Landon Donovan

where you get to 20, so you have to maximize every minute of them.

You often get the best of them as well.

because they're not bringing all their daily stuff in.

It's a break from their parents in many regards.

So they're like, oh my God, this is fabulous.

So I feel that because I've experienced both sides now, I've learned you don't get them that often to make it count.

Like be so intentional to make every minute count.

And when they come in, I say this to my staff all the time, I don't want to see you sat behind laptops.

You have 80% of the time to do all that.

You've got 20% of the time to make sure they have our full attention.

And when we send them home...

they're itching to get back here.

So that's probably my first big thing.

The second is I also don't have six-week leading times in a pre-season, which I've done for 20-odd years.

You've got three days.

All right, how are we going to get across a game plan to deliver against two opponents upcoming in three days?

But you might only have eight of them that can do 50% of the session because they've just got off of a plane.

The other 50% just played the game the night before.

Okay, so it's not really three days, it's two days.

Okay, so how do we make the classroom count?