27 Jul
2009

Russ Huesman, coach of UTC, was a major speaker at the NCAA Youth Day in Chattanooga this last weekend. And he told the kids what he expects from a new recruit in college football. And he was very serious about it: he told them that they have to work hard in high school. If they were lazy and didn’t do homework or anything else, he and his coaches would simply leave without talking to the student. The same thing if the student talked back to his parents or anything like that. And they can’t be lazy and play video games all day. It was a talk about character and hard work when you’re in school. If all coaches in the NCAA did this, we would have a great crop of new players every year and I’ll bet they’d be more understandable during postgame press conferences.