Dutch wide receiver in contention for prestigious academic award. #GoDutch #rollriversFB athletics.central.edu/news/2…

Congrats to All-American Rivers WR Cam Schulte, Central College's nominee for the 2026 #CampbellTrophy! #GoDutch

.@TreynorFootball sure loves to rep Central College at practice! 👀 all those Dutch shirts! @CentralDutchFB @mac4fb @MChorowicz @CodyBaethke @Max_Race @CentralCollege

Leading by example‼️ Peyton Ritzert was named a nominee for the 2026 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. The honor recognizes student-athletes who make a lasting impact through community service, leadership, and academic achievement!

Can’t say thanks enough to @mac4fb and his staff for once again putting on an outstanding camp. No one does it better.

Thanks @mac4fb and @CentralDutchFB for hosting another great team camp. H-D -CAL has made many memories at camp over the years some on the field, many off. Thanks again for the opportunity. Go Dogs!

18 total years - 15 years married today! One of our first pictures and our most recent one! Happy anniversary @nbaethke

J-Hawks just got back from a 3 day trip to Central College for team camp. If you’re looking for a team camp in Iowa this is the place to go. Tons of competition, great environment and they always keep things clean! Appreciate the hospitality! @CentralDutchFB @mac4fb

Thanks @mac4fb and @CentralDutchFB for hosting an awesome camp! Navigated some interesting weather but we worked hard and got better! Looking forward to a little R&R and then kicking off our season soon!

Happy Independence Day! #GoDutch #America

Happy Father’s Day, and thank you for all you do!❤️ #GoDutch

Former Dutch defensive back honored by National Strength and Conditioning Association. #GoDutch #rollriversFB athletics.central.edu/news/2…

Dutch eighth amongst all college football programs in number of honorees in 20 years of Hampshire Honor Society. #GoDutch #rollriversFB athletics.central.edu/news/2…

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet. His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard. The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language. Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort. Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in. Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter. She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying. The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it. The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works. Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them. You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank. He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort. Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning. The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely. This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique. The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies. Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words. Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work. His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning. He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about. He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that. The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours. They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

Happy #HooRahDay

Wishing you a happy Easter‼️#GoDutch

I have decided to stop collecting helmets. It has become overwhelming personally and I am just not enjoying it anymore. If you are interested in one of these hit me up and I will make arrangements to ship it to you. Thanks for following along all these years- Jerry

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