LESSONS TAUGHT AND LESSONS LEARNED
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Jim Bob Moffett-Lesson Learned
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On January 8, 2021, Jim Bob Moffett, one of the most fascinating and successful players in Longhorn Sports’ History, passed away. But the lessons he and many others learned from Coach Royal live on. DKR’s statement “luck is when preparation meets opportunity” set the tone for Jim Bob’s breath-taking success in the business world. Moffett discovered that The harder he prepared, the luckier he got. It is no accident that luck follows those who try the hardest.
Billy Graham says about Coaches:
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Jim Bob is a good example of a coach’s importance in a young impressionable athlete’s life. Coach’s construct symbolic bridges formed from discipline, team spirit, passion, and hard work. All will become valuable tools of the trade for success as adults.
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A coach’s influence is profound, so over the next two months, this newsletter will share coaches and their players’ interactions.
The article titled “DKR, the Bridge Builder” is a testimonial to a Coaches’ importance in bridge building for young athletes. The link to the site is :
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/dkr-the-bridge-builder-1
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A Lesson Taught that is best forgotten.
In 1992 football Coach Jackie Sherrill had his team view a bull castration before playing Texas. The MSU administration condemned this technique of “motivation,” and Sherrill apologizes to the Longhorn nation.
Sherrill said the castration served two purposes.
″One is educational. That’s probably the biggest reason,″ he said.
The other was motivating his team. Asked how a bull’s castration would motivate his players, he said, ″That’s everybody’s different perception.″
Mississippi State won 28-10
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Swimming Coach Tex Robertson- Lessons Taught
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Tex Robertson had all the assets needed for success. He was a risk-taker with personality, energy, creativity, political savvy, contacts, recruiting techniques, promotion, discipline, a strong will, and a business mind. His drive to succeed would forever change the swimming landscape at Texas.
Tex needed all of these qualities as the Longhorn Head swim coach. His adventure starts as the Longhorn swimming team’s head coach with no budget, no scholarships, and no salary and ends with the Horns as a collegiate swimming powerhouse.
In 1968 Tex Robertson created WETS (Working Exes, For Texas Swimming). A progressive, proactive, Longhorn brand-building, forward-thinking organization. The organization offers a forum for all former Texas swimmers, divers, coaches, and fans to stay connected. Over the last 5 decades, WETS has successfully honored the past, promoted the present, and inspired future Longhorn swimmers.
The organization is a brand builder for Texas, confirming to all young high school swimmers that what starts at Texas will change their lives.
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Huston Street- Lessons learned
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Huston Street shares the realities of baseball as told to him by his father, James Street. “I remember the crowd in that final game in Austin in 2002, with the Houston fans chanting and our fans yelling. And when we won it, I remember my dad, and what he told me that day ….. “
James says to Huston, “Good job, Bubba.” “‘Now you have to go out and do it again.'”
Coach Garrido’s lesson Taught.
Huston Street says, “It is one of the most profound moments of my entire career, and life for that matter. He walked in (Augie), looked us all in the eye, stood there with a small moment of pause, and said this: ‘The world treats winners differently than it does losers.’ And then he walked out. It was the most spot-on sentence, which is true.”
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Sheretta Jones Lessons Learned
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Texas track star Sheretta Jones learned a valuable life lesson watching Coach Kearney diligently work her way back to independence after being involved in a tragic December car accident. That crash took the lives of two of the five passengers in the car, and Kearney faced years of rehabilitation from a spinal injury and paralysis.” Sheretta says”
“Since her accident, we’ve all been behind her in her recovery, but for her to be as emotionally and physically stable as she is, coming back after what she’s been through, it just makes us want to aspire to different, or higher, heights. When someone has gone through something like that, you can’t complain about what you’re going through because someone else is feeling worse than you are, every day.”
Link to Beverly Kearney is at
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/1993-2015-primarilykearney
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Sheretta Jones running the hurdles
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Beverly Kearney Recovering
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Augie Garrido – Lessons Taught
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Augie Garrido says, “Pressure is a choice,” and by extension, so is fear.
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In 1959 a dejected Fresno State player left the college world series field and wept. Augie Garrido had overthrown a ball from the outfield that allowed the winning run to cross home plate. It was an ominous start for the best collegiate baseball coach of all time.
The coach said, “Fear will strike; it always does; the emotion takes you out of the moment and into your own head.” The only way for a baseball player to stop a downward spiral is to quit pressing and return to playing the game. “Confidence overcomes fear, but confidence is often fleeting while fear hangs on.” The best way to control fear is to clear your head. Augie says we tell players to “get outside of your head because that is where the competition is.”
To read more about how Augie used the mental game to win, click on
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/augie-1997-2016
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