Diamyn Hall

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Mick Unplugged · Diamyn Hall | From Paralysis to Purpose: Diamyn Hall's Journey · 14 Dec 2024 podcast

And it's no coincidence that they became who they were when they came across Phil Jackson. So study the mess out of that. And once my career was coming to an end, reconnected with Jeff Mercer, who was at Western Kentucky. Now he was the head coach. Now he was the head coach at Wright State University. And he was like, Diamond, look, let's do something that's never been done before.

I was like, I'm intrigued. I'm listening. And he was like, I want to bring you on staff as the first full time mental skills coordinator in college baseball. First time in history, this is going to be done. So you're going to be leading the charge. And I know you're only 23, but I believe you are the best fit for this. I believe you're the best fit for this role.

And I was like, okay, first things first, can we do a roster rundown? Can you run me through the roster that we have, the guys who we have, what they need to work on so I can customize the process? Super big on hyper-individualization. He said, yes. He's like, but before we do that, I want you to build this system. And this is what totally changed my career.

He said, I want you to build our mental skills and leadership system on the foundation and reverse engineer from three things. He said, the first thing is championships. We want to win championships here, period. Number two, we want you to develop our guys' development into the most mentally tough group in all of college baseball. Look, we're a mid-major.

We don't have the same resources that LSU has, that Cal has, that some of these SEC schools have. This is going to be a game changer for us. And he said, number three, we want our guys to get drafted. And so those three things were the fundamental things that I reverse engineered our system off of. And if I wouldn't have come across Mercer, my brain would not have worked that way.

And so I was there for two years and stepped off staff and I was like, I got to share this stuff with the world. And stepped off staff, created an online business and created a book, created an online course and traveling the world, was making a ton of money. But then I was like, man, there's something, there's just something missing here that I had at Wright State that I don't have right now.

I don't know what it is. So I searched for two to three weeks. And what I figured out was that I have a deep, innate desire and need to be in person, in the trenches with whoever I'm working with, where I can see them develop. And so I can coach them up in the moment so that they can become the best versions of themselves in front of my eyes. And I have I can mold them.

I can, you know, and that was something that I was not getting when I was doing everything virtual. So once I figured that out, I was like, okay, I've got to fill that need because that's something that allows me to fulfill my purpose.

So stepped on staff at IMG as a leadership coach, was there for three years, built a really great relationship with Dave Surgeon, who at the time was our national baseball head coach. And before that, he was with the Pirates. I mean, very runs a tight ship. Runs a tight ship and very strategic. You talk about chess.

He was one of the best in the world at problem solving and making moves, like 12 moves ahead. And I learned so much from coaching, from working under him. And he had a very similar philosophy that Mercer had. He was like, look, I want you to build the system based on us being able to reverse engineer from winning a national championship.

Like that's the ultimate national championship in development. We are here to develop these guys and to win championships. So I reverse engineered our system based on those two things. And the first year, we had so many top prospects. We had some of the best prospects in the country. And we ended up losing two games. And so to give you context, at IMG, we don't get to play in like...

We didn't get to play in like the state championships, et cetera, et cetera. We had to win out. We had to go 25 and 0 in order to be considered for a national championship. So we lost two games in that first year and we didn't get we didn't get the national championship. And I remember texting. I remember texting Terrence back and forth after that year was over.

And we've got our we've got we've got the screenshots. We've got the thread of talking about like next year at this time, we will be national champions. And I told him I was honest with him. I'm going to do everything in my power. to optimize what we have, to optimize our systems so that we can pull this off. And he was like, I believe in you, D, et cetera, et cetera.

Know you're gonna do everything that you can. And a year later, We pulled it off, won a national championship. And on paper, we weren't on paper. We didn't have the best prospects, the best prospects in the country. But what we did have was we had elite teamwork. Everybody was on the same page. We dominated every single day and treated every single day like it was a championship day.

Every single rep mattered.

Every single thing that we did, it played a role in us reverse engineering from winning the national championship. One of the things that Terge used to say was it's going to take all of all of us to make this thing become a reality. And so we got everybody on board and we ended up pulling it off.

And I was so grateful that year to be able to, to be able to work under Tersh, to be able to learn from Tersh, to be able to work with that staff, to be able to work with that group because so many great things came from it. So many relationships were built. So many connections were made that wouldn't have been made otherwise if I wasn't, if I didn't have that opportunity to do so.

So until a year goes by and I get a call from the Orioles and, um, Get a call from the oral, say, hey, we've been following you these past, you know, these past few years since you were at Wright State. And we want to, you've got a blank canvas coming in when it comes to this, when it comes to this role. We believe you're the best person for the job.

And, you know, thought on it, went through the interview process, ended up getting the green light. And here we are, just finished up the first year.

The number one thing would be to treat every single day as though you were on a one-day contract. This is what I call the one-day contract mentality.

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