your thoughts about this?
If you don’t love playing basketball why would you want to play college basketball? After high school it’s like a job. So if you don’t love it why would you even do it?
I know going D1 is the goal for most basketball players and juco can help you get there if your talent is of that for a D1 school to invest in you. Don’t think the world is over because no D1’s are calling now, just put your head down and get to work. It’s a marathon...
The school you just signed to and made a 4 minute commitment video for just signed two players out of the transfer portal at your position, what you gone do?
Y’all be lying to these kids so much I see why they act the way they act. Everybody not a full scholarship player, everybody don’t get a shoe box full of offers and get to pick a hat on signing day. Some people get one offer and have to rock with it. Stop lying to kids PLEASE.
Beat the
#1
team in the country yesterday on a neutral site court. Everybody played so hard I couldn’t be more proud of my players and my assistant coach! Come recruit my guys. I have 11 sophomores!
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Take it all in. Started my coaching career at a small prep school in Hinesville, Georgia. Living with 10 players in a 4 bed room house making $600 a month. Now I’m a head coach of my own program with my own 3 bedroom house. Still hungry to prove my self. Outwork & Network !
Team awards are important to me. This is a TEAM award. Shout out to my team and coaches for putting me on they back and giving me a hell of a ride! More work to do!
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My PG went D2 and my SG went D1 so you can stop telling your unsigned seniors they have to go other places to get recruited. You can get recruited here if you can hoop. Players work hard on the court I work hard to help get them recruited. 🤷🏾♂️
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Both of my sophomores received FULL SCHOLARSHIPS. That’s such a blessing! Glad both of them allowed me to coach them. Being a first time college head coach I leaned on them A LOT and they made me look like I can coach! I’m gone miss them! 🙏🏾
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Two different type of full scholarships:
Full scholarship = school pays for EVERYTHING and you get your full pell grant back. $7,395
Full scholarship= school packages scholarship money with your pell grant so you don’t have to pay for anything.
Kid road the Greyhound bus to a juco event to perform in front of coaches and give his self a chance to get recruited? That’s a kid that clearly wants it. A lot of kids not willing to do stuff like that. Sometimes you have to go to the extreme to get noticed.
Actions >>> words
One of the key things I’m looking for when recruiting this year is if the kid even likes to play basketball. I know that sounds strange but it’s real lol I always feel like if you have to be forced to workout or come in the gym early you really don’t like playing basketball…
D2 juco
Part time coaches
No full scholarships
No dorms
No social media team
Small budget
It don’t matter, just get it done. The kids deserve the best. We gone keep working!
All I want for Christmas is for people to stop sending me players that they THINK are are “juco kids” because they got bad grades. 🤦🏽♂️ send me the kids with good grades lol I don’t want to beg a player to do his work or go to class all year, that’s stressful.
Guards that’s willing to defend and rebound >>> FDU got that.
Coaches tend to give those guys freedom on offense too… ( you didn’t hear it from me tho )
Before you up and transfer on a coaching staff that believed in you ask your self what can you do better to put you in a better position to be successful. I’m not against transferring but some players be running from the truth.
A lot of high school kids enter college with fake confidence. When they was the best player on they high school team they had all the confidence in the world. When they get to college and now they they 10th best player in the gym the confidence is gone. How do they get it back?
I connected a kid with a D2 yesterday. It wasn’t even hard, just found the D2 schools in his state & sent them the kids film. Coach said he liked him and wanted him to come on a unofficial visit, probably to see him hoop against his team. Kid has to go in there and show his self.
If you in the class of 2021 and looking for your first offered drop you film below. Coaches starting to ask for players. All I’m doing is retweeting film. The more eyes that see you the more opportunities will come.
Pell grants are important!
Pell grants are important!
Pell grants are important!
I know never every basketball player think they a full scholarship player but that’s just not the case lol if a school can package your pell grant with scholarship money that’s basically a full! 💡
It’s not weird to y’all when AAU coaches or high school coaches don’t want they players talking to college coaches they self? Or they don’t want another coach telling colleges about they player? Or they hog they film and don’t give it to the player? That stuff is just weird to me
Y’all really have to stop looking at other kids recruitment thinking you deserve what they got because you have no idea who is committing to schools to take out hella loans. Run your own race, most of this stuff on social media be smoke and mirrors lol
If that D1 haven’t called yet they can’t call tomorrow because it’s dead period. Might as well answer the phone from that juco coach you been ignoring. Lol join the LakeShow ! 🌊
Drove 1,100 miles from Kansas to Ohio for 🏀 . Stayed in a hotel for two weeks until I closed on my first home. First generation home owner!!! I got a long story to tell about the house buying process lol, but I will save it for another time lol
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After talking to my family and coaches I have decided to de commit from Chipotle and open my recruitment back up. Me and my family ask for no interviews during this time. Respect my decision.
Proverbs 3:5–6
After a great conversation with the manager at Chipotle, I’m blessed to receive a full veggie bowl. I would like to thank everybody at Chipole for making this possible!
#MoreWorkToDo
#Blessed
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I remember I was in college sitting in the back of the bus after games just thinking to my self that all the hard work will pay off.
Now I’m a coach sitting at the front of the bus still thinking how all the hard work will pay off. Just have to be consistent.
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Texas Tech head coach said let me hire dudes that can get me players. 😳 he not playing around. I be telling people getting players is the biggest part of the game.
I don’t take it lightly that all 15 of my players are eligible for the second semester. Some stuff just be bigger than basketball. If you don’t want to go to class and do your work you can’t play for me. Let’s keep learning these LIFE lessons, recruiting will be there!
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I have no basketball goals for this season. Just trying to keep everyone eligible , get everyone recruited and teach them life skills through basketball.
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I invited so many high school teams to our games & practices. Alot of kids coming from high school have this false sense that they will come to college and be able to do the same things they did in high school, and that’s just not the case lol most will struggle and that’s okay.
The full scholarship topic is always a big one on Twitter. Here are some full scholarship situations.
-School pay’s EVERYTHING- you get your pell grant back.
-Pell grant + Basketball money so your balance is 0.
-Pell grant + Academic money+ basketball money so balance is 0.