Shawn Clark Interview

Just how much the folks in Greenville are looking forward to the start of college football season, hopefully to be fans and East Carolina games.

I know the folks in Boonville the same exact way as do we, here at the sports of because Appalachian State football has been carried here the last handful years we expect the same deal later on this year will be enjoined now, but the head coach of the Mountaineer Sean Clark. In fact, I was just going through a drive-through earlier today and the lady handed me my food had an app state football medical facemask on so a lot about state fans in our listening radius. I got to know as many of us are still social distancing. Many people still in their homes howls the homeschooling going for the two kids will better run a great working right now on the downward slope good lecture six months are right now but will score your completed. Give me the course that Sean Clark believes might be the second best thing he can teach after football being number one is for sure not map with common core that got me struggle every single day because I get the same answer, they get with it was a totally different way. But history is my go to now and that we were assigned to the settlement rocks and and igneous rocks that were going very well here. Clark L.

So maybe if we have time at the end of the interview we can get into the different kinds of rock sedimentary sedimentary and otherwise John Clark with us to follow him on Twitter at coach_S. Clark the snow when you're separated from your team and you know that probably hurts preparation that you were planning for in spring practice. Do you find comfort in knowing that you have an older team and also that your guys already know what you're all about, I do and you were there senior everything this year, and those guys know what it takes to win. And with technology-related steps are a great job for controversial players on a weekly basis and finals last week an hour into a positioning so whether team meeting Thursday and that will start position meetings will install. We're very fortunate to have spring practice early February or early March and met with 11 days if so where have the curve a little bit again.

Not much change how we play athletes the plaintiff about life so hopefully we are right now you mention some of the zoom meetings. Beyond that, what are some other ways you been able to keep you guys engage what you want Dylan to test football looking face times we can do multiple safe times right now what players need for me is the populism meeting Sunderland supplies meeting twice a week. Now it's pop in and say hello to him and you do things in and there's no playbook for this so were all earned the same pace talk to all the coaches throughout the state little bit different and we fully live a great plan and we get back at the start of we were talking the Lincoln Riley a couple weeks ago and he said that the last dance provided an opportunity for him to instill in his players. Hey, you need to act like there's there's no entitlement when you step on campus. There's none of that in all everything even the greatest ever had to bust it all the time when he was in college and in the pros. In order to get what he wanted when you watch the last dance are there anything is there anything that you pull from it that you pass along to your players as a teaching tool without question a little kid at Christmas. Everything I work the one episode it made this quote was we are when you have a price and lease of the Bryson and I think that is so true in our in our program right now because always got first place for three or four years and they have a standard that they played a certain standard with you a great job bring our young guys of all to let another listen, this is not only easy, but if you will win. So as soon as that episode showed to the picture of recorded listen to it about three or four times a minute. This speaks to me Later compared he was. He held everyone is on his team a certain standard in the state of West Virginia. Yes I did in Charleston, West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia. See, I was reading right Thompson story today on Michael Jordan and about his roots in Wilmington and the stories I read about him growing up in the woods or someone myself grew up in the woods north of Raleigh. I found inspiration knowing take this guy he he was able to walk similar land that I did and and achieve greatness.

Maybe have the latest individual career ever you say you been going to your television Sunday as if it's as if it's Christmas watching this. What draws you to Michael what do you admire most about the ecology Carolina growing about what we are.

Go back and forth but just the way he competes.

He held himself in such a high standard, and he would take anything less than that and just got a great thing to get the great shots he may but no one saw the hard work you put into it and to me that's what it's about. You you get out what you put in and select tomatoes for the biggest thing I see you look at competitor is and he was always working to achieve higher team goals with Phil Jackson to me for the triangle offense in an account for the lateness production someplace and just wait by intuiting a team sport and look latest six championships one the greatest players of all absent football coach on Clark with this year on sports on triad the last time you were with us you said pretty early on all conversations you had with the Sun Belt Commissioner with Doug Dylan pointed that were to find a way to have football this fall. What gives you optimism that when we get the September working to be kicking it off at the rock where the state you are a great job back into some sort of normal life but yet we have weekly meetings every week. Some stranger think were on the verge of getting back to normal life and I think what we thought football. That'll give us a Saturday. We because virus we go over a lot of it will be the same, possibly, but left football back our lives again.

I got to know the I see Dave Clawson. He has his ACC big four championship ring that he got for his team.

After beating all the ACC big 14, your team wasn't on the schedule, so they couldn't call themselves North Carolina state champs at the great year last year more wins than any of the teams ever had in state history. How much do you circle that gained Wake Forest at state.

What's it mean the world you have a lot of love and respect" in the University of Richmond, Bowling Green, now await his outstanding job at wake. This will be a great great game. Great for college football. I wish we did every year played out all season. The state is great for college football player regional schedule I go back we play like forced to your couple years ago, the largest crowd ever in history of our school. We put you in Charlotte last two years and both broke attendance record so college football and we can't wait to start and will be a great crowd in Winston-Salem, Milan, black and gold provoking our fans prepare for that game and we look forward to carrying the game on our radio station and there's a lot of that state fans listening right now, coach. Thank you so much for spending the time now.

You have a sewing room that they were always at fans out there to see if the rock is following.

Be safe out there. Likewise, coach. Thank you so much. Thank you, but that's State football coach Sean Clark spending some time with thoughts