One Leadership Principle to Improve Performance //SPARTAN COMBAT ep 012
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Brian Ferentz is the offensive coordinator for the University of Iowa Football team. His father, Kirk, is one of the most successful college coaches of all time. Before his tenure with the Hawks, Brain wrestled in high school, played in the NFL and worked as an assistant coach under Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick. In this episode, we cover the one leadership principle that can drastically raise your team's performance.
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| 1:16.0 | I'm a Brad Smith coach me. |
| 1:18.0 | So I was at City High from 2000, the wrestling seasons would have been 99 2000 and 2001. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay. |
| 1:28.0 | And before we came to Iowa City, my first two years of high school wrestling were at the Gilman School in Baltimore. |
| 1:35.8 | So probably the most, I'd say the most famous alum of the Gil Gilman schools guy named Mike Faust. |
| 1:43.3 | I don't know if you've ever heard that name. |
| 1:44.4 | He wrestled for he actually wrestled for Tom at Virginia Tech. |
| 1:48.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:49.4 | Off a transfer, he started at Penn. |
| 1:57.2 | And then he wrestled heavyweight for for Tom. He was actually my introduction wrestling. I didn't grow up wrestling because once we left Iowa, |
| 2:00.5 | you know, I was seven years old and we went to Maine. There's not a lot of wrestling in Maine. Okay, so either you play hockey or you kill yourself. That's those are the two things that Maine's known for. |
| 2:14.8 | That's a terrible thing to say and it's no laughing matter, |
| 2:18.1 | but they are the highest, at least when we were their highest suicide rate per capita in the United States. |
| 2:24.1 | It is an interesting place. |
| 2:27.1 | But hockey is king in name. |
| 2:28.9 | So when we went to, I was kind of a nomad in the winter sport world as a kid I played hockey when we lived in Maine |
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