The TRUTH About Recruiting & Strength/Conditioning | Clay HS Coach Dustin Whitlock

In this Episode Coach Whitlock talks about Holding different Roles, the difference between in season and offseason Lifts, some of best Lineman he’s coached, and Much More…

0:00 - Introduction

0:28 - Having Multiple Roles

2:21 - Tweaking Strength program

4:43 - Lift that translate to the field for OL

8:05 - Off-Season lifts vs In-Season lifts

9:55 - Nutrition

12:21 - Questions College Coaches ask

14:12 - Selling undersized OL

15:55 - Committing vs Decommitting

18:30 - OL Identity

20:19 - Best OL he's Coached

22:49 - OL Role in Strong Offense

23:59 - Rapid Fire

25:29 - Last Message

26:47 - DOWNLOAD, RATE & REVIEW

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Transcript

Introduction

Coach Moss 0:00

Year one at Clay High School, Offensive Line Coach, recruiting coordinator, strength and conditioning coach. He didn't inherit a machine. He's building one. From freshmen to seniors, from the weight room to Sighning Day, Green Cove Springs, Clay County, the Blue Devils. If you are big at Clay, if you are a parent wondering why your 6'1 kid has no offers, this is the man you need to know. Clay High Triple Threat. Coach Dustin Whitlock. Welcome to Behind the Whistle 90 4.

Coach Whitlock 0:25

Hey, I appreciate you having me, man. Thank you.

Having Multiple Roles

Coach Moss 0:28

No problem. So, Coach, can you just talk about how it is managing those three jobs, being the strength coach, the offensive line coach, and a recruiting coordinator?

Coach Whitlock 0:37

Uh, yeah, it's you know, I I like to wear many hats. I like to keep myself busy. I'm also the boys' weightlifting coach, and I'm the one of the assistant coaches for the girls' soccer team. I actually grew up playing soccer, and uh, so that was really my first love playing sports-wise. My family was involved in football, so I kind of jumped into football after that and end up playing collegiately, but other than that, uh it's tough, but I enjoy it being busy. I get to take kids on the recruiting visits. The strength and conditioning is a passion of mine. You know, I'm USA weightlifter certified, so uh that that's fun to have. I enjoy going to different meets. I've sent a couple weightlifters off to uh college for weightlifting. I've sent many kids off for football. Offensive line, you know, when I first started coaching it, I really didn't enjoy it because I thought it was just the the guys that couldn't do anything else, the fat guys that couldn't do anything else. They sent to the offensive line or the skinny kids that ran a 6'7 in the 40, and you know, they couldn't find them nothing else to do. They teach them to snap the football and make them a center so they could just help on a double team every play. But uh the longer I've coached offensive line, the more important I know it is. And you know, I've been an OC before and done this and that, so it really opens your eyes when you start calling the plays how important the offensive line is, because if they're not uh coached well up front, your offense doesn't do anything. It doesn't matter how good the guys are behind it. So uh yeah, I always call my guys the fat guys, the hogs, mid skill, trench gang. I you know, I always try to make it fun for the boys, and you know, I make sure they know how important they are to me and how important they are to the team. So yeah, I mean, it's it's a lot, but I enjoy doing it.

Tweaking Strength program

Coach Moss 2:21

Yes, sir. So just talking from the strength standpoint, when you walked when you first walked into the weight room or when you first got to Clay, what was one big thing that you felt like that that needed to change as far as the strength and conditioning aspect?

Coach Whitlock 2:34

Honestly, man, not a lot that needed to change. We had a fantastic strength and conditioning coach before I got there. Name's Craig Nossi, and he's still doing it, helps me with it. Okay. Uh our head our head coach, Coach Gurky, uh, hired me last year, and he ran the weight room last summer and asked me uh this year if I would take it over. You know, I jumped at the opportunity. And uh, like I said, I helped Coach Nossi. I was the assistant boys weight lift ing coach last year, and he asked me if I would want to take it over. I said absolutely. But I I took it, I took it over under the condition that he would stay on and help me. So we kind of just flipped positions. But uh, you know, I I respect Coach Gnossi tremendously. If I have any questions about anything in the weight room, he's always the first guy I text. Uh I have a buddy at St. Augustine High School, Joey Lippo's probably one of the best weightlifted coaches in the state, in my opinion. Uh I'll I'll send some ideas to him, you know, say see what you see what he thinks about it. But man, you know, uh me and Coach Nassi were talking about. We did Zercher squats the other day, and I have videos up on my Twitter of our sophomore running back doing it, three doing 315 on the Zercher squat for six. And uh right after the workout, I call a man-maker lifts, and you know, that that really finds out if you're a man or not, if you can do Zercher squats. And uh I knocked Coach Nassi. We were talking afterward, he goes, Man, that's one of the best workouts we've had since I've been here. You know, some of the boys, you know, that want to quit or kind of will cheat it, you know, we'll call them out on it, but I'm standing right there behind some of the guys and just encouraging them, you know, hyping them up. I I'm a big hype guy, you know, in the weight room. I'm loud. Uh they know the standard that I hold. We're all on the whistle, and you know, if things don't go the right way, it's you know, we have 25 push-ups, so it's not just the person that messed up, it's the whole room. So I I thank the person that's the reason we're doing push-ups, I thank them for the opportunity to get better, and we all get in push-up position and knock out our push-ups. So uh not a lot needed, and that was Coach Nossy. He held them to the same standard, and you know, if not a lot needed to change. It just we just needed, I I guess, just needed more of it. So I would say, you know, that just that.

Lift that translate to the field for OL

Coach Moss 4:43

Okay. And just speaking like from the offensive line perspective, what do you think is big as far as as part of the weight room? What lifts do you think is most important that'll help them translate to the field?

Coach Whitlock 4:56

You know, I'm a I'm a big squat guy. Any variation of the squat, uh, I love. I I really love Zercher squats. Being a weightlifting coach, I love the front squat. Uh, you know, I love the back squat. Also, you know, a staple that's been in it for years. You know, I I uh I like a lot of the BFS, the old bigger, faster, stronger things that I I did when I was in school. And I kind of looked into that as well when I started designing, you know. My I try to design, I try to, you know, pick apart and self-scout my programming as often as I can, at least on a yearly basis. And, you know, because if uh if you're not, you know, if you're not evolving, you're dying. So I just want to make sure, you know, I'm staying up to date with all that needs to be done. And I think, you know, also a real integral part is cleans. You know, any type of cleans, any Olympic movement, really. I'm also a big fan of the snatch. The more, you know, the more I see it. And even if it's for just from a power snatch from the hang position, it's an explosive movement that, you know, the big offensive linemen need to do. My starting center, he uh went to state this year. He actually got seventh at the state championship.

Coach Moss 6:03

Oh, wow.

Coach Whitlock 6:04

And uh he he I think he bench pressed 270. He clean and jerked 300 pounds, and he snatched 225 pounds.

Coach Moss 6:13

Okay.

Coach Whitlock 6:13

So I mean, this, you know, I I do a lot of the Olympic movements with those guys, and we've introduced the power snatch to the rest of the team this year. And you know, so I think any of the Olympic lifts are good for everything, not just for football players, but especially for linemen. They're awesome. And, you know, anything that's gonna get you some explosion. I'm not a huge fan of the straight bar deadlift in football, just because, you know, I always tell them they do the scared cat back, you know, with a rounded back. And uh that's that's hard to that's hard to get out of kids. Because, you know, I'm a big, we're not ego lifting when I'm in there. I preach it to our younger kids. I usually don't have to preach it to the older guys too much because they kind of know their limitations. But uh the young kids, they just want to see who the top dog is. They don't care what their form looks like as long as they can stand up with it. And I I kind of don't let them do that. And that's it, ego lifting gets you 25 push-ups, also. So you know. And I I mess with them and you know, tell them in the weight room there's two ways to do things. There's my way and the wrong way. And that's not me being trying to be on an ego trip or anything. I just I started lifting weights when I was 13, so I'm 33 now, 20 years in it. I was an exercise science major. I uh was one of the strongest guys on my football team in college. Uh so I mean, I I only got to play college football because I was so strong in the weight room because all the work I did. And, you know, because I always I always tell them, I don't lie to them. Like, listen, I a lot of you guys in here have more talent in your pinky toe than I've had in my whole body at any point in my life. But but you know, somebody would have to bleed to beat me.

Coach Moss 7:50

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 7:51

But uh, and I kind of preach that to them in the weight room. The weight doesn't care, you know, tall, short, big, fat, anything. I don't care about you. It's what weighs 45 pounds for him is gonna weigh 45 pounds for you.

Coach Moss 8:01

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 8:02

And that that's kind of how I feel about it.

Coach Moss 8:04

So

Off-Season lifts vs In-Season lifts

Coach Moss 8:05

what's and you so in the way that you kind of attack y'all weight program, how how how differently is the is how you lift in the off-season versus how you lift in season, like during the season?

Coach Whitlock 8:17

So in season, it's more hypertro uh hypertrophy workouts. So it's more, you know, I want to go uh I'll go higher reps, lower weights, just to kind of maintain as much as we can. Because I I'm I'm of the philosophy. I don't want to hit stuff to move it, I want to hit something and break it.

Coach Moss 8:33

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 8:34

So you know, I want to I want to get as strong as we can in the off-season and in the regular season, it's hard to get stronger. It's possible, but it's hard. Because you know, you have to you're fighting with fatigue, you're fighting with muscle breakdown, with practice, you have to condition more with the games, but you're still lifting, you're just not lifting as intensely. So, you know, uh I we go higher, we try to stick to a higher rep range during our season with lower weights just to try to maintain what we can. And uh off season, you know, next week we're gonna break into R four by five. And just so you know, but and we're gonna increase up to around 78 to 80 percent of their one rep max.

Coach Moss 9:14

Okay.

Coach Whitlock 9:15

And we'll be we'll be working from that, you know, and we want to just move big weight over the summer. So with us moving the bigger weight, our auxiliary lifts will uh titrate back a little bit or titrate back a little bit, so we'll knock them down a little bit, just so I'm not killing them all the way because we still have to run and condition them. And you know, they're not machines, they're high school boys. Some of them, you know, are probably staying up. If we get if we start at eight, they probably went to sleep at three playing Fortnite or Call of Duty or whatever they're playing, or falling asleep on FaceTime with their girlfriend, you know, all that stuff that high school boys do. So it's uh it's just kind of knowing how what they can do and trying to push them to their limit.

Nutrition

Coach Moss 9:55

Yes, sir. So um, one of the last things as far as on the weightlifting front, I want to ask you is so you know nowadays kids they want to eat junk food, eat takis, eat all these hot foods. Like, how do you kind of try to push them or convince them how to eat the right nutritional stuff going into their bodies?

Coach Whitlock 10:13

But you know, I always tell them when I was in a at Palatka, if anybody's familiar with Palatka High School, when you pull out of Palatka, there's a there used to be a stop sign when I was in school, there's a stop light there now. On the left, on the left is a Taco Bell, and if you keep driving straight, you drive straight into a Burger King. So as a high school boy, you know, it's it's tough to drive past both of those. You're dying, you're hot, you're like, man, I just want to go sit with my boys, get a beefy five-layer burrito and a Baja Blast and just chill for a second. So we did that more often than I'd like to think. But uh it's I have a we have a really good wrestling coach and wrestling program at our school, James Reap is his name, and he is pre- he preaches it a lot as well. Like, we we tell him, like, guys, you can go to Walmart and get a you know, anywhere from five to eight dollar rotisserie chicken, took two cups of two cups of rice and eat on that for a week. And I I uh I'm I'm a chicken guy. I I love you know, grilled chicken, rotisserie chicken, it air fryer, like I try not to do any, you know, any fried, even though you know I'm I'm a I'm a southern boy, a palatka boy, you know. I've raised up eating all the southern food, the fried pork chops, the fried, all that stuff. Lord knows I love fried chicken, but you know, getting up in age, they don't love you back. So I I always I always try to tell them, you know, if you can stay, you know, to the grill, stay off of non-processed foods. So, you know, like the takis. I have a nephew that's obsessed with them. Like the takis, stay away from all that stuff. If you can even just a peanut butter and jelly, uh go home and I tell them I lived off of fried egg sandwiches when I was good when I was playing football in high school. I'd I'd go wake up, make me one, and make me another one when I got home. Just because I didn't like peanut butter and jelly at that time. So that's that's kind of that's kind of what we preach, is just you know, putting good stuff into your body, not just going and going and sitting at McDonald's or drinking a frappe. Instead of drinking that frappe, get a power rade.

Coach Moss 12:13

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 12:14

It's still not the best for you, but you know, get a power rade. Drink the frappe on the weekend when you don't have to lift the next day.

Coach Moss 12:20

Yes, sir.

Questions College Coaches ask

Coach Moss 12:21

So now shifting more to your time as as a recruiting coordinator. So when college coaches call call you, what's probably one of the first things they ask you about about your player?

Coach Whitlock 12:33

So, you know, me and uh I help our head coach, Coach Gurky with it. He talks to a lot of the, you know, we have a couple guys that are getting looks at, you know, big, you know, power 4 group of five schools, and he usually fields those. So I'm usually working with like, you know, FCS down schools, you know, and usually they call that they you know come out there and talk to us. They're like, Coach, you know, what's he like off the field? What's his work ethic like? And once once they find out, you know, I'm with them in the weight room or they play another sport, that's you know, they want to ask, like, how is he as a person, not just as a football player? Yeah, you know, what is what is he like at walking the halls of the school? What is he like in the weight room? And I I tell them, I'm like, listen, I won't lie to a coach for you, because somewhere down the road, if that coach is still at that school or he's at another school, they're gonna come back and recruit a kid that is being coached by us, and they're gonna be like, Well, you said this about such and such. And he ended up having a terrible work ethic. And you know, I they kind of just they want to know more about football. They like the film will tell you what they can do. They always say the film will tell us what we need to know. I even had a coach say, Coach, what do you think he could play for us? Because I coached a kid that was on one of his previous teams. He was at Montana State and he ended up going to a different school. We count we were talking. I actually happened to be wearing a Montana State hoodie when he came in, and one of one of his, one of my players started at corner for him for two years.

Coach Moss 13:57

Oh, wow.

Coach Whitlock 13:57

So he kind he he kind of just you know asked me, you know, coach, what can we do this? You know, what can he do? Could he play here? And, you know, just questions like that. And I the more honest you're with with them that you are with them, the more I feel like they come back, you know, value your opinion.

Selling undersized OL

Coach Moss 14:12

Yes, sir. So, coach, let's just say you got a uh offensive linemen. He's about 6'1, 265, but he plays like a dog and a lot bigger. How do you kind of sell him to coaches when you know most coaches they want 6'4, 6'5 offensive linemen

Coach Whitlock 14:28

You know, you really honestly just have to find that one that wants to take a you know, wants to take a chance on him.

Coach Moss 14:34

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 14:34

I always use like uh the the kid from uh uh Coastal Carolina, I believe his name's Willie Lankin, the center. Or yeah, or you know, some I believe it was. And he's like 5'11.

Coach Moss 14:47

Oh wow.

Coach Whitlock 14:47

And and started on a he graduated a couple years ago, but he started on a top 15 program three years in a row. And that's kind of uh what I always and it's if the coaches don't want them, you're not selling your kid on them. And I I I just I can't stress that enough. Like you can I've talked to schools till I was blue in the face about kids, and they're just like, hey coach, they just don't fit the measurable. And you know, you're gonna run into that, and I tell them, you know, I always try to tell the boys, don't get discouraged. We'll find another school. If it, you know, if you're dead set on an FCS and they don't want you, if all you're done with FCS, let's go D2. Let's find a high-powered D2 that wants you. You know, let's reach out to a Valdosta State, a Ferris State, schools like that, even a Harding, like schools like that that want tough-nosed guys that just weren't tall enough. Because eventually you're gonna get to that place, and if you're a real dog, you're gonna walk in and dominate.

Coach Moss 15:43

Definitely.

Coach Whitlock 15:44

And how the portal is right now, once you dominate for a year or two, you hit you're in the portal and you're going D1. Group of five, power four, somewhere in there.

Coach Moss 15:54

Yes,

Committing vs Decommitting

Coach Moss 15:55

sir. So the last question I got on this topic, so coach, let's say if you got a kid, he he's committed to a D2 or or FCS school, but in December, like right before he's getting ready to sign, he gets an offer from a group of six school. Like, do you tell him to wait, or how do you kind of give him advice as far as w what he should do?

Coach Whitlock 16:15

I always try to err on, you know, because I'm a dad, I got two sons, and I like to think one day I'm gonna be in this position. I I always try to err on, you know, what feels like home to you. I always I I ask kids like that, I'm like, hey, if you've gone on a visit, what'd it feel like? Oh, coach, I don't know. It was weird, you know, it was different, blah, blah, blah. I, you know, I'm like, if it doesn't feel like home, then it's not.

Coach Moss 16:39

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 16:40

And I always tell them that. Like, and I I played for I played it for an NAIA school, and you know, we we don't have official visits. You kind of just like, hey coach, I just want to come see the campus. You just show up.

Coach Moss 16:51

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 16:52

But I mean, I I just tell them like, man, you know, I I'm big in my faith. So you know, I'm like, you need to pray about it. You need to go home, you need to talk to your parents about it. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to go see it. If they want you now, they're gonna want you when it's time for signing day in February. But if it's gonna jeopardize your opportunity with the other school, you need to make they you need to make it known to the other school, like, hey, this is what happened, blah, blah, blah. And they're not gonna like that sometimes.

Coach Moss 17:22

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 17:23

And that's why, you know, I say, if a kid's really committed to this spot, if they're so if if a kid, I'm looking at a Mercer poster on my wall. So if you're if a kid's committed to Mercer and a a FCS school, you know, we'll say Old Dominion or uh a group group of six school, Old Dominion offers you. Well, do you want to go that far up north, or are you absolutely in love with Macon Georgia and you want to go play for Mercer and be a bear? Yeah, if the kid tells me I love Mercer, coach, I love the campus, I love everything they stand for, then I even I will look them dead in the eye and say, Why are we even having this conversation then? And I mean, because that's like like a lot of it's just self-doubt, and I I don't try to, you know, sway them one way or the other. I just want them to be up because it's them that has to do it for four years, not me, not anybody else, not their parents. They're the one that's gotta be happy where they are for four years.

Coach Moss 18:21

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 18:21

And that's kind of that's kind of what I do. I kind of try to leave the ball in their court. I guide them as much as possible, but I never try to make a decision for them.

OL Identity

Coach Moss 18:30

That makes perfect sense. So now we're gonna kind of ship, so now we're gonna transition to you being offensive line coach. So what's the identity of your offensive line?

Coach Whitlock 18:42

So, you know, we uh right now we have three offensive line coaches. So I'm the offensive line coach. We have coach, we have Coach Bland we brought in to be our JV and freshman offensive line coach. And we have uh a coach named Alex Adams. He's a longtime offensive line coach, longtime football coach that I respect greatly. And he coaches our tight ends and fullbacks or our HBACKS, if we call him. So it's really all three of us together at all times. And you know, we tried to establish the, you know, I'm a I'm like a 5'10, 5'11 fullback. I weighed all of 230 pounds playing in college. So I was essentially an undersized fullback. But, you know, I I I was I run through a brick wall. I didn't care. I was just I had because I had to be that way. Because I if I wasn't, I wouldn't have been able to play.

Coach Moss 19:30

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 19:31

So, you know, I always tell my kids, you know, I want you to be tough as possible. Uh I want you to outwork everybody. We're I say, and we're still doing indie. Everybody's getting water. I'm like, we're going to get as much work as we possibly can because we have to. Because we're going to get all the blame and we're not going to get any of the credit.

Coach Moss 19:47

Exactly.

Coach Whitlock 19:48

So that's what I always tell them. And you know, it is tough at times, you know, when I when I hear from the from the crowd, hey, we got to block somebody when the running back missed the pickup, the pickup on the BLITZING linebacker and pass pro. I can't turn around and be like, hey, I just want you to know it's the running back that missed that, not the offensive line. And that's kind of what it is. And it's just, you know, I want them to be tough, and I always tell them to, you know, forget the outside noise. It doesn't matter. You only you just need to hear what we're telling you to do.

Best OL he's Coached

Coach Moss 20:19

Yeah, exactly. So, coach, um, who's probably in your time that at um at Clay and then the other stops you may have been at, who's probably that you could say was the best offensive line that you alignment that you coached?

Coach Whitlock 20:34

The best offensive lineman that I coached. That's tough.

Coach Moss 20:39

Uh oh, you can name a couple if it's more than one.

Coach Whitlock 20:42

Do I have to have coached them? Could I have coached a different position and they were just on the team?

Coach Moss 20:47

Yeah.

Coach Whitlock 20:48

Okay, so fun fact, actually. I was at Trinity Catholic in Ocala the year that they in 2023, we actually ended up as the state runner-up in class 1S.

Coach Moss 20:59

Okay.

Coach Whitlock 21:00

On that team, we had three uh Division I offensive linemen. We had Janari Carr, who is now at the University of Florida playing guard.

Coach Moss 21:09

Oh, wow.

Coach Whitlock 21:10

And he played uh guard for us. He played tackle for us. We have Gee Gordon, who is now at USF playing, and we have Dominic Johnson, who is at Toledo playing. And I I coached D-line at the time, so you can just imagine me trying to coach that. But thankfully, on my D-line, I had uh Amani Armstrong, who actually just finished his career at Cardinal Mooney. He won a state championship last year. He is going to FAU, I believe. And I had Zach Johnson, who was Dom Johnson's younger brother. He is actually at Toledo with his brother Dom playing. So I had uh, so those two problem, those three were good ones. I also coached a kid named Nolan Fairclaw. He was a tackle for me at Palaka. He now plays center for Webber down in uh Lake Wales, or down in Babson Park, excuse me. me and uh aside from him I'd probably say one that is just could be as good as he wants to be but sometimes you know I have to I have to jump on his jump on him a little bit because he doesn't want to always be as good as he possibly is my current center right now and his name's Tony Sayud I moved I had him playing right tackle and right guard last year at points until finally I you know I told him I said buddy you're not getting recruited at any either one of them spots you're not tall enough so I I moved him to center and he's taken to it very well and he can dominate people every single play he just doesn't choose to so you know he's that's something he does he needs to work on and he has made leaps and bounds during that during the spring because the spring game is actually his first game center.

Coach Moss 22:48

Oh wow

OL Role in Strong Offense

Coach Moss 22:49

so coach um the last thing I got as far as from the offensive line standpoint so what do you how did what do you think your offensive line has to do for your for the offense to be successful and reach the goals that y'all have for it them this year.

Coach Whitlock 23:04

Well we definitely got to block I say that much we uh we just got to execute we have you know we can't make little mistakes up front because one little mistake up front turns into a big mistake behind it. Yeah so we you know I'm good on communication we have calls that we make and you know so you know I always tell them as soon as we get up to the line Tony the first thing he says is calls calls calls and he's yelling at every time I always make sure you know we're communicating I always tell them you can never overcommunicate just make sure you're always talking make sure everybody next to you uh knows what he's doing make sure you know what you're doing and if you don't be like hey you need to point hit the guy next to you on the leg but hey what do I got as long as we're getting done what we need to get done I think we'll I think we can be successful. We have a fantastic running back great quarterback great rest threats on the outside and uh we just gotta make sure we're doing our job up front.

Coach Moss 23:58

Yes

Rapid Fire

Coach Moss 23:59

sir so the last section I got for you is a rapid fire I'm just gonna give you some questions you kind of just fire your answers off at me. Okay. So height or feet what gets a clay kid recruited what'd you say height or what? Feet. What do you think gets a clay kid recruited?

Coach Whitlock 24:20

What position are we talking? Oh just uh an athl athlete in general like a skill position I mean I'm a big art over height guy so I'd like to say you know if I have a but I'm not a college coach so you know they're gonna go for they're always gonna go for the measurable yeah but I you know I I mean you gotta look at like gadget players like Deuce Vaughn out of Kansas State, Darren Sproles uh this smaller guy that ended up making it that position there's a million of them that didn't but the couple that did so to say that I say I gotta go hype just because I know that's what they're gonna look at. Yes sir so zone or gap what does Clay major in uh yeah okay um I was debating if I want to answer that or not so what what's one word that you could give to parents as far as recruiting uh communicate yes sir what what's one word that you that you have for your head coach that how he kind of helps you out uh delegation okay so coach that's all I got for you is there anything

Coach Moss 25:28

one

Last Message

Coach Moss 25:29

last word you kind of want to give to our listeners or maybe someone that's kind of interested in getting into coaching

Coach Whitlock 25:36

I mean if you're interested in getting coached getting into coaching I actually met somebody over the weekend like please do not hesitate to reach out I'll help as much as I can I I firmly believe that coaching is a fellowship it's a brotherhood you know it's a greater calling it's the one of the greatest callings I feel like you can have because it's not just a job it's not just a career you essentially take time from your own kids to spend time with somebody else's yeah but you know and make sure your family's involved if you are I have I've been married for oh gosh seven eight years something like that been with my wife for 13 we have a six year old son and an almost two year old son and they're at almost everything that I coach. They have been since my boys were born my wife was a college athlete so she understands the grind as well. You got to make sure that you always involve your family in everything you do. Make sure that they remain a priority and you know you a great thing that I love to do is make sure that my kids know they are family to me. I I tell them at the end of the games on Fridays I tell them I love them, tell them to make good choices every weekend and tell them I see them Monday. Yes sir just you it's always it's always just doing everything you can to make sure that they know they're important to you.

Coach Moss 26:46

Yes sir

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Coach Moss 26:47

thanks again coach for coming on coach I appreciate you having me man no problem so um well folks that's a wrap shout out to my guest Coach Whitlock for coming through and keeping it real. You've been listening to Behind the whistle904 please remember to download rate and review and turn on that notification bell so you don't miss an episode. See you next time