00:00Go ahead and play that clip that I put in there about competitive stamina, because I think this is important.
00:05Virginia's coach talking about competitive stamina.
00:08Again, they had that overtime win over Florida State.
00:11I mean, competitive stamina is just competing to a standard regardless of circumstance.
00:16Competing to the standard slags regardless of circumstance.
00:19I mean, that's essentially what it is.
00:21You know, the question is, I mean, are you willing?
00:24And I always ask, you know, the kids I coach this, ask any player of this in the world.
00:28Like, are you willing to play or invest or pour yourself out when you know the outcome's already predetermined?
00:36Yeah.
00:36Win or lose, are you willing to give it all?
00:38And you've heard Nick Saban get on, guys, about this.
00:41You can talk to your young kids about it.
00:44You see it in college football, the professional ranks that you're getting paid.
00:48Like, your job is to play hard every play regardless of whether or not you're up by 17 or down by 17.
00:54And whether there's 25 minutes left in the game or 25 seconds left in the game.
00:58Like, that's that competitive stamina for you to put aside the outside circumstances and just truly focus in and dive in on the moment and to give everything you've got to that specific task.
01:14Yeah, Nick, on his board, it says toughness is the ability to perform at an elite level regardless of mental, physical, emotional discomfort.
01:24And that's something that we train.
01:26The reason I wanted to bring this up is regardless of where you are within the game, and that's the beauty of college football and just football, the game in general,
01:35is that you train 365 days a year for whether it's seven games in junior high or 10 games in high school or 12 games in college or 17 games in the pros.
01:47Like, it's all year that you're doing it for those Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday moments.
01:54And that competitive stamina, regardless of what the situation is, do you continue to compete to put forth the best attitude and effort that you can, four to six A to B?
02:06And so I thought that that was very important, and that's something that we train at Ohio State, and it was awesome that he was able to mention it.
02:13Pat, I know we got a couple more minutes.
02:15Throw up the one about J.J., and I think this is imperative.
02:19So, J.J., this is C.J. Donaldson talking about Jeremiah Smith.
02:23The running back, the start, well, one of the starting running backs transferred in here from West Virginia has only been in Ohio State eight months, like?
02:33Yeah, eight months, eight months.
02:34January, February, been eight, eight and a half, nine months.
02:37And so talking about J.J., who is a young guy, a sophomore, and probably the best receiver in college football, maybe one of the best players, and we'll see it in New York as well.
02:48Yeah, and he just says, he says, that alien gives us some juice, man.
02:54That guy is different.
02:56And guys, he's not alluding to his athletic ability.
03:00It's just how he handles his business.
03:03We heard Ryan Day talk about, like, hey, look at what Jeremiah does.
03:07The dude doesn't necessarily speak.
03:09He speaks with his pads.
03:10Great conversation I'm having with my youngest.
03:12How do you speak with your pads?
03:14It comes from the work that you do before you put the pads on.
03:19It's the film study.
03:20It's the weight room.
03:21It's the extra reps on the jug machine for a wide receiver.
03:25It's all of those things so that in the moment when you're down 3-0 and they bring you underneath and you go and just run and score a touchdown, you go into half 7-3, that's the juice that he's talking about.
03:37But it's consistent and it's over time.
03:40That ties right in with that competitive stamina.
03:43It's the ability to do it all game, every practice.
03:48You're the same person, whether it's on the field, off the field, in the meeting room.
03:54That is the consistency.
03:55That is the type of stamina you want.
03:57And that is a guy that just transferred in talking about a younger guy and, again, not a captain.
04:04Leadership has no age.
04:06And it's just, to me, when we're able to bring some time to this, it's great for us to be able to articulate why that is so important in athletics.
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