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I've listened to YouTube for a long time about the best ones you've ever coached.

They had one thing in common at least and they were willing to take coaching.

No matter how good they were, future first round draft picks, still taking coaching like he's a kindergartner.

I heard you talking the other day, you just started spring around here and you said, some guys, man, they get almost offended when you want to coach them and you've

been through this stuff forever so it's almost like old hat it's just here we go again but they're

going through it for the first time so how do you handle it without being so jaded and negative and

trying to kind of figuratively shake him and say hey this is the way it's got to be if you're ever

going to maximize your potential yeah it's a decision they have to make. I mean, the choice when you came here was I chose hard. I chose getting coached and constructive criticism. It's good for you to develop. And a lot of schools and coaches don't want to do that. So we still do it here. We do it hard. And most of our good players, like you mentioned,

they embrace that. They want that. Brock Bowers comes and says, how can I get better?

Show me another way. It's the same way for Devante Wyatt or Javon Buller. They want to be coached.

They want you to teach them how to do it. And I don't know that the masses the large numbers of the

culture we're dealing with now these these kids don't they don't really want

to be co-starred so they got to make a decision they come here they're going to

be do you ever like when you quality control everything you do ultimately

the responsibility falls on you when you lose the onus falls on you, and then

that downstream of that is your staff. But when you guys are in a staff meeting and you're not

feeling that guys are taking coaches, or taking coaching, at some point, like, it's got to be on them,

but from your vantage point, from your perspective, on your side of the fence, what different measures can you enact to try and sort of expedite that process? I think a better relationship with the kid. It starts with that. I mean, I call in a couple kids a day and just say, hey, what's going on? I want to make sure that we're reaching you the right way. Do you understand why we're trying to help you and the way we're

going about it and make sure the kid knows that it's really for his long-term benefit?

Entitlement's always been part of our society. Entitlement has grown into athletes. I mean,

most athletes grow up entitled. He's the best one to do this so he gets pushed along whether he deserves it or not. But I think it's an alarming rate right now in terms of there's an entitlement of more people so they don't end up successful in year five, six, seven. They think they're successful in year one, two, three, but we're going to see the effect of this. They're not going to be where they need to be five, six, seven, because they don't handle the criticism that comes with it.

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