How To Build A Great Culture On Your Football Team!

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This National Champion, and D1 Strength Coach Will Show You How To Build a Winning Culture.
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Welcome to elite athletes TV. I'm Mike Pawlawski, former 11 year pro quarterback and quarterbacks coach here at www.eliteathletestv.com. I love the game of football because it is the only true team sport out there. Yes, there's a bunch of teams in different sports. But in football, if you don't have 11, guys playing like a team on every snap, then you're going to lose games.
You can bring in super talented guys, but if they are not bought in, they're never gonna play to their potential. You can have the greatest scheme in the world. But if guys aren't accountable, if you don't have a great culture in the football locker room, then all that scheme with all that talent is never going to reach its full potential. Building that culture is key. It happens in the weight room, it happens in the locker room. It happens on the training field. The truly great coaches are the ones who know how to bring it together.
Over the course of my five years of college and 11 years of professional football, I had exactly two coaches that knew how to build championship culture. And oddly enough, both those teams I went to bowl games in college, and I won a world championship on those teams. If you're a coach, or if you're a player, and you want to build great culture on your team, today, I'm talking to Brian Johnson, the head football strength coach at Cal who has been an SEC champion and a national champion in college football. Now he trains elite college athletes how to play with purpose.
Brian Johnson: The true building block of who I am started at LSU as a young player under a coach that demands a lot (Nick Saban) and makes sure that things are done a certain way. And that's kind of where they started from me as a as a player.
He had a real intensity to about the program, right?
He has a real intensity about everything. There are many things that have importance over other things, if he's doing it, and there's something that is going on in the building, it's all important. And the biggest thing is, everybody needs to be on the same page. Every piece of the puzzle has to be present at every time.
You got an SEC championship and a national championship, you talk about how that affects you as a person.
People spend lifetimes putting in so much and never really accomplishing what they were trying to do. Getting to the pinnacle, that experience for me, as rare as it is, to win a national championship was life changing. It requires a lot when you talk about sacrifice, when you talk about hard work, and you talk about dedication, when you talk about consistency. Adversity is the biggest thing, getting through adversity. Getting up out of the bed, walking into that building every day, and pushing yourself to get the best, whether it's in the classroom, in the weight room, whether it's in conditioning, those expectations were something that I had to get better at. And then watching how the older guys in the coaches maneuvered in that whole deal. That's what I remember most about that championship season. And that's what is really kind of helped mold me is understanding that everything is not going to be perfect, things aren't going to always go your way. But regardless of what it is, you have to put forth the effort on a daily basis towards that desired result. And it's not always going to go your way. But you have to continue to keep pushing and keep going. And you never know when it's going to come.
It's not just about the individual effort that you're putting in. It's about what everybody else is doing. If they're part of your team, it's also your responsibility to be accountable for them just as much as your responsibility to be accountable for yourself.
You can't take it personal. You can't get into your feelings when somebody is holding you accountable. I used to take coaching personal. Then a coach told me, don't be mad when a guy's coaching you, if he's coaching you, that's a good thing. Get mad when he stops coaching you. That means you won't be getting much playing time.
Football culture is more than just the surroundings of a program, right? It's not just the structure. It's all about the attitude, the mentality, the accountability, the responsibility of athletes, and a great coach knows how to build it. Build that a great culture on a football team. It's a fantastic thing to be a part of. And when you get that culture and that chemistry just right. It's an amazing locker room and it builds amazing teams which leaves lasting memories
For more of my interview with Brian Johnson go to www.bearinsider.com