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Individual Workouts
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLa8IW_oZsM[/youtube]
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#TechTalk: Our National Anthem
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyoVGCebUfw[/youtube] In a little more than a month, the basketball season will start. Up to this point through what we call “Tech Talks” we have covered multiple topics that I feel our players should know about. We’ve touched on a lot of topics such as investing in yourself, money management, how difficult it is to…
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Hokies Hoops & Heels
This Saturday we will be hosting our “Hokies Hoops and Heels” event at the Hahn-Hurst center. This will be the first event of it’s kind that I have done during my coaching career. I wanted to hold a one day clinic specifically targeted to the women of the Blacksburg/Virginia Tech community. The day will…
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Bruce Arians: Coach It Like You Stole It
I try to read everything I can on any type of coach, regardless of their sport or level of success. I have a great interest in the different styles and philosophies that a coach is about. Over the past few years I have really focused in on NFL coaches. Everything about their management styles, both…
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Jenga and The Hokies
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stoYm-LUn98[/youtube] It was around mid September when I decided upon using the term “Jenga” for the theme of our team this year. Every team I have ever coached has had a theme associated with it. Last year it was “Just Today” and finally this year I settled upon Jenga. I grappled with a variety of ideas all summer, but…
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Handwritten Notes
People often want to know about why I write so many handwritten notes, how it started, why I still do it, and of course, where do I find the time to do it? All those questions have reasons behind them, but first I’ll fill you in on how it all started. There wasn’t any social…
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2014 VT Boot Camp
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD8CcHTEm9s[/youtube] Over a 9 day span the Hokies put themselves through a series of intense and grueling boot camp sessions. They had no choice but to work together, work harder, and work to completion. Never…ring…the…bell!
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Your Caring Trademark
Message From Buzz: Jon and I have become great friends, and I believe he is one of our country’s foremost authorities on leadership, because I know him personally, have read all of his books, and have been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with him… He is the real deal, and his spirit…
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Views from the Sideline – My 1st Boot Camp With Buzz
A new city, a new school, a new job, a new coach…and I am one of the two new guys on the entire staff. After spending the last two seasons in the PAC-12, I was one of the two hires Coach Williams made that didn’t come with him from his previous post. From my first…
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VT Boot Camp 2014
We just finished Boot Camp Session #4 yesterday, which was our first day of a double session, and session #5 will start @ 5:36 a.m. Thursday. Despite the newness of the chaos, everyone involved has done a really good job thus far. I have been inundated with texts and emails over the last week, asking…