CFL 02 | Brett Ellis on the sheer amount of time coaches have to build players, how to handle trust, how to form future fathers in your program, knowing when to challenge and when to hug

✅ The time his dad chewed him out in front of his friends

✅ How to handle the trust your players put in you

✅ How to know when to challenge and when to hug

✅ Coaching kids that come from father-deficient homes

✅ You’ll always be “Coach”

✅ Kids are more entitled and the parents are to blame

✅ How he’s using his fitness gym to build more than physical strength

Man, the sheer amount of TIME that coaches have to build their players is incredible. How do you use that time? How do you avoid mishandling the trust your players put in you? How do you form future fathers each day in practice? How do you know when to challenge and when to hug? We’re talking about all of it with Coach Brett Ellis today. He’s owns his own fitness gym, where he trains men and women on a daily basis and is also the strength and conditioning coach at Gadsden City High School. I’m fired up about this episode. Coach, it’s gonna inspire you.