What was Coach Cal Stoll's message to his University of Minnesota football team about their NFL dreams? What effect do you think this message had on the players? On Tony Dungy?
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Work hard because few make the NFL.
Dungy not only made a great effort; he has faith. Dungy strategy was to develop a tactic to win and stay the course while believing in the plan.
Coach Stoll made everyone feel like they could achieve any dream including the NFL, which motivated his players including Tony Dungy. Dungy learned patients on waiting for NFL call backs and learned later as a coach to relieve stress by having a shorter call back time vs. a whole weekend of panic.
"Your going to have to outwork everyone in this room and then catch a break in order to make your living in the NFL." "Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man." "I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average." He talked about education and preparing for the res of their lives--lives without football.
He said an average of two of them would make it to the NFL. It could encourage them to work hard, but also to think of perhaps another career other than football. He realized he would need to be uncommon to be successful and that his education was also important to his future.
Coach Cal Stoll's message to his University of Minnesota football team about their NFL dreams was, "Every one of you thinks you are going to play in the NFL, right?" Two of them made it. I believe it made some of them sceptical, but for the most part, it made them practice that much more harder, intensely--especially Tony Dungy.
Coach Stoll told them they would have to work hard to make it into the NFL. This motivated every guy, even Tony, to work that much harder. And even if only one or two would make it to the NFL, the others who wouldn't definitely benefited from the hard work. Coach Stoll inspired Tony, so he thought he could do it and he did.
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Work hard because few make the NFL.
Dungy not only made a great effort; he has faith. Dungy strategy was to develop a tactic to win and stay the course while believing in the plan.
Brent Pittman
Coach Stoll made everyone feel like they could achieve any dream including the NFL, which motivated his players including Tony Dungy. Dungy learned patients on waiting for NFL call backs and learned later as a coach to relieve stress by having a shorter call back time vs. a whole weekend of panic.
"Your going to have to outwork everyone in this room and then catch a break in order to make your living in the NFL." "Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man." "I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average." He talked about education and preparing for the res of their lives--lives without football.
He said an average of two of them would make it to the NFL. It could encourage them to work hard, but also to think of perhaps another career other than football. He realized he would need to be uncommon to be successful and that his education was also important to his future.
Coach Cal Stoll's message to his University of Minnesota football team about their NFL dreams was, "Every one of you thinks you are going to play in the NFL, right?" Two of them made it. I believe it made some of them sceptical, but for the most part, it made them practice that much more harder, intensely--especially Tony Dungy.
Coach Stoll told them they would have to work hard to make it into the NFL. This motivated every guy, even Tony, to work that much harder. And even if only one or two would make it to the NFL, the others who wouldn't definitely benefited from the hard work. Coach Stoll inspired Tony, so he thought he could do it and he did.
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