There is much more to Kirby Smart's leadership than his pre-game speech — and in actuality, it had little or nothing to do with his team's dominant performance against TCU.
"Hard work is important. So are play and nonproductivity. My worth is tied not to my productivity but to my existence. I am worthy of rest."
"At some point, you have to have the courage to just jump right in."
The way to make people feel extraordinary is to leave them better than you found them.
When it's all said and done, it won't be about the titles we held or the accolades we garnered.
Being on the same page is quite different than having organizational alignment.
As coaches, we know what we value, what really determines winning or losing, what allows us to get at least a little bit of sleep at night.
There are typically four benefits of acknowledging a mistake to our teams.
"You don't really know who you are until you go through something that exposes who you are."
For this week's Saturday Blueprint, we continued our conversation with Paul Assaiante, the winningest coach in NCAA history.
Winning at anything is the accumulation of slow, incremental progress made over a long period of time.
When a team knows the leader is willing to admit mistakes, then its members will acknowledge their own.
