The Turnaround: Scrimmage Eve
It’s the night before our first scrimmage. I am feeling nothing more than that. All I know is it’s time to hop on a bus and kick the season off. I am not chomping at the bit saying, time to…
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The Turnaround: It’s all about how you bounce back
You can’t have a great day every day. Even the best athletes in the world have an off day. It’s part of athletics. It’s part of the fabric that makes athletics so great. The key to having an off day…
The Turnaround by Jason Strunk: Week 2 Underway
by Jason Strunk Lubbock High School Head Football Coach Follow @WestTXCoach Respect the process. It’s what I have been saying all camp. If you respect the process, you will succeed. There is no time to complain or feel sorry for…
The Turnaround: Look back and forward
by Jason Strunk Lubbock High School Head Football Coach Follow @WestTXCoach First Week In Review It always amazes me how fast football goes by. You wait all off-season for it to get here. Once it’s here, it’s goes by in…
Texas High School Football Chat: Coaching Your Position
Here’s the latest Texas High School Football Chat from August 9. The questions were: Q1: What drills do you focus on the first four days without pads? (diagrams encouraged) Q2: What are your everyday drills for the entire season? (diagrams…
Welcome to “A New Era” by Oñate High School (New Mexico) Head Coach Scott Veliz
by Scott Veliz Oñate High School Head Football Coach Follow @Coach_Veliz I heard them all over the last year and a half — “Everything happens for a reason,” “God has a plan,” “Your time will come,” friends and family kept…
The Turnaround: Lubbock Westerners’ Fall Camp, Day 3
by Jason Strunk Lubbock High School Head Football Coach Follow @WestTXCoach Usually, the first Wednesday of camp is when you will see your team stumble a bit. A good first two days is usually followed up with a let down…
The Turnaround: Ready for Monday
by Jason Strunk Lubbock High School Head Football Coach Follow @WestTXCoach We are heading back to Lubbock today. Vacation is over as soon as I begin the trek back to the airport. It comes and goes fast, just like a…
The Turnaround: Matt Millen and Baseball
Jason Strunk Lubbock High School Head Football Coach Follow @WestTXCoach Right now, there is nothing better than waking up and walking 500 feet to the beach to watch the waves and write about some football. Need to somehow take the…
The Turnaround: Cliches and the NCAA
by Jason Strunk Lubbock High School Head Football Coach Follow @WestTXCoach It’s mid-week and our Laguna Beach vacation is at the halfway point. I’m trying to enjoy as much of it as I can. It goes by way too fast….