When Coach Rob Robbins steps onto the field, it's not just the echo of a whistle that follows; it's the weight of a unique legacy, bridging athletic prowess with life-saving medical acumen. In our latest episode, we sit down with this former football player turned emergency medicine professional, as he shares a journey that's as much about the grit of the game as it is about safeguarding the players within it. His stories are a playbook of passion, safety, and the undeniable link between football and academic success.
Navigating the rough-and-tumble world of football, Coach Robbins doesn't shy away from the hard hits, particularly when it comes to discussing young athletes' safety. With a candid look at the neurological dangers lurking behind every tackle, listeners gain a front-row seat to the measures being taken to protect these players. It's a conversation that sheds light on the evolution of the sport's practices, tackling techniques, and the sobering statistics that have shifted the landscape of youth football. All the while, Coach Robbins emphasizes the role of coaches in championing a safer field for everyone.
But it's not all about the gridiron; the episode also underscores the importance of having a game plan for life beyond the cleats. Through personal anecdotes and heartfelt advice, Coach Robbins drives home the reality that, for many student-athletes, the end zone lies beyond professional sports. He highlights the significance of academics, offering guidance for leveraging athletic talent toward educational opportunities and career development. Our sit-down with Coach Robbins is a must-listen for those invested in the future of football and the young athletes who live and breathe the game.
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When Coach Rob Robbins steps onto the field, it's not just the echo of a whistle that follows; it's the weight of a unique legacy, bridging athletic prowess with life-saving medical acumen. In our latest episode, we sit down with this former football player turned emergency medicine professional, as he shares a journey that's as much about the grit of the game as it is about safeguarding the players within it. His stories are a playbook of passion, safety, and the undeniable link between football and academic success.
Navigating the rough-and-tumble world of football, Coach Robbins doesn't shy away from the hard hits, particularly when it comes to discussing young athletes' safety. With a candid look at the neurological dangers lurking behind every tackle, listeners gain a front-row seat to the measures being taken to protect these players. It's a conversation that sheds light on the evolution of the sport's practices, tackling techniques, and the sobering statistics that have shifted the landscape of youth football. All the while, Coach Robbins emphasizes the role of coaches in championing a safer field for everyone.
But it's not all about the gridiron; the episode also underscores the importance of having a game plan for life beyond the cleats. Through personal anecdotes and heartfelt advice, Coach Robbins drives home the reality that, for many student-athletes, the end zone lies beyond professional sports. He highlights the significance of academics, offering guidance for leveraging athletic talent toward educational opportunities and career development. Our sit-down with Coach Robbins is a must-listen for those invested in the future of football and the young athletes who live and breathe the game.
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Hey, team, come on in and make yourself comfortable. I'm so glad that you joined us today on our field and I'm glad that you are with us, because today I've got an amazing guest and I am really excited to have him here, and you guys are going to get a lot out of this. Whether you are a first time player, high school player or a well-seasoned NFL player or a culture apparent, this is a podcast you're going to want to listen to all the way through. This is going to answer a lot of your questions that are constantly brought up throughout this podcast and to us as coaches, and so you are going to get a lot out of this. So, without further ado, I'm going to read Coach Rob Robbins bio so you can understand who this coach is, because he's an amazing person. I personally have had an opportunity to work with him and again just working with him as a coach and knowing his expertise and who he is as a person, he's just amazing. So, without anything else, let's go on with this.
Speaker 1:So Coach Robbins played football for 17 years. His football career journey began at age five in Houston, texas. He walked away from football in 1986 and 1987 after being cut as a number three quarterback for the Houston Oilers. After declining the opportunity to play during the NFL players lockout, he was blessed to be coached by head coach Jerry Glanville, bill Walsh and quarterback coach Gary Huff For the next 25 years.
Speaker 1:After walking away from football, coach Robbins pursued his other passion for emergency medicine. In 2012, coach Robbins made the decision to suit or retire from emergency medicine and move back to Southern California. In 2012, coach Robbins was offered to accept a facility position at UCLA David Griffin School of Medicine, where he was currently presents 18 lectures at the University School of Medicine and Proctor Skill Labs at the David Griffin excuse me, geffen School of Medicine Center for Prehospital Care. After only six months of pseudo retirement, he came back to Southern Orange County, california. Coach Robbins was approached by a long-term football friend and was asked if he wanted to work with his son to quarterback and the rest is history. Over this timeframe, he has coached many seven-on-seven passing leagues. He's worked with his mentor, roger Takahashi.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Roger Takahashi.
Speaker 1:Awesome Coach, al Nichols, and they formed a seven-on-seventeen that won the OC County seven-on-seven champions in 2017. He has also worked with many quarterbacks that have gone on to D1 universities and Carnegie Mellon. He's also had the privilege to coach and train two years and number two ranked oh, forgive me, rob, okay, I'm going to go on.
Speaker 1:Just your you've gone on and on Just knowing him and telling you who he is as a person. I know personally that Coach Robbins has gone on to not only work with a lot of quarterbacks through high school, they've gone on to D1 colleges and many have gone on to the NFL, and it is a pleasure to have you here today. So thank you for being with us. The rest I'm going to let you kind of fill in.
Speaker 2:All right, no problem. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my pleasure. So one of the questions that we have had come up multiple times and I'm sure you've even heard in your career of coaching and as a doctor is the safety of football. You know how safe is football, especially a lot of parents that have got kids playing for the very first time or that are in high school, and I know this is a loaded question, but, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and turn that one over to you.
Speaker 2:Starting out at football, at signing up at four and a half and actually beginning the season age five in Houston, texas.
Speaker 2:I mean they, they start us out young there in the South.
Speaker 2:Football is a collision sport and as we progress through our careers we have to have that mindset that football and it's got to be coached or educated within our, within our youth football, that football does have an expiration point.
Speaker 2:There is going to become a time in your probably early to mid twenties that football is no longer an option.
Speaker 2:They're going to kind of pass the torch on to the younger generation and the caliber of players that we see today are just absolutely phenomenal and the amount of time that they're spending in health and nutrition, wellness and recovery from from, from from some significant injuries and mostly all minor injuries, is is is absolutely remarkable.
Speaker 2:But what we're realizing now, as we're getting better at at, at neuroimaging, cognitive testing and this other's neurological side of of of the consequences of football, we're finding that because of head injuries in particular, the subconcussive blows that these children who are now are and their adult years are suffering from, from, from pathology that could have been prevented along the way. And so that's in a in a in a reader digest view of. What I hope to accomplish in this podcast today is to help them understand the risks of football and how to better care for themselves and, if you're a parent, if you're a coach or even if you are a athlete playing multiple sports, to actually identify some of these signs that you could be on a path to, where later on in life, this could have adverse effects. So that's it in a nutshell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's, that's a lot to take in, especially for parents that have got first time players. And I know just coaching through the pop Warner, you know, circuit, that, a lot of these little guys, you know the Pee Wee, they're starting out very young again, age five, you know, and then they, they move on up excuse me, mighty, mighty, mighty, might would be the first one and then moving on up into Pee Wee and then junior varsity and then varsity. So, with that being said, what do you think is the best thing that could be done, not only as a parent but also for these coaches that are coaching these little guys, to keep them safe?
Speaker 2:Well, be informal, that is, an informed parent that could walk into the football meetings with these coaches and to ask these good questions Like what is your coaching philosophy, what type of tackling drills do you conduct? And it's really age dependent. So if we look at CT particular, boston University looked at 202 brains of football players that were donated to a school. 14 of these players were in high school and they found CTE in three of the 14. And these are just high school kids that their parents donated the brain. This same study discovered CTE, which is chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in 110 of 111 former NFL players. 48 of 53 college players brains actually showed signs of traumatic brain injury and the chronic traumatic encephalopathy. And if we all can look back at the New England Patriots tight end, aaron Hernandez, who was sentenced to prison and he ended up subsequently hanging himself in prison, he was 27 years old and on autopsy, on autopsy they found that he did have a chronic and traumatic encephalopathy and the pathologist determined that his brain was equivalent to a 46 year old. So this isn't something that is developed overnight. It has begun as soon as these children strap on the helmet.
Speaker 2:Would football be banned? Absolutely not, because it also teaches them. But we have to be aware that, especially with coaches, we have to be aware of the studies. It's great to have a good offensive play scheme, it's good to have a defensive play scheme, but it's also really important for coaches to understand the risks that they're putting on these children when they're conducting their drills.
Speaker 2:And if I had my way to begin to come full circle with the question is, I would create a practice plan that takes the head completely out of the game, which is what we're trying to do. A lot of youth programs are actually only wearing helmets one day per week, because what's that's going to teach them is, if you're in shoulder pads and lower pads but you're not wearing a helmet, the likelihood of you leading with your head is going to be minimal. And so an informed parent is going to ask these questions what type of drills do you conduct in your practices? And if you hear a coach coming out and say, yeah, well, you know, I like to do the Oklahoma drill, which is something, a drill that the NFL has absolutely opposed and has actually taken out of the whole, whole whole football program that this, this coach, is not a well informed coach and it's probably better that that parent pull that child from that particular team and play some someplace else.
Speaker 1:So it's interesting because I remember each year having to go through the, the certification through USA football, when I was a youth football, youth football coach, and every year they were changing the heads up, tackling they were, and I can tell that the NFL and some of the other programs are trying to incorporate a safer way for not only these little guys but also into high school, the safety of tackling and, like you said, taking the head out of the game.
Speaker 1:However, I do see that there is it's up to the coach, like you said. I've seen also coaches still go on to do it their way because it's either they've done they've always done or they have a different idea in regards to how football should be played or ran. And in from what I'm hearing is that those are the coaches and that is the times where you have got the most timeframe where someone could actually be injured and take those, take damage, and I mean football is football and there's always going to be a risk. However, it's sounding like that you can minimize some of these risks based on just the practice and the philosophy of the coaches.
Speaker 2:Correct Because on the neuroscience side of it, we have to understand that these children's brains are still developing. And it's not that I'm going to fall off and I'm going to smack my head on the ground and I'm going to have a coup country coup type of injury to where my brain bounced back and forth. It's not necessarily that, even though that that is a problem, but that's rare in comparison to these sub concussive blows. So we have the initial concussions, but what we worry about mostly in the long term sequelae or the long term pathological consequences of these injuries, is the fact that these second impact syndromes occur after the concussion because these kids are going back to football too soon and they shouldn't be. And these coaches, especially in the high school level, really have to understand that these second impact syndromes, or these sub concussive blows that these kids are experiencing, is what's causing these.
Speaker 2:If we look at a wiring system, the brain is the master, it's the executive of the body and all these wires are connecting to different parts of the brain for functioning. So, for example, the amygdala in the brain is, you know, for basic, just to be basic, is I look at somebody and I can. I can interpret that facial expression. If it's a threat to me, then the amygdala of the of the brain actually is the one that identifies. Oh God, this person looks really mad. Maybe I should avoid them that particular.
Speaker 2:So if we're disrupting this neuroplasticity, this development of the brain, these connections within the brain as we go along in our life, because this wire didn't connect right, that this higher functioning is not as good as it should be, and so we may make bad decisions, we may do health risk behaviors or participate in healthy health risk behaviors, or make very bad, bad decisions which could affect our health. And so you know it's all connected. And so that's my lecture to parents is the most informed. Parents are usually the best at distinguishing. If perhaps maybe the sport is not the right, or this coach may not be the right coach for my child, but again, they should participate in this sport because it teaches them so much more about life and navigating their way through life as a productive adult that I don't want to take that away because it did a lot for me. But we can do it safe.
Speaker 1:I agree, I agree. Now I know you had brought up a point in the beginning where you said there's an expiration date on football and you had shared with me a couple days ago, when you and I met, the percentages. Would you mind sharing those again, like the percentages from going from Pop Warner to NFL, how they kind of deplete as you go higher and higher. So what are the percentage? I know a lot of parents that have this grand illusion of them of their kid going on to the NFL, and I do. Some of them do it. Yeah, absolutely. But when you're working with 80 to 90 players every season, you know just watching the few that even get on the college, the number has got to be a heck of a lot smaller that go from college on to NFL. Do you have those numbers, coach Rob? Oh, coach Robbins, we still got you, coach Robbins. Coach Robbins, are you still there with me? You still with me? Well, okay, so, actually, well so, team, I think what, while we're trying to get coach Robbins back, I think he's got some valuable information in regards to you know, your players and your family. You know, and for us as coaches, we always take well, I should say, good coaches will take the safety of our players always into consideration. I don't care whether it's pop Warner or high school or even on to college. The safety of your players, as a coach, should be your number one priority, for multiple reasons. A lot of these kids you're going to have, you're going to have them for four years and during that four years you want to create strong players but also a strong team so they can go on and move on and do things.
Speaker 1:My and I've shared with you guys in the past. My son had played football since he was six and then he went on and he had a couple injuries through high school a broken collarbone and a couple other minor things. But what we decided in regards to ending his football career was the concussion, and you know it was not an easy decision because he had had this. That was his whole goal was to play football all the way into college and I think, as a parent putting aside being a coach, but as a parent you know you have to look at what is more important during that timeframe.
Speaker 1:You know football is a great sport. It teaches a lot of life skills, it teaches a lot of other things that you know how to work with people and and grow as individuals. However, I think there is a way to be able to safely safely do it. I'm going to check and see if, coach Robbins, have we got you back? Do we know if you're back yet? I'm kind of hanging on here because you've got such great, great insight and information. I'm hoping that we can hear you very soon.
Speaker 2:There we go. Oh, there we go, thank you Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I was filling in the gap. So what are the things I was just sharing? And I don't know if you had heard that I did have to make that choice to my own family, with my own son, that the last concussion he got ended his football career and we. It was a very difficult decision because he had, he always had this goal and this dream to go on and play football in college and maybe even into the NFL. And I mean he, he trained and did everything right. You know he was an exceptional athlete. I'm not saying that because of his mom, I'm going by. You know what he was offered and what was said to him. You know on the outside, but we had to make that choice and there there is that expiration date I think that people have to be aware of. While football is an amazing sport and you know it's great to be part of it, I think it takes a lot of courage and also a lot of knowledge to know when, when it's time to move on.
Speaker 2:Correct, and that's absolutely the take home message that, if we look at our players, I mean I could also relate. I have two ends of the spectrum with with two of my children One, my daughter, who had a fabulous basketball career. Looking at it, she actually had her fifth concussion and the and the college actually said no, you know, you can't play anymore. So so she was no longer able to qualify for scholarships. My son decided that, who is a phenomenal quarterback, decided that that football was just not for him. And he says that you know what? I'm not going to end up playing in the NFL, which is a part to your question. Prior to us being disconnected, he says I'm not going to play NFL. I'm not good enough to play in the NFL, so why am I going to risk the long-term effects of head injuries or pauportopedic injuries when I'm? You know, my goal is not to play In the NFL? Mike, my become a capitalist. So these are the decisions that that my children made for me. It was, I mean, it was a love of mine. I grew up playing football and so I was willing to accept the consequences, but we didn't know what we know today, and so I think we need to move forward with this knowledge that we do have, so we can make informed decisions as we're moving forward.
Speaker 2:College football now, as we transition into the professionals, historically has been financially motivated, obviously, but now these college players are actually reaping the benefits financially as well. So now the whole structure of the NCAA to where, like Texas University and some of the southern states are joining the SEC to get into this bandwagon. Because if you're offering $900,000 a year for your likeliness at the University of Alabama, for example, you're the likelihood of you getting recruited to Alabama is going to be minimal. So other universities want to get into this. They're also expanding the PAC 12 to get that ability to get more recruits. Because if I'm going to have the potential of selling my likeness by playing in Alabama, that means that Alabama is going to get all the good recruits because everybody's going to want to go to Alabama.
Speaker 2:So the point is is that if we want to play football, we have to stay healthy. But in order to get into a SEC program you have to stay healthy and you have to be that 1% that is able. That's going to be good enough. You have to dedicate your life to saying I am going to play at the University of Alabama. I'm going to be playing at the University of Southern California, some other universities Berkeley and Stanford and all these other schools. You got to dedicate your life to it and that is something that is truly the difference between. I really love football and I think it's a lot of fun when we go to college. I'm not versus. You know what? I'm going on to the NFL. I have a goal to play for the ex-NFL football team. So, whatever football team you decide to play on, but know that less than 1% of these kids are going to get into the NFL. I mean, that's just the bottom line. That's just the truth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's. I think that's something that's more of a reality and we don't really see that. And as the kids are going through their football years, you know, I think the most enlightening year that I discovered the change in football was how many of these high school guys, or how many of our high school kids because we did have a couple of females on our team but how many went on to play college and these were good players and, you know, not necessarily maybe D1, maybe a couple D1, but even to D2 and D3 players, but they just, they just don't move on. So I think that, and you remember those numbers, so the numbers once you go from high school to college and college to NFL, just diminish, you know, exponentially, based on yeah, so let me let me just so the other thing too.
Speaker 2:Let me just add this one thing as well is that I've had several high school players that went on to D1, but since our topic is the health and staying healthy and keeping yourself healthy so you can both succeed academically as well as athletically, these football programs are going to give these kids physicals, and I had two players that went D1's who did that to physicals, and so they were no longer eligible to play for that particular school. One of them had a cardiac arrhythmia problem that prevented him from ever playing a sport again. So the transition between high school to college is quite remarkable, and this is something that you're going to have to dedicate yourself to every day. That you know football is my passion. It's why I'm getting straight A's, Even though that we know as adults. You're going to succeed academically because at 22, 23, 24 years old, your football career is over. So use that academic scholarship you just got for playing football to carry on for the rest of your life and be successful outside of football.
Speaker 1:Now, and that's a good point, and I noticed that also a lot of these schools like you brought up Alabama earlier. You know your GPA has got to be up there. You can't just slide by and think that you're going to play at a D1 school with a bad GPA, so that really kind of goes hand in hand. You've got to be able to carry those grades and that should be, you know, one of the things that you take into consideration anyway when you're picking these colleges. You know, I guess I understand football is is exciting and it's fun, but on the other hand, that college degree and having that ability to take something you've learned during those four years and you know implement it into a career outside of football is is one of the most important things and I think a lot of people lose sight of that.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. If somebody's going to offer me $250,000 in scholarships at X University to play football, I mean that should be a motivation for every single high school football player, every single youth football player, to excel academically, to be in a position to be able to play football at that level and get their academics paid for a career after football paid for. And a lot of these kids all have to understand that this COVID stuff has really put a lot of these scholarships on hold. They've been deferred. You know there's a whole lot of going on. So again, you know, look at what your goals are. Be honest with yourself. Academics are number one. That's why they call you a student athlete and excel at that. Be really, really good. Well, I take it back. A great coach of mine says that Robbie, you don't have to be great, you just have to be good.
Speaker 1:So that's, you know, that's great insight. You know, I want to ask because I know, with your experience and your expertise, when, if you had to put it into and categorize it in order and outline, in regards to being a student athlete and playing football and going on and moving forward, what would you say the steps are in regards to moving on from high school into college? And then you know, we'll just stop right there because you know, obviously college and NFL is going to be another podcast. But looking at a lot of these people that are coming in, or these players that are coming in as freshmen and they've got four years ahead of them in high school and then, hopefully, with the hopes of getting into college. So I guess, looking at health, wise, academic, you know, and everything that they would need to prepare, not only just to get them maybe a scholarship to play football, but just to get them a scholarship into college, to be able to give them the best, best opportunity if football is the direction that they're going to go with.
Speaker 2:Academics are number one. You have to maintain your academics. Perhaps many, many teachers and perhaps even parents would probably argue or even disagree with me is that I'm not really sure about taking AP classes to. But in order to get an interest from a major university, I think that you're going to have to have a GPA higher than 4.0 in order to get into the Stanford's, to get into different universities on scholarship. But I think the reality is this you have to maintain a GPA that's high enough to academically qualify for.
Speaker 2:You know, one of my players is at Carnegie and he had a remarkable academic history. He scored incredibly high on his ACTs and he's since gone on. He started at Carnegie, but that's rare that you have this level of academics going into college. So his goal was academics. It wasn't football, because he had that realization that he probably never played professional football. So he chose a university that would better launch him into a career that he decided.
Speaker 2:So I think that, as a freshman coming in as a freshman, I think you really have to identify what your goals are. Am I going to play football and it's going to end at the end of my career? If that's the case, you need to decide on a university. That has to put you in a position upon graduation from college for your success to move forward in terms of your success as a professional. If your goal is to move into a professional level of football, for example, you have to maintain an academic that's going to get you into the school, get a high participation percentage at the combines Alabama, for example, stanford, and all these LSU, ohio State and all the. So what do I have to do in order to get on their radar?
Speaker 2:And football has to be your life. It has to be. It's just so competitive now and so to clean it up, if you just want a college to play for your academics why you play football? Because at the end of football you're done then that's something that you have to decide on. But you still have to maintain your athleticism and be good enough to be able to get that scholarship. Or if you're going to be football, that football has got to be your life throughout high school. And I'm not really sure and again, a lot of people would disagree with me, but you know multi sports. There's very few. You know Deion Sanders out there. There's very few that can play professional baseball and professional football there's very few. It's an exception to the rule. So football has to be your life, but you also have to maintain your academics in order to get into the NFL or the Canadian football league. So you know it's at ninth grade. At ninth grade, you need to decide what path is it that I want to take, moving forward.
Speaker 1:And that makes sense because you can also determine where you're going to land, too, based on your health, throughout that football. You know that football timeframe in high school because we've seen it. You know. We've seen it where you have a superstar that comes through and by the time they're a senior, you know, or even into their junior year because of the injuries or again, academics or some other reason. You know everything changes. It just changes too quickly. So while you have that drive and passion, you know you've got to have it to the point where you cannot let anything get in the way of taking away that exact goal of playing football, unless it kind of and I'm going to circle back around where it comes into, for example, your daughter, you know, my son where you have an injury, or especially head injuries, where you've got to make a different choice you have to, you know, based on what's best for you and your future, you know, for you health-wise.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Yeah, and that's a space that you need to stay in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's a smart. I think it's a smart and a realistic way of thinking because I think when you have other ideas or you have, especially when it comes to parents or coaches that are not on the same page with that this is the time where, if you're listening, as a player, you've got to step up and take responsibility for your own body, because you know how it's reacting. Only you know what happens. Nothing is more heartbreaking to me as a coach than to finish a game and have one of my players walk up to me and go man, I got my bell rung. I've been seeing stars the whole time and I feel dizzy and I don't feel good. And right then and there I should have been doing concussion protocol, but I didn't know because they never said anything.
Speaker 1:You know, and there's so much going on on that field and there's so many things happening, especially when you're responsible for calling plays and getting personnel and seeing. So, if you're listening as a player or as a parent, if you have any doubt, step out. I mean, that is something we have always tried to drill into our kids you know. When in doubt, pull them out, because you have to be responsible for your own body in what's happening, because I only know as a coach based on what you tell me, especially if I don't catch it. And we want the safety, we want you guys around for a very long time excelling, you know, even if you go on academically.
Speaker 1:And there's, there's there is a statement here, there's something here that you put in your bio that I think is amazing. You had stated that football does not build character. Instead, football reveals character, and I think that says a lot about the game of football and also it says a lot about you as a coach, too, because you see these people as human beings, you see them as you know players, and that is that is a that is, first and foremost, the most important thing I think has to be recognized on the field, whether you're a player or a coach. You want to elaborate a little bit more on on that statement.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know there's a lot of things that football teaches. And when we talk about revealing character, you know I'm trying to be correct here, and so you know football doesn't build character and we've taken so much away from what happens in our home and the parenting and how well we parents and how involved we are in parent, in parenting, how involved we are in identifying who our kids are hanging out with, who are their friends, who are their parents. So when we get out in the field and they're facing diversity, we're identifying their inherent character. We're not teaching them character, we're seeing how them respond to the adversities that are inherent to football. Nothing goes perfect. For example, the game of golf is a game of misses, and so the game of football. You have 22 people on the field, each with different skill levels. You know, in the high school level, each coach differently, each kind of doing their own thing. They're trying to play within a system. So you know we're trying to be consistent. So I'm just going to use this as an example. Is that the quarterback got sacked, instead of one person saying it's your fault, then the character is that we failed as an offensive lie and that's a character. We need to fix this as the unit and that is what something in life you can't go. What's that old saying about raising children? One person cannot raise a children. It takes a village to raise a children to raise children. So that's what I'm looking at in terms of it. It reveals their character and me as a coach who sees a child you know this is a blank canvas and I see this person, this child, who I can better help as a coach and as a teacher to help navigate them through adversity and how to develop their character. You go, we go, mentality about honor and loyalty and team and all that stuff that goes through it. So you have.
Speaker 2:A successful team doesn't necessarily represent skill level or coaching level, so let's bring it down to the very, very foundation. It's a character. They all came together, bought into the coaching learned. The three the cognitive, the effective and the psychomotor learning that was required came together and synchronized, choreographed this particular offensive or defensive play to a point of success, because there's 22 people on the field, not just one. So it takes the group, it's identified through character of how successful they're gonna be in the trenches. We have to come together and it's how we build it. That's how we identify as coaches to where we don't need individuals. We're not individual. We're gonna win a championship with a team and that's how building character is so important in youth football. So I'm not building character, I'm not developing the character, and by the end of the season we as coaches have a parameter of how we talk, that we help them navigate that road of character.
Speaker 1:That's great insight and I think I'm gonna stop right there. I'm sorry, forgive me. You would cut out for a second coach. I thought you were finished. I didn't mean to cut you off.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I'm good. No, no, that's fine.
Speaker 1:So, team, I hope you guys got a lot out of this. I really wanna thank you for your time and your insight. Coach Robbins is very valuable information. Thank you so much, so we're gonna move on guys.
Speaker 1:I want you guys to join us again next week. Coach Robbins, can I get you to come back, cause you've got some other insight that I would like to share with everybody, because we've got a lot more here to cover and I think this is only the beginning, so I hope I can get you back at some point again.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, just let me know.
Speaker 1:All right. So, team, we will see you next week Again. If you wanna reach out to us, if you keep those questions coming, I know a lot of you parents have got quite a few. It's football season and that's usually when everything starts to transpire. We'll try to cover as much as we can during our podcast and I'll go ahead and keep putting up information onto our Facebook page, and you can reach me anytime. I'm Coach Mickey. You are on first downs to touchdowns. We will see you, guys, soon. Stay strong, start strong, finish strong, guys. We will talk soon. Okay, bye.