OTF Premium OTF on the Road: Steve Sarkisian's keynote address at the THSCA Convention

[Gman2]

44 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

The CEO of Hudl is speaking right now. A good throwback moment for me to mentioning how the only way to get game film and highlights was to travel the state and get a DVD from the high school staff.

I've got a few early 2010s DVDs of Longhorn recruits in a storage bin in my office. I'd dig them out, but I don't have a DVD player.

Do you have Blu-Ray? Apologize if you already know this, but Blu-Ray players are compatible with DVD.

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[Jeff Howe]

I hope Sark’s message got across in my running thread of his speech. It can be tough to convey emotion when you’re trying to capture every moment, but this was a great talk that provided a lot of insight on the culture Sark has fostered at Texas.

[Jeff Howe]

1 minute ago, Gman2 said:

Do you have Blu-Ray? Apologize if you already know this, but Blu-Ray players are compatible with DVD.

I think my wife got rid of the one we had because all of our Christmas movies and such are now digital.

[Rocky P]

8 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

I hope Sark’s message got across in my running thread of his speech. It can be tough to convey emotion when you’re trying to capture every moment, but this was a great talk that provided a lot of insight on the culture Sark has fostered at Texas.

Did you record it by chance?

 

[Jeff Howe]

2 minutes ago, Rocky P said:

Did you record it by chance?

 

As far as I know, that's one of the things I'm not allowed to record.

[cochamps]

A lot of Sark's message reminds me of an updated version of former UCLA basketball Caoch John Wooden, and his pyramid of success.  Coach Wooden was a great communicator, who was able to get his meesage through to his (admitedly great) players.  It is not surprising to me that Coach Sark is having similar success, which I think is still in it's early stages.

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[TTaylor2135]

44 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

A lot of what Sark believes in resilience and positive energy when dealing with adversity comes from studying Kobe Bryant. 

Studying Kobe and not Lebron. Good man, Sark. 

[UTexas]

17 minutes ago, TTaylor2135 said:

Studying Kobe and not Lebron. Good man, Sark. 

True. Very true. 

[CJ Vogel]

Great breakdown here, Jeff!

[Jeff Howe]

47 minutes ago, cochamps said:

A lot of Sark's message reminds me of an updated version of former UCLA basketball Caoch John Wooden, and his pyramid of success.  Coach Wooden was a great communicator, who was able to get his meesage through to his (admitedly great) players.  It is not surprising to me that Coach Sark is having similar success, which I think is still in its early stages.

I think Sark’s secret sauce is his vulnerability. He doesn’t run from his past, but it doesn’t define him either.

There are few things in life as fulling as watching someone you love battle addiction, overcome it and grow from by becoming the best version of themselves.

To that end, the version of Sark that Washington and USC hoped they’d get appears to be the one Texas has right now.

[CoachBobbyFinstock]

Outstanding work Jeff

[Jeff Howe]

5 hours ago, CoachBobbyFinstock said:

Outstanding work Jeff

Thanks, CoachBobbyFinstock!

[Jeff Howe]

I wanted to add a few of the slides that Sark put up on screens in the ballroom during his address.

He's talked about some of these things in various interviews over the last couple of years, but today was a one-stop shop for everything you could want to know about the culture at Texas was built and it's being maintained.

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