The incoming freshmen each year for the Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) Division 1 Men’s Basketball team must “reconfigure their relationship with pain” according to the program’s Director of Sports Performance, Daniel Roose. A self-proclaimed “Off-Season Guy,” Coach Roose spent 2009-2019 as the head strength and conditioning coach under Shaka Smart at both VCU and the University of Texas. During his first stint at VCU from 2009-2015, Roose was a cornerstone to the Rams’ defensive style of play famously known as “Havoc,” which requires its athletes to be in outstanding shape. The type of player fit for Roose’s coaching always has “a chip on his shoulder,” and these are the types of players that defeated five Power 5 schools in the NCAA Tournament on their way to VCU’s first ever Final Four in 2011. In 2019, Coach Roose returned to VCU to work for his long-time friend and current VCU Head Coach Mike Rhoades. According to Roose, the move was a no-brainer when Rhoades asked him if he wanted to “come home” while also warning Roose that if he ever missed his own kids’ games, he’d “get punched in the face.” Although his return to VCU in 2019 was with more experience and a larger focus on relationship-building, don’t confuse it with Roose’s goal for his players: he wants them to play “like a pack of Wild Dogs.” Doubling as a family man, Coach Roose is a loving husband and a dedicated father of two children – what TBL Coaching calls a Disciplined Dad. Listeners will enjoy this powerful and motivational conversation once again linking lessons learned from sports and business to life – an episode that is co-hosted by Performance Coach Larry Sanders (founder of TBL Coaching’s Disciplined Dads 90-Day Program).