BUILDING CHAMPIONS,

PURSUING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Purpose

•Building Champions, Pursuing Championships: Using the vehicle of football, we will engage in the infinitely important purpose of building young boys, into uncommon men that achieve their highest potential.

     •Teaching and coaching our boys in the football program is synonymous with a relationship that inspires learning and growth

     •We are not measuring the public’s opinion, We are measuring something much higher

•Building Champions, Pursuing Championships: While the goal is to compete, and win, on the scoreboard and on the field, and at the highest level, our purpose is far more significant.

     •The purpose however will always be to build young men of character who know how to love and achieve their highest potential. It is far more important that our players are outstanding brothers, community members, partners, and parents.

Differentiators, Values, and Process

•Brotherhood - The binding of men from various backgrounds, beliefs, places, and eras around a singular set of life-directing commitments.

     •Our Park Football Program strives to create and forge a lifelong Brotherhood for all of those choosing to participate in it.

     •With our core values of Love, Passion, Commitment, Trust, and Grit, WE will use the platform of football to better the lives of all those in the Brotherhood

     •WE are not first looking to make a great program, WE are first looking to guide and create people that do big things

     •“Your brothers are counting on you”

Results of the Process

•The Wolfpack football program will…

     - Build relationships that change lives

     - Develop men who will be great fathers, husbands, and sons who are humble, selfless, honorable, and give their best effort in all that they do.

•This is more difficult than any opponent we will ever face:

     - We must each give up a part of ourselves for the team

     - “The man is more important than the player, but the team is more important than any man”

Redefining Success

•ALL decisions made in the program are based on whether or not they allow us to fulfill our principal purpose

     - Winning is NOT more important than doing the right thing.

     - The primary purpose is not to win football games, but we will work really hard at it.

•We must each lose a part of ourselves to find others and further the Brotherhood amongst ourselves.  This task is more difficult than any opponent that we will ever face.  Our needs and wants are secondary to the greater good of the whole.

     - “The man is more important than the player, but the team is more important than any man”

Route vs Destination

•BUILDING CHAMPIONS, PURSUING CHAMPIONSHIPS: Our staff is going to obsess over the destination and principal purpose, our staff will be flexible on the strategy or route that may be necessary to reach it.

     •Obstacles and challenges become easier to navigate because the decisions come back to the destination of our principal purpose

     •The strategy or route may change, but NOT the destination or principal purpose

•BUILDING CHAMPIONS, PURSUING CHAMPIONSHIPS: To learn about love, passion, commitment, grit and trust.  To sacrifice for others, and honor those we care about, to give our best effort, and to honor ourselves, our family, our school, and our team

     •To learn about sacrifice and about caring for others more than ourselves

     •About creating life-long bonds and friendships

•BUILDING CHAMPIONS, PURSUING CHAMPIONSHIPS: Most importantly, about learning to open ourselves up to trust others because we can have no real relationships of value if they are not based on trust

     • Trust is hard because it leaves us vulnerable, but it is a powerful force when people have it

     •We want our young men to learn to open themselves up and trust each other

     •We want them to become men who are empowered to be caring, and loving people that respect others

    •Who will give of themselves to others, and have them grow into fantastic husbands, fathers, partners, community members, and friends.

•We want this to be the great accomplishment of their lives, and not some high school sports achievement.