Baltimore City Community College (D1 JUCO/Region 20) Head Men’s Basketball Coach, US Navy Vet, SIU Alum ‘09, UMD Alum 13’, Saginaw MI born/raised/ Leader of Men
HEY ATHLETES: That coach, the one that’s on you everyday... calling you out... challenging you to be better. Yea that one, that coach loves you! Embrace it!
Dear High School Athletes
You’ve got your entire life to work or hang out with your friends. You’ve only got 4 years to be a good teammate and worry about nothing but school and sports. DONT WASTE IT.
High School Athletes, if I can’t count on you to be at off-season workouts 2-3 times a week without reaching out to you asking where you are... why should I waist my time promoting you to college coaches for recruitment... that doesn’t make since!
2024s (Men’s) Transfers, Post Grads, Preps, Seniors. Clock is ticking, drop your info and film. D1 JUCO/ Scholarship and opportunity are on the table. The toughest grind in college basketball, some can’t handle it🤷🏽♂️
@bcccmbb
Sometimes as a coach, it comes to a point where you have to focus on the kids that want to be helped because the kids that don't will waist everyone's time. SMH... wake up young kids🏀💯‼️🙏🏽
Students:Poor grades are rarely due to a lack of intelligence. A low GPA often times indicate:
• Poor time management
• A lack of discipline
• No motivation
• Immaturity
• Priorities being out of order
Focus on what matters. Getting a quality education will change your life
Student Athletes: Are you really gonna wait until your senior year to make that commitment and sacrifice for the greater good of your team!? C'mon, you can't be that stubborn ‼️🏀💯🤔
STUDENT ATHLETES: A team’s growth capacity is mostly determined by each individual’s personal willingness to do the work required, not by the environment, the competition, or the resources. Are you doing the work to get to the next level? ‼️🏀❤️
High School Athletes know this! A quiet gym is a losing gym. As coaches, we can coach you or we can energizeor motivate you. We shouldn’t have to do both. Which do you want your coach to do?💯‼️🏀
Coach Prime situation shows that people love you as long as you’re doing the things they want you to do, as soon as people don’t like what you’re doing, what you’ve done for them is forgotten
@DeionSanders
PSA: You are not defined by other people’s perceptions and opinions. You define who you are by your own vision, words(borrowed or not), thoughts and actions. So place lazer focus on those things that define you and blaze your own trail🏀💯‼️❤️
Sometimes we can get so caught up into what’s not going our way, that we absolutely forget all the other things that are going right. I’m super proud to be who I am, where I am at this moment. Asking God to keep on blessing me to be a blessing to others🏀‼️
It's crazy to see how many kids play the game but don't really know how to perform the basic fundamentals. Trainers got kids dribbling the air out of the ball around crash test dummies but don't know what the Mikan drill is.
Young athletes... wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it... right is always right, even if no one else is doing it‼️💯🏀❤️. With that being said... let’s be a blessing to others today✌🏽
I know MJ is getting a bad rep for his passion towards pushing his teammates but you have to realize.... this happens in EVERY gym across the country with guys that are hungry to win🤷🏽♂️. Nobody else would allow this to be televised...
@humble_slice
I haven’t analyzed his record/ past success or failures prior. None of those things for me, has anything to do with the statement and how I perceive it🤷🏽♂️
When a coach sets high standards for his/her program...the WINNERS will love it and the LAZY will leave, including coaches. Either way, the team improves. 💯🏀🤘🏿
PSA: What went wrong is already over, the focus going forward should always be the positive opportunity that came from what went wrong. Use that opportunity to become better so that what went wrong doesn't happen again💯🏀‼️🤟🏽
It’s something special about this time of year... I can’t sleep, all I can do is think about the program and all the possibilities. I might be obsessed, I might need mental, medical attention ... but I absolutely love it‼️❤️🏀💯🤘🏿🏀🤦🏾♂️
Pat Riley said that the hardest thing to do as a coach is to get players to do the things they don’t want to do in order to achieve what they want. Can we also add.. parents having a standard and actually holding your child accountable to that standard‼️
@todd_blythe
You have administration with no background in sports or no idea about coaching making irrational decisions to keep selfish parents off their backs.. they just don’t want to deal with parents so coaches are the scapegoat... see it all the time.
Most of the time in life we have to muster up enough courage to make life changing decisions, right or wrong, and be able to live with those decisions. Not making a decision... is still deciding!!🤔
@TheHoopHerald
This is a Christian/bible college. Not an NCAA school. They can’t recruit 5⭐️they need the funding so they’re playing these games. Staff and students know they can’t compete but they’ve bout into trying to help build the school and team… commendable.
Student Athletes: The first step in having a great team is applying the WE, NOT ME mindset in everything that is incorporated within your team. Being sincere about that mindset and showing pride in that mindset. You're well on your way after that💯🏀🚀‼️
Sometimes as a coach you have to take a step back from the game and everything else ... just to hit the reset button. For those of us that are serious about this game and changing live’s... the grind is a grueling one‼️💯🏀❤️‼️😴🛩🛳🏝
A lot of coaching basketball is dealing with things that happen outside of basketball. Issues that we help these kids through will have the coaches in therapy sessions when it’s all said and done🤦🏾♂️
At this point... nobody cares about these kids announcing and releasing there final 10-20 schools... man, just pick a school and move on young fella!!! Stop hyping the transfer and the picking🙄
College transfers, Postgrad/prep and unsigned 2024 seniors. D1 JUCO tryouts. Yet another opportunity. Reach out with any questions. Use QR code to register.
A lot of early hip replacements coming soon as a result of this shot🤦🏾♂️ I bet none of those surgeries will be recorded and posted on social media😂🤣🤦🏾♂️🤣‼️
@TheRealCoachG_
@MPSSAA_Org
@Deque77
There was absolutely no real thought put into this decision.
@MPSSAA_Org
, where can we see the specifics, on paper, on how this plan is the most beneficial to ALL kids in Maryland?! This is real NCAA like....
Canceling games because of this lil snow we got in the left picture. Kids in Saginaw Michigan have to walk to practice and games in snow like the picture on the right. Point is, it’s not the kids fault that some are not tough enough to play this game🤷🏽♂️🏀
Young players, if you don't like a coach who's always on you in practice and about your grades, being respectful of your teammates and coaches, being on time to practice and study hall.. way until you play for a coach that doesn't care about anything but wins
The moment you start eyeballing others peoples journey, you start to stray from your own path to greatness. Keep your head down, eyes front and keep grinding🤷🏽♂️
I’m pretty sure being up this late is not good for a coach in his early 40’s but hey.... when you eat, sleep, think about and love the game as much as I do...time, dates and everything else flies buy. The season is close at hand‼️💯🏀❤️💛💜💚🏀😍🏀🏀
Your conviction has to cost you something.. what are you willing to sacrifice to get where you claim you want to be. Your path is not anyone else’s path‼️How long will it take you to get there?‼️🏀❤️💯