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At Rose-Hulman, athletics and academics go hand in hand. And no one knows how important the balance between classes and practices is than head football coach Jeff Sokol.
Sokol has coached at Rose-Hulman for 13 years and played DIII football himself when he was in school. On this episode of RosePod, Sokol chats with student hosts Isaac and Reese about the variety of athletics offered at Rose, what coaching DIII football is like, and how Rose-Hulman supports its student-athletes on the field and in the classroom.
Fostering a supportive community outside the field
18:37: I always encourage our guys, especially during orientation, [to] reach out and become friends with guys on the football team. The easiest thing to do is just to have 40 friends of other first-year guys. You can be perfectly happy having those be your only friends. But if you go out and really start to meet the other people on your floor and in your resident hall and just reach out and befriend all the other people on this campus, hopefully other students that aren't student-athletes appreciate the effort that the student-athletes put into their sport, enjoy coming out and cheering them on, and take some pride in the success that we have.
Coaching is instilling love for the game in your athletes
05:20: The big challenge in coaching is: you have to make your players love playing the game. Like they have to really enjoy being a part of the team. You're going to ask them to do difficult things in order to be competitive and to be successful. But they've got to enjoy doing it, 'cause there's no scholarship to hold over their head. They can walk away anytime. So, the student-athletes are here playing the games because they love them. And for us as coaches, our challenge is just to make sure we don't do anything to take that love away.
On appreciating the academic commitment of student-athletes
18:10: A lot of the students, when they come here, maybe they had a certain perception about the athletes in their high school and what it was like. But I hope when they go to a class and they see that all the athletes are in the classes with them, taking all the exact same classes, having the exact same struggles, and working through all these complicated academic issues that everyone hears. And I hope there's an appreciation for that, and they want to come out and support them.
Show Links:
- Rose-Hulman Football
- Rose-Hulman Athletics
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By Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAt Rose-Hulman, athletics and academics go hand in hand. And no one knows how important the balance between classes and practices is than head football coach Jeff Sokol.
Sokol has coached at Rose-Hulman for 13 years and played DIII football himself when he was in school. On this episode of RosePod, Sokol chats with student hosts Isaac and Reese about the variety of athletics offered at Rose, what coaching DIII football is like, and how Rose-Hulman supports its student-athletes on the field and in the classroom.
Fostering a supportive community outside the field
18:37: I always encourage our guys, especially during orientation, [to] reach out and become friends with guys on the football team. The easiest thing to do is just to have 40 friends of other first-year guys. You can be perfectly happy having those be your only friends. But if you go out and really start to meet the other people on your floor and in your resident hall and just reach out and befriend all the other people on this campus, hopefully other students that aren't student-athletes appreciate the effort that the student-athletes put into their sport, enjoy coming out and cheering them on, and take some pride in the success that we have.
Coaching is instilling love for the game in your athletes
05:20: The big challenge in coaching is: you have to make your players love playing the game. Like they have to really enjoy being a part of the team. You're going to ask them to do difficult things in order to be competitive and to be successful. But they've got to enjoy doing it, 'cause there's no scholarship to hold over their head. They can walk away anytime. So, the student-athletes are here playing the games because they love them. And for us as coaches, our challenge is just to make sure we don't do anything to take that love away.
On appreciating the academic commitment of student-athletes
18:10: A lot of the students, when they come here, maybe they had a certain perception about the athletes in their high school and what it was like. But I hope when they go to a class and they see that all the athletes are in the classes with them, taking all the exact same classes, having the exact same struggles, and working through all these complicated academic issues that everyone hears. And I hope there's an appreciation for that, and they want to come out and support them.
Show Links:
- Rose-Hulman Football
- Rose-Hulman Athletics