Head Football Coach Cumberland University; husband to Mesha, dad to Abby and Hunter. believer in Christ.

Lebanon, TN
Based in United States
Wednesday wisdom: You never ask who the driver is of a plane, a bus, or cruise ship. So you just need to relax in your life because God is driving your life. He is in control. Trust the ride. #FINISH #GATA
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Come see what Cumberland has to offer. Who’s next?!?!
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Monday Motivation: Do you want to be on your death bed thinking that I could have but I didn’t! You can’t if you don’t start, or you are to afraid to fail. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday Facts: You will always wish you would have started younger. Remember this, today is the youngest you will ever be. #FINISH #GATA
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Wednesday wisdom: Be a lighthouse not a tugboat. Shine and be an example to others. Don’t be a tugboat and pull people around. You can’t just pull people around and expect them to follow. Shine and show how to do it. #FINISH #GATA
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Business trip to Florida #FINISH #GATA
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Friday facts: You don’t get to control your adversity. You do get to control who you are in that adversity. You need to focus on where you want to get to not where you are at in the moment with adversity.
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Wednesday wisdom: Arrows that travel the farthest are pulled back the most. If life is pulling you back don’t panic, you are being prepared to fly. #FINISH #GATA
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Wednesday wisdom: Holding onto negativity, anger, or hate is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
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Wednesday wisdom: God will put you back together in front of the ones who broke you.
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Thursday night is the first chance to have a game day visit. Come see what Cumberland is all about. Local guys should definitely make the short trip.
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Monday motivation: Whatever the mind can conceive and belief it can achieve!! #FINISH #GATA.
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Friday facts: Lazy people don’t know how to start. Successful people don’t know how to stop. #FINISH #GATA
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One week away. Let’s get ready Phoenix nation. Time to make plans to get loud and proud. Aug 27th at Home. #FINISH #GATA
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Come see what Cumberland is all about. Great campus and game day atmosphere. 6 opportunities in the regular season.
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Monday Motivation: Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do. Embrace who you are and work until you can do more. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday facts: You don’t walk away from someone to teach them a lesson. You walk away because you learned your lesson. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday Facts: There is no such thing as being behind in life. You are where you are. If you were supposed to be somewhere else, you would be there. You need to focus on what you want and take action to get there you are not behind. Your work and habits get you there. #FINISH
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Did a little community service today right after practice. Love this team and community. Thank you to Fam Essentials for the opportunity. Unloaded a semi full of furniture in 30 minutes.
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Wednesday wisdom: You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Listen more than you talk. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday fact: Pay attention to how people treat you when they don’t need you anymore. When they benefit from you everyone is kind. A lot of people, you would do anything for, would not even do the bare minimum for you if there no benefit. Choose wisely. #FINISH #GATA
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Great day to be a Phoenix. Report day.
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Wednesday wisdom: A bottle of water is 1 dollar at the grocery store. It is 2 dollars at the gym. The water is 7 dollars at the airport. The only thing that changes its value is its location. If you feel like you are not of value, you probably just need to change locations.
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Monday motivation: Your past is like a wake behind a boat. It shows you where you have been. It can’t steer the boat. The water in front of you is much more important than the wake behind you. Never let your past steer your future. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday facts: You can’t give life more time, so give the time you have more life.
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Monday motivation: If you are about that life in the meetings, you have to be about that life on the field. You have to earn what you get. You can’t talk your way to top. Hard work and consistency is the only way. Not interested in your talk! Show me!
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The search of a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. Blame is easier than accountability. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday facts: the search for a scapegoat is one of the easiest hunting expeditions. Blame is easier than accountability. #FINISH #GATA
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They just refuse to lose. Do not ever count this group out. Get ready Spain. Relationships matter over “talent”!!!
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Wednesday wisdom: The compass was invented before the clock. The direction you are going is more important than the time it takes you to get there. Don’t worry about what you don’t have yet. Just make sure you are heading in the right direction. #FINISH #GATA
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Pray to be a blessing. Don’t pray to be blessed. You can be a blessing to everyone. If you are a blessing to everyone with how you act and treat others, you will be blessed. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday facts: If I know what God says about me, why would I worry about what people say about me. #FINISH #GATA
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Couple of days until last camp. Come get evaluated. Who is the next Phoenix!!
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Wednesday wisdom: Everyone wants to be great until they see the invoice. It will cost you sleep, comfort, and being liked by everyone. Everyone is not willing to pay the price. Championships aren’t given they are earned. #FINISH #GATA
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It’s time to GATA USA!!!!!
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Hard work should be the expectation. It should be the norm. It should not be the extra. Hard work doesn’t guarantee your dreams. It guarantees you can live with the outcome. It guarantees you can live with the person in the mirror. #FINISH #GATA
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Last camp coming up. Come get evaluated to be a Phoenix. Who’s next.
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250 years ago we believed.
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Please don’t forget.
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Everyone is jealous of what you got. No one is jealous of how you got it. Everyone wants the view, but they don’t want the climb. Do the hard, it is worth it. DON’T RUN FROM HARD. #FINISH #GATA
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We beat two countries Bosnia & Herzegovina with 10 men, we’re still not British, and none of those countries have SEC Championships or Waffle Houses!!
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Pochettino masterclass coaching. LFG!!!!!
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MERICA!!!!!!!
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Wednesday wisdom: Biggest mistake in life is thinking you have time. Time is free but priceless. You don’t own it but you can use it. You can’t keep it but you can spend it. Once it’s lost you never get it back. #FINISH #GATA
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van Hecke gets gashed opened and simply just stapled it up on the field!!
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Monday Motivation: Sometimes you find yourself in a dark place. You think you are buried and overwhelmed. You have actually been planted. Just grow in that spot. You will flourish. #FINISH #GATA
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Friday facts: 3 types of people in the world. People that make it happen. There are those that watch it happen. The last are those that say what the heck just happened. Which one are you! #FINISH #GATA
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LET’S GO USA!!!!!
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Camp 2 this Saturday. Come get evaluated. Most of our freshmen that come in were evaluated at one of our prospect camps. Who’s next.
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You can be the 12th best sprinter in the world at the Olympics and get no recognition. You can be the 12th best Plummer in New York City and make a great living. Be careful what you choose. Life is a game. You have to live with the consequences. #FINISH #GATA
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