Rhett Lashlee - SMU head football coach on CFB success, humility, culture and leadership
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast:
- SMU head football coach Rhett Lashlee joins us to share insights on building a winning culture in college football, navigating the challenges of modern college athletics, and the significance of discipleship and community in maintaining spiritual health.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:30.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm my host, Matt Forte here with Jason Romano. |
| 0:34.5 | And Jason, we got on the podcast today, coach of SMU football team |
| 0:39.1 | head coach, Coach Rhett Lashley. Coach, I want to start with you personally because you've been |
| 0:45.9 | on Sports Spectrum before, I think back in 20 to 2021, 22 maybe. And I guess when you hear coach, I know from my perspective as a player, as a former |
| 0:57.3 | player, when you hear coach, that's kind of an identity, a coach. I want to know as you speak to |
| 1:05.2 | our listeners, how do you remove yourself from that? Not that you want to remove yourself, but how do you, you know, don't get wrapped up in that coaching being your only identity? |
| 1:17.8 | Yeah, that's a great question. |
| 1:20.4 | You know, I've said before that coaching is what I do. It's not who I am. |
| 1:25.9 | And so, but man, it's like anything else. We can get really |
| 1:30.6 | wrapped up in what we're doing. And that can pretty quickly without us even knowing it, become |
| 1:36.7 | our identity or become, you know, more than it needs to be. You know, I think there's a couple |
| 1:42.0 | ways. You know, one, my family helps |
| 1:44.4 | keep that all in perspective. My family's without question my why and what's important to me. |
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