1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Managing your time as a student-athlete: April 27th, 10:25am

Episode Date: April 27, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Sponsored by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Yabba-a-da-a-do. I got an issue and apology real quick. Get it, get it, get it, get. The late great, Dwayne Haskins did not say that you are not here to play school. You're here to play ball. That was 12-gauge.

Cardell Jones. He was still right. He was still right. He was still right. Like there is a difference. There's just been so many great Ohio State quarterbacks. They were all there to play ball. Even if they were good students, they were there to play ball in school.

Here's what I'll ask you. What was Cardinal Jones' GPA? You don't know. No idea, but you know his stats. And you also know that he once went to a children's hospital and beat a kid like 98 to zero on NCAA football. Right? Like you know what Dwayne Haskins did at the University, at Ohio State University. Like 50 touchdowns and like one interception.

right that's what it is they you know why they sell that's why you can sell dwayne has to you know why because he's a football player let me know when they sell like lines lab science lab t-shirts academic all-american t-shirts which which if literally that's a million dollar idea that's a million dollar idea to have universities actually put the focus on what they say the focus is until they admit that that's not the focus i'm always amazed when they show a student athlete with like a 4.0 GPA and then you look at their major and it's something like neuroscience and I'm like how?

You live with that life. How do you even... Well, we were talking about. Where in the time that you have throughout the day between practice and eating and rehab, do you find time to study neuroscience to a high enough level to have a 4.0? Like what?

You're beating the people who don't put 40 hours a week in football. Goodness gracious. Well, but it's what Kobe Webster. It's what Derek Walker, it's what all these folks have said. What they've said is, quite frankly, if you make it a priority in focus, then it remains a priority in focus. It's a while. I know everybody has the same hours. He's an academic all-America.

Everybody has the same hours of the day, but most of your hours are spent doing something else. No, but see, this is the part. As a part of being a coach, a part of what I wanted to do through Love Prince was to create an academic program that shortened the space between academic success. and failure. The student athlete at the end of my bench and the one at the front of it have the same 168 hours a week. They have the same. So then I just needed to put boundaries in place to make them accountable for those things. And we as a team, every team that I've ever coached had 3.5 GPA as the standard.

Like you can't just achieve it and just say, well, we don't put any attention to it. It is a constant thing. We talk, every team of ever coach talked more about the 3.5 GPA than we did about winning games. You know why? Because I figured out this. If they were tied in the academic achievement success and if they were connected in it, they were going to handle the football stuff, the baseball stuff, the basketball stuff at the same level because you're the same kid on the field as you are off.

It's the same. So purposefully, at the beginning of the season, in order you to play for me, you had to fill out your 168. which tells me what you do with the 168 hours of a week that you do. And the answers are incredible, incredible personality profiles. Like when a young person tells you, well, look, I spend five hours on social media. I spend three hours in prayer at church with my family. I spend six hours babysitting my little brother. I spend two hours visiting with my family.

I spend and all those things. And then you ask them to be aware because the first thing that anybody says to you about, it's just what you just did. the greatest excuse for academic failure is I simply do not have the time. That is the ask anybody the thing that they want to work on in their life and the greatest excuse, the simple excuse

is I do not have the time. But you have the same 168 that the person who gets it done does. It's choice. It is awareness. It is a commitment to it. It's accountability. And so for all of my,

of the four states that I've coached in, three sports, four states, 30 plus years. 30 plus years. Over the course of that, do you know that 78% of my student athletes aren't student athletes? They're scholar athletes.

They all achieved 3.5 GPA or higher. That is on purpose. That is with a plane. And then here's the weird thing. I tell people this all the time. The weird thing that happened was we also won 78% of our games. And I said,

I knew my team's success level, once I found out how much time they were willing to commit to doing the first thing first, which is academics. Right? Simplicity. Yeah. And then the teams that committed at 85%, won at 85%. The mass number, the median number,

the total number is 75%, 78%. Because once you commit to a team goal and an individual goal of the hardest thing you have to accomplish and the biggest priority, then everything else becomes easier because now you know how to achieve. And within that 168, you've got to teach them how to study. I asked them to commit five more minutes a week

with every teacher that they have, five more minutes just to make sure that they got all the assignments, they got all the homework, they got all the things in class that were important and of value and it allowed the teacher to know whether their message was being heard. Now, they would then get signatures for every class. And then they would have to, every Friday, they get a signature. They spend five minutes with every teacher they had.

Now, all the teachers in school celebrate, you know why? Because they now knew that it mattered to the student athletes. They also knew whether their lessons were being received. So a teacher now knows that the student cares, the parent, cares, the coach cares, and that their message is being received. That, oh my goodness, this kid is actually getting it. Yeah. And if they're not getting it, if eight baseball players come to you and say, hey, we're

missing this, then the teacher immediately knows they've got to change the way they do it. Me as a coach, I know that if I run a practice and the eight players come to me and tell me, hey, coach, we didn't get this. Like, we need to spend more time on it. Or, hey, coach, we got it. I become a better coach. Like, I was smarter because they made me smarter. Yeah.

Like, every coach is upon how well their message is received. Like, I'm only good as a coach as the players who commit to doing the things that I asked them to do. And I have to be careful what I ask them to do because they will do it. And we talk about trust, right, that if I tell them, listen, if you want to get better shooting free throws, what do you do? You shoot more free throws. Same thing applies academically. Same thing applies socially. You want to be better at English?

Guess what? Spend an extra 30 minutes on it. Hey, coach, I don't have the time. Oh, yes, you do. Because I now know where the extra time can be found. And then as a coach, my responsibility, my responsibility is to take the time that I'm allotted and do the most successful thing for them, the best thing for them. And guess what?

If you're behind in an English class or a science cab or functions class, guess what, the 30 minutes that you spend on it additional is way more valuable than the 30 minutes you would spend doing whatever we were going to do that day. For life goals and life missions, it was way more, it was way different, way more important. And then the pride that happens when you have a collective group of 30 young men or young women who collectively agreed to achieve a greater thing for themselves and everybody else. And you go, wow. Okay. There's a method to the madness. There's a way to get things done.

And then that's what frustrates me in sports. Is that there is a way to get done, everything that needs to get done. It's just that people choose not to do it. They just choose not to do it. Look, I don't have time to work out an extra 30 minutes a day. Yeah, you do. Kobe Webster says you got time. You got time to get in 500 more shots than the guy and spend an extra two hours on the

academic stuff. It's all in what you choose. And I know that because you spend, I can see your activity on social media. I know that because it shows up on Saturday. I know that because it shows up on game night. The one thing you'll figure this, figure out is that the way the games are played now, everything is seen under the bright lights. Those are just, those are just pimples for bad diets. Like, right?

You go, oh, it's just, no. There's a reason why you have what you have. And it is important. And this is the thing. Now, I'll close it out with this and we'll go to break. But I want to set this up and I want you to ponder it for a second before we get into it. What is the priority for Division I Power 5 coach? What is the priority?

Is it winning? Money? Fundraising? The check writers, the fans, the parents. The student athlete, what is the priority? What should the priority be? Because that'll tell you who you are and what your programs are doing. We'll go over that.

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