Ole Miss Coach Hugh Freeze Holds A Funeral For Himself To Motivate The Team

Yahoo – Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze had an, um, interesting way to get his team motivated for the 2016 season.

Freeze said Monday that he staged a mock funeral for himself as a way of getting his team to recognize how to work for the results they want.

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Move over locker room speeches.

Burying the football? So 2015.

There’s a new motivational sheriff in town, and it’s holding a mock funeral for yourself.

I created a funeral scene for me and showed it to all our players. And the whole purpose is understanding that whatever you believe drives your behaviors and your behaviors drive your performance and your performance will give you some result. And we need to work backwards. This is the result I really want, now are my beliefs and are my behaviors going to get me my result.
So I created my funeral scene. And a lot of that had to do with the events of this past few weeks, it’s coming. It happens. We don’t know when it happens but we won’t cheat death. And so I wrote on the screen here at our commitment service, ‘This is the result I want at my funeral.’ This is what I want my wife to say about me. This is what I want my kids to say about me. This is what I want my players to say about me. This is what I want my parents to say about me. And really, the rest of the people are probably, no offense, but insignificant. But is this what they’d say about me today? And if not, I have time to make sure my beliefs that are creating my behaviors are going to get me the result I want. And it’s the same way with a team. The same way with football players. What result do you want? Now are your behaviors going to get you there?

Nothing and I mean NOTHING pumps up your players like pretending you died tragically leaving a family behind. That shit is like fucking adrenaline straight to the aorta.

Seriously, it may seem like Ole Miss is closer to getting the death penalty and holding their own funeral right now than they are to a national championship, but I’m just saying, if you see some good odds, might want to hop on them. Always got to consider the X factors, and a team entering the season fresh off a fake funeral for the hypothetical death of their coach is X factor city.