You know , practice any of that other stuff , uh , same way you gotta attack the classroom , um , just whatever time you can get in there and meet with professors , um , I try to form good relations with professors and stuff and just make sure I'm on top of everything . Some stuff I picked up on just playing at this level , um , like little things that you don't necessarily focus on in high school . I feel like in high school a lot of times it's just , you know , rely .
I attend Youngstown State University and I play football here . Some of the best advice I've gotten from coaches and mentors just throughout my playing career , um , would be how you do everything or how you do little things is how you do everything so like , you know , sports wise how you watch film , how you do , you know , taking care of your body , really little specific stuff like that , um , that's gonna translate to like big picture stuff like how you play , how you execute stuff like that and . Like I can apply that to anything in my life like grades , you know , things on there , um , and then hear the message , not the emotion , um , you know , especially in like a college football setting um there's a lot of high emotions , um , you know , it's a very passionate sport and sometimes taking a step back from that and just kind of hearing the message of , you know what you're being coached to do .
That gives me the same feeling as football like , you know , right now I love just working my tail off towards a goal and chasing something every single day and I wanna have it be the same exact way when I enter , you know , whatever career I should take , um , you know , whatever life looks like down the road if you're really passionate about this , make this , you know , your number one priority , um , you know eat sleep and breathe a little bit , um , I've had coaches , you know . Who've really preached to me , you know how much you can improve in this game if you really put the time in , um , you know , fall back on them , fall back on friends and family , you know , at the end of the day it's just a game , so you know , love it , uh , fall back on your faith and you know just trust the process and just keep working and keep improving . Hi , my name is Ethan Co .
It's kind of all the same , um , you know , if you're not getting right in the classroom , you're not gonna get right on the field , um , you know our coaches are doing great checks on a weekly thing , so it's not like you can kind of just like hide in the corner if you've got bad grades or struggling in the classroom , um , so you know the same way that you'd attack film or . You know , practice any of that other stuff , uh , same way you gotta attack the classroom , um , just whatever time you can get in there and meet with professors , um , I try to form good relations with professors and stuff and just make sure I'm on top of everything . Some stuff I picked up on just playing at this level , um , like little things that you don't necessarily focus on in high school .
Some of the best advice I've gotten from coaches and mentors just throughout my playing career , um , would be how you do everything or how you do little things is how you do everything so like , you know , sports wise how you watch film , how you do , you know , taking care of your body , really little specific stuff like that , um , that's gonna translate to like big picture stuff like how you play , how you execute stuff like that and . Like I can apply that to anything in my life like grades , you know , things on there , um , and then hear the message , not the emotion , um , you know , especially in like a college football setting um there's a lot of high emotions , um , you know , it's a very passionate sport and sometimes taking a step back from that and just kind of hearing the message of , you know what you're being coached to do . What corrections you need to make stuff like that um is really helpful .
