Game Plan for Success
Recently, Salmon X was asked to comment on the subject of child-rearing on the off-chance that he sired a son:
"Well, I admit I would try my best to get the lil' feller interested in some kind of sport and if he decided football was gonna be his meal plan from 18-22, I would try my best to coach him through the years. I would try to pump up his confidence. But, at the same time, if he asked at age 8 what I think his chances of going pro some day are, I would have to be a realist with him.
I would tell him Hard work (ok, sometimes genes do, too) determines how successful you are at life and sports.
I think that is a fairly honest assessment...
The only catch to this is that they've proven with practice you can only drop 10% (I think) off your 40 yard dash time. So, if the youngster had modest 4.9 speed at tight end, with practice, could become a 4.7. We all know anybody can get big in the weight room, for the most part. Speed is what separates the great athletes from the good because for the most part you can only drop 10% off your 40 time no matter how much you practice.
That would be hard for an 8 year old to understand so I don't think I would mention it though...
Speed is just one piece of the pie, but it is a large piece (with whipped topping also).
Now, to kind of argue against what I just said. I'm convinced the reason Todd Collins went so far in the Pros was that regimen his dad (coach at Jefferson County when they were state champs all those years) put him through. It was some kind of regimen that he found out about from Russian weightlifters and athletes in the 1980s. When I walked on at UT, I witnessed Todd Collins on the vertical jump test. He had the highest standing verticle jump of anybody on the team. It was like 44-46 inches or something... and he ran about a 4.6 or 4.5 40 yard dash roughly--strong as an ox--(or a peppermint patty)..."
Words to live by from the Coach --- Coach X.
"Well, I admit I would try my best to get the lil' feller interested in some kind of sport and if he decided football was gonna be his meal plan from 18-22, I would try my best to coach him through the years. I would try to pump up his confidence. But, at the same time, if he asked at age 8 what I think his chances of going pro some day are, I would have to be a realist with him.
I would tell him Hard work (ok, sometimes genes do, too) determines how successful you are at life and sports.
I think that is a fairly honest assessment...
The only catch to this is that they've proven with practice you can only drop 10% (I think) off your 40 yard dash time. So, if the youngster had modest 4.9 speed at tight end, with practice, could become a 4.7. We all know anybody can get big in the weight room, for the most part. Speed is what separates the great athletes from the good because for the most part you can only drop 10% off your 40 time no matter how much you practice.
That would be hard for an 8 year old to understand so I don't think I would mention it though...
Speed is just one piece of the pie, but it is a large piece (with whipped topping also).
Now, to kind of argue against what I just said. I'm convinced the reason Todd Collins went so far in the Pros was that regimen his dad (coach at Jefferson County when they were state champs all those years) put him through. It was some kind of regimen that he found out about from Russian weightlifters and athletes in the 1980s. When I walked on at UT, I witnessed Todd Collins on the vertical jump test. He had the highest standing verticle jump of anybody on the team. It was like 44-46 inches or something... and he ran about a 4.6 or 4.5 40 yard dash roughly--strong as an ox--(or a peppermint patty)..."
Words to live by from the Coach --- Coach X.
posted by thchalm at 8:19 PM
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