Gary Runyon

" Forget about the scoreboard. There is no scoreboard. You don't focus on what you want to accomplish, you focus on what you have to do to accomplish it. It's a process of what it takes to be successful. We talk about playing 60 minutes all the time, but really every play lasts about five seconds, so if you played 70 plays in a game, you'd really be playing 350 seconds, which is about six minutes in the game. The process is very simple to understand. The process is focusing on the task at hand without anything external to alter your focus. Do you have the discipline to execute the right thing, the right way, the right time, all the time? How good do you wanna be? That philosophy was the foundation of what the organization was built on." ESPN's new Saban documentary dropped this week. Few coaches have ever had the success Nick Saban has had. Most of us were coaching while he did it. Getting a deeper look behind the scenes now is rare. When I was just getting into coaching, I read his book. It showed me a lot about what matters. We all know it as "the process" now. We've heard it so much that it's easy to overlook it and write it off as cliché. That's one of the worst mistakes you can make as a coach. Whatever you call it, the process is what separates the good coaches from the rest. And having a process isn't the hard part. Executing it is. It's one thing to be a disciplined coach who follows your own plan. It's a whole other thing to get everyone on a team to follow it. And before you can have a plan, you need a vision. The vision is where you're taking your team. It decides what goes into your process. The vision is also what you sell. It's what gets people to believe and join. So you set the vision. You build the process to get there. Then you relentlessly make sure that process gets followed, day in and day out. Over time, executing the process gets you results. Those results tell you whether your process is any good. You adjust the process based on the results, and you keep executing. None of this is a secret. It's just rarely followed to the level Nick Saban followed it. 1) Have a vision. 2) Build a process to make it real. 3) Execute the process. 4) Adjust the process based on results. 🙏