Quincy Avery
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149 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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I'm a good father and they get to see these things each and every day.
You know, it's crazy. It's going to sound wild. More so than who the person is, a football player, more so than how talented they are. Those things don't matter. First things I want to do is have a conversation with the parents. Because the parents have been, it's been the biggest determining factor in the kids who I see are successful and the kids who I see aren't.
And it's not really what we think. A lot of times people think, It's the parents who are like there all the time. They do everything for their kids. Those are the people who become the best sports parents. Those are actually the worst because those are the people who remove all adversity. from the kid's life. They don't let them go through things. They don't let them struggle.
They don't let them build that muscle, right? And it's a muscle, right? You gotta work it. You gotta flex it. You gotta be able to see yourself in a difficult situation and see you make it out on the other side. Then you gotta see how you can learn from these situations. And then you get to control them a little bit better and act.
You get to act in a way that you're more proud of the next time you go through a difficult situation. But they don't get these opportunities. They don't get the time to work on these things when they're in seventh, eighth grade. They don't have a difficult conversation with their high school coach. They don't have a difficult conversation with the teacher when they're failing a class.
They miss out on all these pivotal life opportunities because our parents think that they need to be the ones to step in our place and fix it for us. Those are the people who I really don't want my program. And that sounds crazy to say, but that is who I try to keep out. And that's what I try to keep away because I don't know anybody else.
Yeah, it is. It's crazy to see, and I've seen a lot of different families come through our system, and I've seen some of the most talented kids not make it because their parents, honestly. That's just the root of it. Their parents made things so easy on them all throughout life that college got a little bit hard, and they couldn't handle it.
It all depends on where they are, where they are in their career, what they have going on. And what I mean by that, if they're in high school, I'll be a lot more in depth in terms of their reads, their fundamentals, the way that they're throwing the football, all those things.
When they're in the NFL, I briefly touch on reads because the things that they're doing are so intricate and so much is communicated to them. in their board sessions with their coaching staff, but the thing that I'm talking about with them is a much higher level of detail in their fundamentals. The smallest things matter the most to guys at that level because the margin for error is so small.
There's a lot of areas of football, high school, college, middle school, that you can make a mistake once, but come back to it because we'll be able to get it again. When you're playing at the highest level, when you're playing against professionals, you don't get a second chance. It's either we made it work when it came up or we didn't, and we don't get to go back and do it again.
So making sure that they're prepared in that moment for that play, that could allow them to change the game because it's not going to happen again.
You know, I'm such a big fan of these young men getting paid and being able to provide for their families. Now it makes me nervous. in terms of being able to manage this amount of money at 18, 19, 20 years old. Because I see some of these guys, and I see them making poor financial decisions. The things that they're using their money for is alarming, concerning, and it'll be fleeting.
It'll be really cool to have this amount of money for a few years, but I know it's not going to be there in the future. So we're giving these guys a whole bunch of money. And they're just going to waste it. Like, this should be a trampoline into having a successful life. And now it's just becoming a money pit to expensive things.
And I just hope that there's some way that we can figure out how to help these young men so that they can make better financial decisions. I love that they can help out their families, but I hate... I hate that we just become the biggest consumers in the world with money that's only here very short term.
Business is business. Right. I want to get what I'm worth. Right. And that's what we're paying everybody else. That's what I should get.
That's just me. You know, I agree. I hate that guys don't want to compete, and that's frustrating to me. because that's where we learn about. I think that, but there's also a lot of times where college coaches are pushing kids out that we don't talk about a lot, but it's really simple to fix. And it's just contracts, right?
If we create real contracts with real buyouts and a lot of these things become very easily easy to fix. The problem is the NCAA doesn't want to consider these young men as employees, which they are. They're employees of the institution who happen to go to school and
And that's where, until we get a collective bargaining agreement, we are going to have issues because guys are going to continue to leave for more money. They're going to ask for more money after they've already agreed to a certain amount because they find out somebody else is getting more.
But when the school doesn't have to honor the contract and you don't have to honor the contract, that is a game that we all play. If schools were always honest with the young men, I would feel a lot better.
lot worse about like the things that they're doing but i know schools lie in the same way that these kids are manipulating uh in order to get more money so it's a bad situation altogether there really needs to be real change that can allow it to be a better situation not only for this the young men but for the schools too right it's so so difficult to operate not knowing who's going to be on your team each and every year yeah yeah you know quincy this is something i've been
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