Coach Amstutz Speech

Everyone goes through a period of time when growing up when they figure out how they are going to live their life. This period of my life began in middle school but I didn’t recognize it until I got to high school and played football for Luke Amstutz. I will be forever great for what he did to me that year, he played a huge role in how I became a man. Coach Amstutz had two really big rules for his football teams; the first one was be a man. He always preached to us that football wasn’t a sport for boys, it was a sport for men. He said this because a man is accountable, he knows when he messes up and he doesn’t try to lie about it. I remember thinking my freshmen year, I don’t see how this makes you a man but looking now at it I know that it is most definitely what a man does. On Saturdays in film sessions after a big win or lose, you learn quickly to be accountable. Film never lies so if you try to lie about how you missed a block, ran the wrong route, went to the wrong gap; film was there and never lies about what happened. Most people in these sessions try to lie about what happened, but you can tell who the upper class men are because they don’t try to make an excuse about why that happened. …show more content…
We protect each other during school, after practice, and during games. In games, my good friend, Nate Ogle was a perfect example of this. In games if he saw or if he heard that a team got hit after the play and it didn’t get called, he made it his mission that the next chance he got he would put that player on his back. He didn’t do it after the play but during the play. It wasn’t a cheap shot but a clean hit; he was a brother on and off the field protecting his