How this Coach is using Rugby to change lives/ Joe Desena and the SCRUM movie
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Coach Frank McKinney, one of the first Black college rugby coaches in the US, says "I didn't get into coaching to win games. My thing is to make young men better." It turns out those are also the ingredients of a winning team.
Joe De Sena, founder and CEO of Spartan, interviews coach Frank McKinney and critically acclaimed filmmaker Thomas Morgan about the new film "Scrum" and the incredible story behind it.
Listen for the inspiring story, or for coach Frank's great coaching advice and insights. "I tell the players, the kind of dog I need is the dog that's in the junkyard, with the tire swing in the old Roy dog food. And he has a little bit of water. You don't want to put your hand through that fence. But the border collie you put your hand through the fence and pet. So I tell the kids no matter where they come from, I need junkyard dogs out there playing that's for us to be successful for us to win. You've got to be a junkyard dog on the field, in the classroom and in life."
He strives to bring diversity to a predominantly white Southern institution through recruiting athletes from marginalized communities. Coach McKinney is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion within higher education and uses his position as a rugby coach to create opportunities, mentorship, and resources for at-risk youth to help them see themselves access and succeed in college and beyond.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SCRUM:
https://99goodfilms.com/pages/scrum
https://www.instagram.com/scrumfilm/
Joe De Sena’s Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”
https://www.spartan.com/10Rules
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I call it the ingredients, right? I don't, I didn't get into coaching to win games right and I was and it's funny I say that and every time I tell coaches are like oh gosh but in reality |
| 0:19.7 | My thing is to make young men better and I think the reason why we have found success |
| 0:24.3 | is because those ingredients we've made sure are top notch, right? |
| 0:28.0 | So instead of saying, hey, we're waiting for the cake to be good, |
| 0:30.6 | we focus on the ingredients. |
| 0:31.9 | So when the ingredients are top-notch, |
| 0:33.9 | then the actual cake will be good. |
| 0:35.6 | And cake is winning. |
| 0:37.9 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descenta, |
| 0:42.0 | founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:46.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:51.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on the Spartan |
| 0:55.8 | up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 1:00.4 | This episode of Spartan up is brought to you by Duralain, a single injection that may provide up to six months relief from osteoarthritis knee pain. |
| 1:08.0 | Risks can include general knee pain and pain at the injection site. |
| 1:11.0 | You can see full prescribing information at doorlane.com. |
| 1:14.3 | Joe DeSena here, CEO founder of Spartan for the Spartan up podcast. I got two |
| 1:20.2 | buddies of mine, Frank McKinney and Thomas Morgan. |
| 1:23.0 | They've got a new film coming out called Scrum |
| 1:25.7 | that basically depicts Frank's journey. |
| 1:27.9 | Frank is doing the unimaginable. |
| 1:30.2 | He's got this school that had no rugby team, no diversity, and his lifelong mission was to get some diversity out on the field and create a winning rugby team. |
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