This past Saturday, the Texas Tech Red Raiders beat the 22nd-ranked Texas Longhorns in front of their home crowd at Jones AT&T Stadium. Immediately after the game’s conclusion, the fans stormed the field. However, the best celebration took place not on the football field, but in the Red Raiders’s locker room. First-year head coach Joey McGuire took the opportunity to deliver a message to his team in emphatic fashion.
As you watch the video below, you get a sense his players would follow Coach McGuire almost anywhere and do anything they can to help him and the program succeed. Enjoy the video and then I will provide 10 signs of a leader you want to follow almost anywhere we glean from the locker room celebration.
"I told you they were gonna break.
The country's gonna find out. EVERYTHING RUNS THROUGH LUBBOCK." pic.twitter.com/5k1atLU4l2
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) September 25, 2022
As previously mentioned, the following are 10 signs of a leader you want to follow almost anywhere we glean from the video above. First is the lesson followed by the supporting comment from Coach McGuire:
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere asks great things from you. – “I asked you to fight and you did.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere has your trust because when they tell you something will happen, it does. – “I told you they were going to break and they did.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere sees the bigger picture. – “A reporter asked me at the end, ‘What’s it mean to win this game and beat Texas?’ I said it doesn’t mean anything to beat Texas. We’re 1–0 in the Big 12, that’s what it means.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere makes you feel like you matter. – “The country’s gonna find out. EVERYTHING RUNS THROUGH LUBBOCK.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere has great conviction. – “We’re the team to beat.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere is never satisfied. – “If we keep practicing to get better.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere builds unity and makes you feel like you are a part of something special. – “If we keep playing and fighting for each other.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere is always charging ahead. – “Ain’t no matter what happens. We just keep asking, “What’s next?”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere brings out the best in you and makes you feel you can accomplish almost anything. – “You are built different and the more and more you believe that, the more and more this happens.”
- A leader you want to follow almost anywhere knows how to CELEBRATE! – “Somebody turn on some dang music!”
What is one thing you learned from Coach McGuire which would cause more people to follow you as a leader?
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