Ch. 6                                                                    Teach Work, Learn Work.

Taught teams for 47 yrs:

There’s nothing more ignorant and obnoxious in football than proclaiming, “getting killed is part of the game” and “injuries are a part of the game” and “death is a part of the game.” They are not part of the game. They are apart from the game. Death and catastrophic injury are unnatural, not natural. If that doesn’t make sense to you, you’re confused. You are a victim of conformity that built AssBackward Mentality, that accepts tragedy and causality. Your teammates and the players you coach are human beings, somebody’s Loved Ones. Everyone’s Primary Mission in football is to invest a level work physically, intellectually, psychologically, and spiritually, to Save Lives by Serving & Protecting. That’s not just a catchy Virtue Signalling slogan for your team website or to post on Twitter to score likes. Serving & Protecting is everyone’s Primary Job in our program – players, coaches, the entire program. Saving Lives is everyone’s Primary Mission.

“Injuries & death are part of the game” is a lame excuse intended to absolve future blame for failing to train. “Injuries & death are part of the game” is a future defence for the offence of not meeting the Training Demands of Contact Sports. “Injuries & death are part of the game” is an alibi to escape future potential legal liability for negligent and incompetent training. Out coaching & program ideology is focused strictly on Saving Lives by Serving & Protecting through quantity & quality of Training Work needed to build Personal Best Strength & Fitness physically, intellectually, psychologically, and spiritually. Before you build your Xs & Os playbook, write your Ideology first. Live it, live by it.

If you & your team are unwilling to get in the best shape humanly possible, you’re a Fraud Squad. Deceptive pretenders playing dress-up. Feeble attempt to train makes you and team feeble.

Good news. The solution is the Arrangiarsi Culture of Thinking that eliminates any possibility or choice or option of being a feeble, out of shape Fraud Squad that has Minus Zero training dignity and Minus Zero Gameday dignity. Don’t complain about what you tolerate. Tolerating Junk Training is 1 of the top 26 most compelling evidence of weak leadership and even weaker Conscience Communication. Until you reach Zero Tolerance for training negligence, you will achieve nothing but Gameday incompetence.

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Not making it on 4th down is not the worst possible consequence of football. Not making it to the playoffs is not the worst possible consequence of football.  Not winning a championship ring is not the worst possible consequence of football. A winless season is not the worst possible consequence of football. A losing season is not the worst possible consequence of football. A Broken Play is not the worst possible consequence of football. The worst possible consequence of football is Broken Bodies, Broken Minds, Broken Souls, Broken Lives. The Coaching Mission is to save lives by serving & protecting. Your playbook is not the primary prevention to Broken Bodies, Broken Minds, Broken Souls, Broken Lives. Xs & Os are not the primary prevention to Broken Bodies, Broken Minds, Broken Souls, Broken Lives.

What you focus on grows. Good or bad, focus is an anabolic agent. It’s tempting to lose focus on the Worst Possible Consequence of football. It’s tempting to mix up the List of The Worst Possible Consequences that guarantees mixing up what is and isn’t a threat to negligence and incompetence. My poor, illiterate Italian Immigrant parents were the first to teach me the Arrangiarsi Law of Survival. Then, my high school factory job taught me a Higher Degree of the Arrangiarsi Law of Survival. The, policing taught me a Higher Degree of the Arrangiarsi Law of Survival. The basic, fundamental ideology of every degree of the Arrangiarsi Law of Survival was the same – predict the worst, prevent it from happening. Predict the worst hell, work like to hell to prevent the worst hell. The Worst Hell is death and catastrophic injury, in mind-body-soul. It tops every List of the West Possible Consequence, everywhere.

It’s inevitable. You can’t escape it. A level of hell will happen during your coaching career that will shake your belief. You will be challenged to fix what you’ve never fixed before. Things will fall apart. You won’t just fall behind on the scoreboard. Disintegration will happen. You can flip through pages in your playbook but you won’t fix damage with Xs & Os. The toughest challenges in coaching are the tough times that challenge your foundational core beliefs, what you value most, value least, what energizes your soul, the energy you want to share, the passion you want to convey, the joyous expression of your soul. But no matter how bad it gets, your ideology is the unshakeable core that you return to, invest in, and provides limitless returns on the investment. Not one Xs and Os play will ever work without the ideology that sparks it, passions it, energizes it, lifts it. If none of the above happen, none will work above or go above & beyond – multiple meanings. Every rep, every set, every instruction is a change agent intended to meet the challenge of surviving in Bloodsports. If you can bleed at it, it’s not enough to lead it. Go above and beyond conventional leading. Ideological is fixed – dual meaning. Fix your ideology and your ideology fixes. Adapt within ideology. Adapting strategy is part of coaching evolution. But ideology is not open to adaptability. Ideology fixes when it’s fixed – dual meaning.

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Nothing endures without ideological consistency is 1 of the top 51 Arrangiarsi Principles that govern our football program. The 3 key words in that principle are ideological, consistency, endures. All 3 words and every Arrangiarsi Principle are connected to Arrangiarsi Team Culture – to building it, living it, living in it.

Ideology and methodology are connected but they’re not the same. Together, they form Team Ethos – distinguishing character. They combine to form Team Worldview, Workview & WorkDo. Ideology is how Team Culture thinks and it’s the Thinking Culture of a team. Arrangiarsi Culture of Thinking builds our team Arrangiarsi Worldview & Workview, essential to building the strongest, fittest, smartest team humanly possible in mind-body-soul. Building Personal Best shape in mind-body-soul shape doesn’t just happen. Nothing just happens. Nothing happens coincidentally, randomly, accidentally, by luck, or overnight. Football doesn’t get you in shape. You get in shape to play football. The 1950’s Mentality of using football as a method to get in shape is dead. It’s ancient. Doesn’t exist. Without achieving the objective of building Personal Best Shape in mind-body-soul, you’re not only a colossal failure at player safety, you’re a Fraud Squad.

Arrangiarsi ideology builds Special Connects that connect Special Intentions to build Special Productions. Arrangiarsi ideology connects how you view the world, the game, your team, yourself, mind-body-soul work, with the highest investment of quantity and quality of work to meet the demands of the football challenge. Special Connections demand Special Intentions. And vice-versa.

Out Team Cultural Thinking is promised on three Basic Arrangiarsi Survival Needs – work, workouts, outwork. That’s how we think and what we think about on Training Day and Gameday – work, workouts, outwork. Every rep of strength-building, speed-building, skills-building, smarts-building, stamina-building is governed by thinking of work, workouts, outwork.

Methodology is the Team’s system of teaching-learning-applying-working. We measure our teaching and learning by what work can be done and what work is actually done. Quality and quantity of work capacity and Quality & Quantity of work productivity. To accomplish the objective of what work is actually done, we live by Arrangiarsi Pedagogical Principles – We Teach Work. We Learn Work. It’s humanly impossible to teach football or learn football without teaching work and learning work, first. How to work at a level compatible with a challenge has to be taught and learned.

“They don’t know what they’re doing!!!” All coaching frustration is predicated on a team’s failure to have learned how to work. No human is born knowing how to work or how to work hard enough to meet the List of Demands of a sport or profession that can get you killed or maimed. Teach work, learn work. Our entire football ideology and methodology are governed by that 4-word statement of Arrangiarsi Work Principles. Off the field, on the field. In the classroom, in the gym, at practice, during pre-game preparation, during every second of all 60 minutes of Gameday plus overtime.

Ideology intends it. Methodology works it. It’s the connection between intention & exertion – intention and work. Ideology builds Strength of Intention. Methodology converts intention-strength to Working Strength – applied strength, production strength, building strength, construction strength. Strongest Intention builds Strongest Exertion. Strongest Exertion builds Strongest Production. You either construct or self-destruct. There’s nothing in between. Our program adopted the Arrangiarsi definition of strength – strong mind, strong body, strong soul, speed in mind-body-soul, stamina in mind-body-soul, skill, will. Strength speed, stamina skill, will, instinct intuition, every tangible and intangible is included in our Arrangiarsi definition of strength.

We didn’t copy or past or borrow or steal our Arrangiarsi Ideology. We inherited it. We learned it from my poor, illiterate, Italian immigrant parents Antonio and Maria. Two uneducated, unskilled workers non-fluent in any proper language except Arrangiarsi Language – they spoke work fluently. To build your Ideology, investigate yourself. Search for what you have already learned and lived, from those who have impacted you most in your life.