If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals and cheapness.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously the drive with the guys that I've been around

and the guys that surround me every single day.

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best in the.

Okay, so that which gets praised gets repeated.

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a good counsel. Before we jump into some of the dynamics experiencing in the private school and

some of the things that you're facing this upcoming year, I want to go back to just the public school.

Okay. When I first met you, you were coaching a high school, Clarksburg High School.

Yep. I'm curious because there's a, I've always been intrigued with this.

Let's talk about some of the dynamics between coaching at a public school

versus coaching at a private school.

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