Benedict College head football coach Chennis Berry talks about the cardinal principles for his team.
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00:00 going into this 2023 season, you know, people were asking me,
00:04 how do you repeat a year like you had in 2022?
00:07 2022 is one year.
00:10 This is a whole nother year, a whole nother team, whole nother season.
00:13 All right.
00:14 We had to make sure that young men understand that the foundation of the program
00:18 has already been set.
00:20 And I said that this season is going to come down to discipline and leadership.
00:24 OK, it's not going to be about talent.
00:26 Everybody has talent.
00:28 It's going to come down to discipline and leadership.
00:30 And our young men have really bought in that.
00:32 But the foundation of the program has already been set.
00:35 OK, there's an expectation now around here.
00:39 If you walk through our building, you'll see the term dig deep.
00:42 All right. Dig deep is on the back of their workout shirts.
00:46 It's in all plastered all over our wrappings on our walls and our weight room
00:50 and our locker room and our team meeting room,
00:53 because we know the adversity in the game of football is going to strike.
00:57 Every day is not going to be sunshine.
00:59 Some days they're going to be rain.
01:01 So we got to find it from the pit of our soul to dig deep.
01:04 And that's the acronym.
01:05 I'm a big acronym guy.
01:06 Indeed, it's discipline.
01:09 You got to have discipline.
01:10 That's just real simple.
01:11 Do right.
01:12 I that's integrity.
01:14 That's your character.
01:15 Who are you when no one is watching?
01:17 All right, gee, that's God.
01:20 We put God first in this program.
01:21 I'm OK with that.
01:22 I can sleep well at night because I first of all, I work in an institution
01:26 of our learning that was founded on Baptist principles.
01:28 So I can talk about God around here and I'll be OK.
01:31 Next is dedication.
01:33 Got to be dedicated to be a student athlete.
01:34 And these guys got to get up.
01:36 They got to go to.
01:37 They got meetings in the morning.
01:38 They got practice.
01:39 They got study hard.
01:39 They got weights.
01:40 They got all the segment means they got a bunch of different things
01:43 that they have to do.
01:44 So you got to be dedicated to be a student athlete.
01:46 Everybody just can't do this.
01:48 You got to be locked in and dedicated.
01:50 All right.
01:50 You got to have the effort, effort in the game of football,
01:55 football play last about four to six seconds.
01:57 You got to give me all you got because you trust and believe
01:59 as the head football coach at Benedict College, I'm going to give you
02:02 amazing effort every day and I'm going to lead from the front.
02:04 The next is execution.
02:07 You got to be locked in, man.
02:08 Listen, every day, man, we all got a plan.
02:11 We when we get in the game of life, we say, man, we want
02:13 we want a house on the hill, boat on the lake, man.
02:16 We want this beautiful life.
02:17 When we draw a play, we're going to run power.
02:19 We're going to get a double team.
02:20 We're going to get a kick up, kick out.
02:21 We're going to get a wall up.
02:22 We'll have a great play.
02:23 Well, sound good in air condition, but you got to go out.
02:25 Execute it.
02:27 It's about executing.
02:28 And then P is pride.
02:29 You got to have pride.
02:31 Tiger pride.
02:31 We're at Benedict College Tigers.
02:33 You got to have pride.
02:34 And I think our young men understand the foundation.
02:36 And when we bring guys in, you just mentioned my transfer quarterback
02:40 or whatever it may be, they have to buy into the foundation.
02:43 Those are our cardinal principles.