Some coaches build football teams while others build football families. Coach Ernie McCook, the Head Football Coach at Shepard University in West Virginia, is winning and doing it the right way. He has found peace in his life and built a football family and in the process turned the D-II program into a national football powerhouse along the way.  

In this weeks interview Coach McCook and I sit down and talk coaching, life, leadership and the secrets to success both on and off the filed. We discuss his early childhood influences and the men and women that helped him establish his approach and philosophies as a coach and a man.  We discuss how Coach McCook found peace in his life and how he feels finding his place in the world has been the true blessing in his life.   
  
A self described "player coach" learn how Coach McCook goes about the process of family building in his program, the importance to building good character and how he went about build an organizational culture that is hard to beat.  We'll discuss Coach McCook’s philosophies on discipline, mentoring and how you recruit in today’s hyper-competitive environment. 
  
This is a powerful talk about for every coach and business leader about finding success in both your career and in your life.  

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