Morehouse Alumnus 🐅. Head Track and Field Coach and Offensive Coordinator @ Shaw High School.
Joined March 2023
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Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
📢Every offense in America at every level of ball will rise or fall to the level of these three things: 👇
1️⃣Quality of their Offensive Line
2️⃣The level of QB Play
3️⃣Ability of OC to Prepare, Make Adjustments, and Fit Offense to the Players
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
Kobe on Leadership:
"Leadership is Lonely. If you are going to be a leader, you are not going to please everybody. You have to hold people accountable. Even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable."
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
💥You are only as good as your last performance.
👉What you did in the past doesn’t matter. What you might do in the future doesn’t matter.
‼️You know what matters? What you are doing right now.
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
What a privilege to be tired from the work you never thought God would help you find.
What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by the growth you used to dream you would experience.
What a privilege to be challenged by a life you spent hours, days and years to create on purpose.
What a privilege to experience the pain of outgrowing the things you used to settle for.
What a privilege to be burdened by the responsibilities of the success that once felt impossible to achieve.
What a privilege to go through the healing required to overcome the things that were supposed to break you.
What a privilege to wake up with purpose despite how far away and out of reach the goals may still yet seem.
What a privilege to be the version of yourself that has come so far and still prays to be better.
What. A. Privilege.
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
Nick Saban on why he learned to put limits around his work as a head coach.
“It was just too stressful to carry it with you all the time...I was so committed, it was not healthy.”
I don’t know any coach who doesn’t bring some degree of work home with them.
It’s a natural byproduct of caring about your craft, your people, your program, and wanting to do things at a high level. Those responsibilities don’t disappear when you leave the building.
But I appreciate Saban’s acknowledgment that commitment has a threshold where it begins to tax your health, your relationships, and your ability to lead.
If you never give yourself relief from the job, eventually your team gets the version of you with less patience, less energy, and less perspective.
Your commitment matters. So does your capacity to sustain it.
🎥: This Past Weekend with Theo Von
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
The standard is only the standard when it is reinforced through accountability. Without that, all you have is a slogan.
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
Chris Petersen offers a reminder for coaches whose lives have become consumed by the profession.
“One of the biggest lies that coaches tell themselves is, ‘Coaching is what I do. It’s not who I am.’”
When you dedicate nearly every waking moment to coaching, it’s incredibly difficult not to let the role become your identity.
You can understand intellectually that you’re more than your job and still struggle to live like it.
As Coach Pete shares, creating that separation requires intentional, legitimate work, not just awareness.
📹: Win More, Live Better Podcast (Ep. 81)
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
Powerful but true… everyone is going through something.
Football should be a place to release and enjoy the game.
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
🎯 whew!
They give a FB coach the job, & call him a “Track guy” 🤦🏾♂️
- No fall or strength training
- No ath development
- 1st practice is in Jan/Feb
The passionate track kids transfer or get private/club coaches…. AND THE STAFF BLAME/SHAME THE KIDS FOR WANTING A REAL COACH.
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
Do the next right thing.
Do it everyday for the next 10 years.
Compete with yourself, relentlessly.
The score will take care of itself.
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Athlete: Coach… I think I want to quit.
Coach: Okay. Then let’s talk about why.
Athlete: I’m tired. All the early mornings, the pain, the pressure. Sometimes I wake up and wonder what I’m even doing this for.
Coach: That’s not quitting. That’s being human. Doubt shows up when you’re close to something that matters.
Athlete: But I’m not even sure I’m good enough. I look around and see people stronger, faster… happier.
Coach: Comparison is a liar. It shows you everyone’s surface but hides their struggle. You don’t need to be better than them. You need to be better than yesterday.
Athlete: What if I never win? What if I give everything and still fall short?
Coach: Then you’ll walk away with something most never touch—truth. The kind you only find when you’ve emptied yourself for something bigger than comfort.
Athlete: So… you think I should keep going?
Coach: I think you already know the answer. You wouldn’t be having this conversation if you truly wanted to stop. You just want someone to remind you that it’s worth it.
Athlete: It hurts, Coach. Some days, it really hurts.
Coach: Good. That means you care. And nothing worth having comes without pain. Now breathe. You’ve made it through every hard day so far.
Most quit before the breakthrough!
Don’t be like most!
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
Denver @Broncos Head Coach Sean Payton on the first 3 steps of building a winning culture is leadership GOLD :
1️⃣ Master the mundane. The easiest place to gain an advantage is where no one is looking. Most organizations compete for the obvious wins while leaving thousands of unnoticed opportunities untouched. But culture is built in those margins. A few extra percentage points here. A little less slippage there. Over time, what appears insignificant in isolation becomes impossible to overcome in accumulation.
2️⃣ Hire people who see what others ignore. The greatest teammates and staff members have it ingrained in their brains that small things become big things. They don't need constant reminders because they naturally protect that standard. When everyone values the details, you can delegate with confidence knowing there will be little drift, little spillage, and very little lost in translation.
3️⃣ Run toward the challenge. Great cultures don't avoid hard things, they feed on them. Sustained excellence comes from learning to convert difficulty into energy because they know every challenge is another opportunity to separate themselves from the competition. Hard, tired, adversity, boring, long, difficult, they're all signals of progress and great cultures are addicted to progression.
The culture you build is nothing more than what your people are willing to care about when nobody has to care. 🐎
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
Texas Tech HC Joey McGuire - Program Philosophy
"Try to put everything that you're about in your program in black & white. Eliminate the gray, define who you are. Have those guys learn it, have them live it & have them defend it."
- The Brand
- Players/Coaches Oath
- Plan To Win
1. Don't Beat Yourself
2. Dominate Up Front
3. Win The Turnover Battle
4. Be Special on Special Teams
5. Create Big Plays / No Lost Yardage
6. Win The Middle 8
7. Attack The Situation
Je’Vion Fluellen retweeted
As Athletic Directors, we have to keep reminding our coaches that if all we do is talk about the sport, we are missing the most important part of coaching.
Student athletes are more than the games they help us win. Their value is not defined by a scoreboard, a stat sheet, or a championship. They are young people with goals, struggles, dreams, and lives beyond athletics.
Invest in them as people first. Learn about their families, their classes, their interests, and their challenges. Build trust before you expect commitment.
When athletes know they are valued for who they are and not just for what they can do, effort increases, relationships deepen, and success on the field becomes a byproduct of the culture you have built.
People first. Athletes second. Winning follows.