Son Of A Coach - Husband To @natalie02gower - Dad To Greyson & Ella - Oklahoma & Texas Football Coach - Member Of @Choctawnationok
Oklahoma & Texas
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Don't recall this in D2 life.
But that $5 pizza after a game, 6-8 hours away, after staying in a Best Western, while writing a history paper the night before, made me grateful to be the 1% that got to play college ball. No steak, no lobster, no national TV, just #loveofthegame
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The amount of HS coaching jobs open in middle June hurts my heart…
Tons of reasons why people are leaving and/or not getting into the profession, but…
Coaches getting out/retiring & not enough young coaches getting into it!
If you’re looking, I know guys that are in need!
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Team Gower just added another member to the squad! Welcome to the world Greyson Cole! This is a victory like none other! What an unbelievable feeling! So proud to be your dad! @natalie02gower was an absolute champ!
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I'll always be an Okie, but beyond excited to get started in Texas! What an honor to be part of @PrincetonHSFB!
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Every year, “It’s A Wonderful Life” comes on, I think how many George Bailey’s there are out there…
Someone lost more than they won, someone had their worst financial year, someone got fired, someone feels they have lost everything with nowhere to go & in a time of despair…1/3
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(1/2) - When national champs self-study ideas such as how important alignment is for ILB cross-dogs, you take notes...
@CoachSchuUGA with some great insight on how they coach their ILB & importance of alignment to effectively blitz cross-dogs.
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Want to…
Have a first job or job change?
Be part of a 6A DFW program?
Coach against the best in TX?
Learn-grow-advance?
Coach Def. on 100+ freshmen team?
Make 72k in 1st year?
See a $200M bond take shape?
Aid DC & have Varsity responsibilities?
Interested? DM me
*CERTIFIED*
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Part of offseason growth is going through new/old playbooks. One of the best reads is this! All about how you teach it! Learn it-study it-teach it-apply it!
Not just for player, but for coach as well! Build template-Draw it-Make cut up-visualize it-practice it-evaluate it-Do it!
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Thinking this is going to have to be added to the playbook. Don't know who came up with this, but thinking this might be the most important page in the playbook! #noloafs
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Listening to @CoachSchuUGA, give clinic talk makes me think of quite possibly the best slide in the history of football presentations…
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Healthy ✔️
Heartbeat ✔️
Growing ✔️
Movement ✔️
Fired up to be a girl dad ✔️
@natalie02gower
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Team Gower has a new addition to the roster! Welcome to the world, Ella!
@natalie02gower was absolutely incredible!
Love this family! We are so blessed!
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Can’t imagine the number of lives this man touched through his years! Unbelievable man & coach! Dude is coaching up double twist stunt on the biggest field there is right now! Please keep his family & friends in your thoughts & prayers at this time! Rest easy, Coach Blake! #freak
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Ever held your son, read him a bed time story, kiss him goodnight, felt as if nothing else matters in this world, and tears of absolute joy run down your face...Love being a dad!
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Kirby Smart discussing how they are able to play "primary to secondary" with DL to play while keeping the principle of the "light box" theory, which allows to keep the nickel/star out of the fit and committing 3 on 2 to pass. Really good stuff from UGA.
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Like thousands of other coaches…
left the house before the sun came up, Got to the office at 6:00AM, tried your best to get a little bit better, and now…
Trying to soak in every moment…
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Sometimes Friday night doesn’t go the way you want. It hurts, it stings-but hearing “da-da” on a Saturday morning is a victory in itself!
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*Drives home thinking about all the world’s problems*
Opens door - World stops for just a moment.
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Woke up-Kissed wife goodbye this morning-dropped son off at daycare-went to school-🏈practice-coached incredible kids with an awesome staff-drove home-ate dinner w/family-played with my son-got son in bed-talked to wife about great day-watch film-Filled with joy! #repeattomorrow
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Loved watching our guys compete today in Odd Man Out Pursuit! We are getting better each day! So much fun watching this group grow TOGETHER! #ALLNN #springball
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Speechless. Going to be a different kind of offseason this year! Fired up to meet the newest member of the Gower team! @natalie02gower
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Thousands of Oklahoma teachers & coaches will wake up tomorrow, do exactly as they did today, and make Oklahoma kids & schools better!
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The Gower family needs some prayers warriors.
Without too much detail, please pray for our sweet Allyson, and especially my mom and dad as they try to trek through a very uncertain time right now.
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Outstanding 3 days in San Antonio! Extremely grateful for the friendships & fellowship through the @THSCAcoaches organization, and to top it off, coming home to this is the best!
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That negative moment when you are about to whine that you just put $75 in the gas tank…OR…that positive moment when you realize how lucky you are to be able to put $75 in the gas tank…
Blessed perspective!
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My man wanted to stay up late and “watch football with dad with his football blanket”…Couldn’t quite make it…
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On my way to the office at 4:37AM, football on the mind...football, drill work, scheme, and "Sweet Child Of Mine" comes on the radio. Reminded that even with all the emotions of day 1 of practice, I'm going to be a dad! Can't wait to "coach up" my newest teammate!
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Great look at spill-overlap mechanics in Tite (4i-0-4i)
Why = Ball bounce another gap - Use 4 OL for your 3 DL - NG able to play dbl team, allow ILB to stay clean & overlap
Coaching points = RB set is crucial - Read/Key 📐 - Allows for Day 1 "nest" ILB teaching progression
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When the boy wakes up early and says, “sat-ur-day” ...... “do-nut”......”da-da”.....
You get in the truck, and go get Saturday donuts with dad.
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Did a clinic few years ago about coaching beyond the X’s & O’s, how to grow as a coach, & things/ideas we learn and forget throughout this coaching world…*me included*
Got to thinking about a few of those slides and sometimes in this profession, we all need a few reminders…
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Ever go in your son’s room before you go to bed, kneel down, watch him sleep, kiss him goodnight one more time, wonder what his future holds, try to make time slow down, begin to shed tears of joy, and wonder how you got so lucky to be called dad...That just happen
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If this year was one of the hardest, most frustrating years ever…
Remember, you are not a failure!
There are good days on the horizon! There are great friends & family out there who love you!
“Remember no man is a failure who has friends!”
Merry Christmas & Happy NYE!
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It was a good try…
It was even verified, but then someone cried and in the end, the idea was left to die.
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UGA idea of "stack-track-fallback" method in both 3 down & 4 down. Like how he uses teach tape to visualize STF, which allows them to keep levels of their defense vs. downhill fits, which can put the surf DE in a bind.
*Disclaimer - "Everyone coaches their LB's differently."
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Whoever you’re rooting for tonight, take a moment and appreciate this…This is everything!
That moment when you’re playing in the biggest game of your life and the road you took to get there just all hits at once…
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If you end your season tonight, take a moment & reflect…It might not look good in W-L ratio, but…
Some of my worst records/hardest seasons, came with the most personal growth, wins that no one sees & my best game plans/ideas.
Lesson: Win column doesn’t tell the whole story
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I will always have questions about this coaching profession…but I have learned 3 cold hard facts…
1. This business will humble you
2. The sun will always come up the next day
3. Win or lose, the love of a son always remains
Back to work with my favorite GA!
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Loading up the moving truck & got filled up with emotion...
Through all the victories & defeats, the good & bad, the moves, & the seasons of the unknown, don’t forget to thank your wife! Can’t be easy being married to a coach!
Coaches wife appreciation tweet!
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Day full of studying Army Defense from this year & they are awesome! These guys are the epitome that you can have plenty of scheme & still play fast! Thinking the 4th insert rush out of Mint/Tite/Okie Front will be the next big thing this upcoming year. (FYI - OU is really good)
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Beyond excited for my guy @CoachAdamGaylor! Been a long time coming for this dude! Absolute ball coach and a great friend! Can’t wait to see what this guy does at @JenksFootball
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When your administration comes by with a handshake, pat on the back, a drink and candy bar, and says “Thank you for what you’re doing.” It’s the little things that make the difference!
Great day to be a Panther! @PrincetonISD
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Off-season is not only about evaluating the X’s & O’s, it’s about becoming a better overall coach, on & off the field.
Sometimes we get wrapped up in the game, the film, the everyday win/loss record, that we lose sight of our core beliefs. Self-reflection = Vital!
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We all have those days where we are far from our best…
Then:
You put your son to bed, say your prayers, tuck him in, kiss him goodnight, put your arm around him & hope that you’re being the best dad you can be…
And your son says, “Daddy, you’re the best.”
That’s a victory.
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Reason 937 to love Princeton, TX! Teachers driving through neighborhoods to see their students! Love this town, love this school! Great day to be a Panther! @PrincetonISD
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Daily reminder that a coach will impact more people in a year, than the average person does in a lifetime.
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I know an amazing HC in DFW that is looking for Def. position coach with PE!!! $60K for 0 years experience + coach stipend! Block schedule, 2 classes, and again, amazing HC!
Former assistants have become OC/DC and coordinators have become HC!
DM me, I’ll get you connected!
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This guy is 2 today! Such a joy watching you grow up! Still brings a tear to my eye that I get to be your dad! I love you buddy! Happy Birthday!
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(1/2) Still one of the best clinics...
@CoachJPruitt talking various 3x1 calls. Talking "clip" & the multiplicity of one coverage call. Answer for 2 on 1 vs. WR backside using "MEG" &/or cone/connie & take stress off field CB by playing trap and/or various 3 on 2 coverage...
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Something else that is cool about tonight…
I don’t know that there has ever been a time in OU football history where two former #OKPreps athletes are calling plays for the Off. & Def.
@OU_CoachGundy @CoachBOdom
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Never forget the days you prayed for the blessings you have now…
Beyond excited for Day 1 of spring ball!
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I have won & I have lost. I have felt joy & I have felt disappointment. I have felt confidence & I have felt doubt.
But I know this…Whatever that scoreboard says at the end of the game, this feeling is forever and always undefeated.
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UGA toolbox is insane. 1st half alone…
Odd front-Even front-Stem-ZM 1/4-MM 1/4-Numerous 3x1 checks-“Big 12 Pressure”-Different NCAA pressures-Man Pressure-“Creepers & Sims”…
And with 27-3, I think the playbook might open more…
Reminds me of this video @JamesALight posted…
"There are so many programs that are afraid to have the big toolbox because they get overwhelmed by it. But they get put in a situation where they need something out of that toolbox, a different coverage, a different pressure & they don't have it." - Kirby Smart
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Moving complete!
In time for Father’s Day Weekend!
New state - New job - New house - New neighborhood pool! So many blessings for the Gower family! Life is good!
@natalie02gower
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Plano West-6A DFW seeking (2) varsity positions
DL & OLB W/core TF! PE POSSIBLE
*MUST BE CERTIFIED!*
0 level Start $$$ + 2 sport + sign on= 72k
Breaking ground on $200M School bond/renovation in fall!
Come learn-grow-advance & be part of an amazing community/ISD!
DM Open
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This...
This is how you end a full day.
This is how you watch ball.
This is blessed.
This is soaking up every moment.
This doesn’t get much better.
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Perks of being a coaches kid (and when you are going quarantined crazy in the house)...Play at the indoor on a rainy Saturday! And as always, Great day to be a Panther!
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Let’s remember…
The 4-3 works, as does the 3-4, ditto for 3-3…
Same goes for air raid, wing-T, option, 3 wide-4 wide-no wide…
Tonight, coaches, let’s please get on the same page in support for this great game, not throw shade at a particular def. that had 13 W’s this year
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“HOT PRESSURE” THREAD…
Although not a new concept, in today’s game, seeing more & more defenses play “offense on defense”. It is vital to bridge the gap between “base defense” vs. “take a shot”, thus opportunities to get offenses behind the chains.
#weekendfilmsession
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Hate that we can’t start Spring Ball today, but we can still find a way to get better! Working on playbook/cut-ups to give our kids as many teaching tools as possible, to know our terminology/scheme!
Create Verbiage-Name It-Draw It-Show Clips Of It-Teach It-Rep It-Execute It!
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Don’t know how the rest of this year is going to go, but this is an amazing start!
#prouddadmoment
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Thread…Hopes this helps somebody
1/14. This offseason has been the best & it has been much more than X&O. I’ve connected with different coaches from all over & have learned more about the outside world of coaching than what people see on game night. This is what I learned…
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It is crucial to go back, take what you've learned, study how to coach it, apply and analyze the result! Have to be great on 3rd down!
#WeekendFilmSession
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Doctor appointment today-The sound of kid #2 heartbeat = music to my ears & tears to my eyes! Over joyed!
@natalie02gower
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Rolling blackouts, frozen pipes, heating up snow to make water, but nothing beats being with this guy on a snow day!
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Two are better than one…
10 Years. 2 Houses. 2 States. 2 Beautiful Kids.
What a life we have built TOGETHER! Happy Anniversary to US!
Love you @natalie02gower
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"Bullets" package is great to install! Saban/Smart/Pruitt "Bird" Blitz patterns for OLB/ILB & SS/FS depending on formation to create pressure &evolution of sim. pressures to allow for rat players/concepts. It's great to see how bullets has evolved. FILM THREAD #WeekendFilmSession
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When you're giving the chalk talk game plan and the GA wants to be part of the video...
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When you have watched Toy Story 184 times, there is only one character that makes sense for school Halloween party…
I love this guy to infinity and beyond!
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Got better today! Not enough characters to describe all the stuff I learned today, so I’ll just say…@Coachcjkinger is a complete dude!
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“Two are better than one.” Happy 6th Anniversary to my best friend and the best teammate I could ever ask for! Up or down, win or lose, life is so much better with you! @natalie02gower
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As a dad, you worry about tons of things.
Your kids making friends being one of them…
And then I see the front of our house…
This just warms @natalie02gower & my heart.
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Speaking from a position coach & coordinator of 14 years experience - (Never have been a HC...*Hopefully One Day* )...
Hope this helps somebody
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Today, you will be reading about everything that is wrong with Oklahoma, if you're looking for something positive today...look no further.
#readyready
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Plano West-6A DFW seeking Asst. DB coach to assist varsity DB coach & DC.
SPED or SS & game night respons.!
*MUST BE CERTIFIED!* - MUST BE!
0 level Starting $$$ + 2 sport = 72k
Breaking ground on $200M School bond/renovation in fall!
Great opportunity for a young coach!
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I am blessed beyond measure! Win or lose, up or down, these people always know how to put a smile on my face! Love my family! @natalie02gower
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Coach Leach appreciation thread!
Let's all just take a moment to recognize the innovation of the passing game, the coaching, the greatness of what Coach Leach has given to this game!
Of course, have to start with "Y Cross". Get single high, level out the cross.
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Ahhh! What a great night! So proud of our kids! Nothing like celebrating a victory with your family! Great day to be a Panther!
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If you know, you know about my sister...Aunt Allyson & Greyson having a talk. This picture is everything!!!
Brings more than a tear to my eye.
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Not a HC, but for every coach…
Once Finished 12-1/won district/state runner up.(Still hurts)
Amazing kids on/off the field.
Stupidly, each week was trying to chase the next win, but at age 28, too dumb to make time slow down & enjoy every meeting/lift/practice/bus ride.
Head Football Coaches: If you could go back in time and tell yourself one piece of advice before you started your first head coaching job, what would it be?
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Great stuff from @CoachDanLanning. TFL/Negative play cutup - Not just a way to find the weakness of your opp., but also the ability to look at why was it successful for the Def. & add something to your playbook (copy cat)& ability to change up how it fits you.
Learn & Adapt!
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So I just felt my future kid move in @natalie02gower stomach...OH. MY. GOODNESS. Yes, that was awesome! Still amazed-excited-fired up that I'm going to be a dad! #humblebrag
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