Here are some quotes I grabbed from ASU’s offensive coordinator after practice:
Q: Are you aware of Brady White’s goal setting and how he sets goals for every aspect of his life?
A: Yeah, very much so. All of our quarterbacks do. We make them set goals: weekly goals, monthly goals, semester goals and yearly goals. That’s kind of how they’re dealing. It’s kind of private between myself and him, it’s a file we keep on each player and I’d say Brady has probably been doing that a long time and the others probably when we started making them do it here as far as just writing it down. But yes he’s very mature in that way.
Q: Did you do that at Southern Miss as well?
A: We did. The kid we had at Southern Miss was kind of used to me because I coached him in high school so definitely kind of had that ahead of him and then we did it, we set goals. The first thing we try to do is set team goals, I think that’s the most important thing. But if you don’t have some individual goals for yourself, I think you got to have something that drives you.
Q: Without getting into too much detail, what are some examples of those goals?
A: I just think, Tom Brady probably had goals I guess to get where he’s at because he wasn’t a big-time draft pick guy and all that and he believed in himself and I think some of your goals are not things you can put your hands on: ‘I want to win this award, I want to do this.’ I think some of your goals are ‘I just want to be this guy on this team, my goal is for my team to look at me in this way.’ All of our quarterbacks have different personalities but their job is to make the 100-whatever guys on this team follow them and they’re from all different walks of life. I think it’s important you got to reach everybody on your team, that’s the key to being a really good quarterback.
Q: Will Bryce work with the newcomers tomorrow?
A: No, no we’ll rotate that. We’re going to continue to rotate it as long as the weather gives us a chance. We just had to figure it out plus he got more reps doing that an we’ll figure it out.
Q: Do you think all three quarterbacks have handled the competition well like you don’t see it wearing down on them?
A: I don’t. At night we have our camp fires where we kind of sit around and chew the fat so to speak. They all are competitive, don’t get me wrong, but I think they’re all Sun Devils. They all really want to win. They want to reach those team goals and so far, so good on that.
Q: Did things go as well as you’d expected for the first day of camp?
A: I thought we took care of the ball. I think if you looked at team periods we took care of the ball which is really good. That’s our number one goal is ball security. That’s something that over coach Graham’s tenure they’ve been really good at here and last year probably not as good as they wanted so that’s one of our emphases and I thought they did a really good job in the team stuff taking care of the ball.
Q: Did you have a setting like Tontozona anywhere else you coached before?
A: I took my high school team to a place like this one time. We did a Navy SEAL boot camp training during the summer, we weren’t practicing but when I first got into coaching we did do something just like that which is good.
Q: Are you aware of Brady White’s goal setting and how he sets goals for every aspect of his life?
A: Yeah, very much so. All of our quarterbacks do. We make them set goals: weekly goals, monthly goals, semester goals and yearly goals. That’s kind of how they’re dealing. It’s kind of private between myself and him, it’s a file we keep on each player and I’d say Brady has probably been doing that a long time and the others probably when we started making them do it here as far as just writing it down. But yes he’s very mature in that way.
Q: Did you do that at Southern Miss as well?
A: We did. The kid we had at Southern Miss was kind of used to me because I coached him in high school so definitely kind of had that ahead of him and then we did it, we set goals. The first thing we try to do is set team goals, I think that’s the most important thing. But if you don’t have some individual goals for yourself, I think you got to have something that drives you.
Q: Without getting into too much detail, what are some examples of those goals?
A: I just think, Tom Brady probably had goals I guess to get where he’s at because he wasn’t a big-time draft pick guy and all that and he believed in himself and I think some of your goals are not things you can put your hands on: ‘I want to win this award, I want to do this.’ I think some of your goals are ‘I just want to be this guy on this team, my goal is for my team to look at me in this way.’ All of our quarterbacks have different personalities but their job is to make the 100-whatever guys on this team follow them and they’re from all different walks of life. I think it’s important you got to reach everybody on your team, that’s the key to being a really good quarterback.
Q: Will Bryce work with the newcomers tomorrow?
A: No, no we’ll rotate that. We’re going to continue to rotate it as long as the weather gives us a chance. We just had to figure it out plus he got more reps doing that an we’ll figure it out.
Q: Do you think all three quarterbacks have handled the competition well like you don’t see it wearing down on them?
A: I don’t. At night we have our camp fires where we kind of sit around and chew the fat so to speak. They all are competitive, don’t get me wrong, but I think they’re all Sun Devils. They all really want to win. They want to reach those team goals and so far, so good on that.
Q: Did things go as well as you’d expected for the first day of camp?
A: I thought we took care of the ball. I think if you looked at team periods we took care of the ball which is really good. That’s our number one goal is ball security. That’s something that over coach Graham’s tenure they’ve been really good at here and last year probably not as good as they wanted so that’s one of our emphases and I thought they did a really good job in the team stuff taking care of the ball.
Q: Did you have a setting like Tontozona anywhere else you coached before?
A: I took my high school team to a place like this one time. We did a Navy SEAL boot camp training during the summer, we weren’t practicing but when I first got into coaching we did do something just like that which is good.
