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[00:01:42] I Never really made a decision ever to be a coach or not. It was like, one of those things where I just knew that I would be.
[00:03:00] I relate it to the priesthood. Heard a guy years ago, he said, if you can get out of the priesthood, you probably should. If you cannot, it's your calling? I think that's coaching, at least for me, anyway.
[00:04:00] Real quickly, you learn you don't know as much as you think you do.
[00:05:04] It would have been different at each school.
[00:06:01] When I coached high school, we never had anybody who didn't graduate. When I coached junior college, we had 109 out of 115, only six guys, 19 years of did not graduate go to four-year school. At Sac State, we're 42 out of 43.
[00:06:42] I always say this do your words and your actions line up? If they do you're authentic, if they don't, you're not.
[00:08:22] Carol Williams, Dick Davey model is pretty much what we do and that wasn't intentional. It just happens. You're a product of who you are for sure.
[00:09:24] Never hire anyone who's not smarter than you.
[00:12:42] I think players and coaches, when things get tough, what are you going to do? Are you going to bail out and blame others, or are you going to be loyal?
[00:14:04] If the person is loyal and if the person is hard working, we'll figure out recruiting.
[00:15:38] If you really understand what you value and also that you don't know everything, and you want to have culture built on honesty.
[00:18:17] I realized that all of my friends, all of my friends are older coaches, every single one of them.
[00:19:56] The head coach’s ability to get everyone in the organization to see the game through his eyes. Every person from the manager, to the trainer, to the strength coach, to the 15th man, they have to be able to see the game through the head coaches’ eyes.
[00:22:46] I didn't really network. I never networked. What I did was I tried to work really hard at the craft of the game.
[00:25:28] It's not so much me, it's who I recruit.
[00:26:46] I keep talking about patience. Be more patient. Everything doesn't have to be done today, and everything doesn't have to be done perfect.
[00:27:56] You inherently build in the why before they even ask
[00:29:07] I believe you're recruiting everybody who you interact with every day.
[00:30:41] We call it big brother, little brother.
[00:32:06] He calls the safe chair.
[00:32:52] Culture of honesty.
[00:34:23] I think the key is to get really good at your craft so, bear with me on this, you can win enough to have the fruits of relationships come back towards you.
[00:35:47] I like the off season better than during the season because the off season, you have eight months of really enjoying your players.
[00:37:58] I tell players, Hey, our relationship will truly begin when you are not playing for me anymore.
[00:40:33] So I sought Terry out. I invite him to work my camp, take him out to lunch and we'd talk. So, the relationship grew to the day and we're still very close.
[00:43:26] I think the biggest deciding factor will be your family, and here's why.