Coaching since 1992. Since 2008 growing the game in northeastern NC at Lawrence Academy. Teams have won 400+ games. AKA: Bertie County Peanuts family
Windsor, North Carolina
Joined May 2009
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Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
Interesting observation. The Brewers (almost without exception), seemed to stay within the team colors for all their added gear.
There’s a reason it’s called a UNIFORM. In baseball, your cleats, batting gloves, sliding mitts, elbow guards, and sleeves should reflect your TEAM colors, not draw attention to yourself.
The name on the front matters more than the name on the back.
Look like a team. Play like a team. Win as a team.
WE over ME.
Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
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Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
4th Annual Belhaven Trout Tournament & Festival this Friday and Saturday in Belhaven.
Trout fishing both days with weigh-ins around 3:30, plus a car show, vendors, live music and raffles on the waterfront. Proceeds go to BCCC scholarships for local students going into trades.
They’re also running a pork butt contest — teams cook 8-10 lb butts and the public tastes Saturday from 11-1 for $10 a person. You sample each one and vote people’s choice. Prizes are $500, $300 and $200.
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Good fishing, good pork, and it helps the college. 🐖🎣 I❤️NC!!
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Josh Allen reveals he had zero scholarship offers coming out of high school so he sent 1,000 emails with his highlights attached to every coach in the country, only two responded
“The email said something like, Hey, I’m Josh Allen. I’m 6’5”, 220 pounds. I feel like I’d be a great fit for your program. Here’s my Hudl. These are my stats… I literally just went copy, paste, copy, paste and sent it to every single coach I could find an email for.”
“I played in a small town called Firebaugh, California. I had zero offers out of high school. I had no preferred walk-ons. A couple Division III schools were trying to give me academic scholarships so I could go play there, but I didn’t want to make my parents pay for me to go somewhere.”
“So I went the junior college route. I felt like I was good enough to play, which is obviously why I kept going. I wanted to go to junior college, earn a scholarship and kind of pay my family back for everything they had done for me.”
“I also played football, basketball and baseball. I was a three-sport guy, so I didn’t spend my summers going around to every quarterback camp. I got the chance to play different sports, feel different emotions, meet different types of people and learn how to deal with all of it.”
“I think that’s something a lot of kids need to continue doing, play more sports. Every sport teaches you something that you can ultimately use later in life.”
Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
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Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
Consider this. Share it with your athlees.
You’ve spent hundreds of hours preparing for Friday night.
Lifting. Running. Summer workouts. Practices in the heat.
And how much actual football might you actually play?
10 minutes.
Do the math.
A game has roughly 120 plays.
Half are offense. Half are defense.
An average play lasts about 5 seconds.
120 plays × 5 seconds = 600 seconds.
That’s 10 minutes.
Hundreds and hundreds of hours of work for five minutes of actual football.
And I’m not asking you to give me 10 minutes all at once.
I’m asking for five seconds at a time.
Five seconds as hard as you can possibly play.
Get up. Get back in the huddle. Do it again.
And again.
Until there are no five seconds left.
Hundreds of hours for five minutes.
Don’t waste a second.
Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
Had a parent tell me, “I know my son isn’t the best player on this team right now, but I want him around better players and better competition. Maybe one day it pushes him to become the best.”
What a breath of fresh air. Sometimes development means being uncomfortable.
Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
Internal Memo to my staff. Consider this for your team and culture.
"Yesterday I ran a little experiment based on the Hawthorne Effect (look it up). Clipboards, paper, pen, film, etc. The Hawthorne Effect states that people naturally perform at a higher level when they know their effort is being observed and measured. In football, that means players tend to run harder, finish blocks longer, pursue the football faster, and pay closer attention to detail when they know coaches are evaluating every rep.
As coaches, we can use this to our advantage by creating a competitive environment where effort and execution are consistently measured. We did some of that yesterday by tracking receiver effort, charting play results, Brennon’s defensive grading, etc. Things like grading film, tracking loafs, charting wins and losses in drills, or recognizing players who consistently do things the right way, measuring outcomes creates accountability and raises the standard.
So, moving forward, let’s keep in mind that competition brings energy to practice, and players quickly learn that every rep matters. We did this in receiver drills on Monday, the entire group running the cone and drive drill, had to catch 10 in a row. Several times someone dropped the ball, so I reset the count. It motivated collective effort and focus.
Big picture, our goal is bigger than getting players to perform because someone is watching. We want to build habits of discipline, consistency, and excellence so that giving great effort becomes part of who they are. When accountability and competition become part of the culture, players learn to compete at a high level every day, not just when the spotlight is on."
Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
I love coaching where I coach.
Imagine being a high school athlete and your coach tells you that on Friday nights you get to play RB, LB, return kicks and punt the ball. You get to play 120+ snaps under the lights!
Compared to that kid who plays at a large high school with 120 kids on the roster and get's to play only one side of the ball. Maybe 60 snaps if he is lucky.
Play 10 games. Athlete #1 plays 1,200 snaps. Athlete #2 plays 600 snaps.
Smaller school football is where it's at.
But coach, I gotta play for a big school so I can get noticed by colleges.
Nah...
How about you play at a smaller school where you play 120+ plays per game, show how versatile you are and dominate your division.
College coaches will find you. I promise you that.
Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
Hey! Father's Day is coming up - on the 21st to be exact. Get Dad what he really wants - some of our fantastic peanuts!
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Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
Feeling a bit nostalgic today. Check out the horse drawn wagon that was used to remove the poles holding up the large peanut bales. Hard work!
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Thinking Chocolate and Butterscotch? Come see us here in Windsor. We have all the products all the time.
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Coach J Powell 3 retweeted
The biggest mistake I made as a hitter...
I used to take the first pitch fastball.
I told myself I needed to get my timing.
"See one first."
"Time the pitcher."
"Get comfortable."
At the time, it sounded like a smart strategy.
The problem?
It wasn't strategy.
It was fear.
Fear of swinging and missing.
Fear of making an out.
Fear of looking stupid on the first pitch.
But I disguised it as "getting my timing."
What changed everything was a hitting journal.
Throughout pro ball, I tracked everything.
Every pitch I saw.
Every pitch I swung at.
The count.
Pitch location.
What I was thinking.
What I was feeling.
After a full season, I sat down and started digging through the numbers.
One stat jumped off the page.
On 0-0 fastballs...
I was hitting .367.
Not only that, a huge percentage of my doubles, triples, and home runs came on that pitch.
I couldn't believe it.
The pitch I was letting go by was one of the best pitches I'd see all at-bat.
It completely changed my perspective.
That's when I learned a lesson I'll never forget:
Don't confuse fear with strategy.
A lot of hitters do it.
They pass on good pitches because they're "getting their timing."
They become passive because they're "being disciplined."
They play careful because they're "trying not to do too much."
Sometimes that's true.
Sometimes it's fear wearing a different uniform.
My journal exposed it immediately.
From that day forward, I stopped trying to get comfortable.
I started preparing to hit from pitch one.
If you're someone that is unsure of swinging at the first pitch...
Here's my "first pitch crusher plan" I'd Do Tonight to help you:
1. Front Toss (10 Swings)
Treat every pitch like it's 0-0. Be ready to attack your pitch immediately.
2. Short Box (10 Swings)
Every pitch starts 0-0. Compete from the first pitch instead of easing into the round.
3. Batting Practice (10 Swings)
Look for a first-pitch fastball you can drive. Train yourself to be ready from pitch one.
One thing I've learned from baseball:
The best hitters don't wait to get comfortable.
They prepare themselves to compete from the very first pitch.
Thank you for reading,
Jermaine Curtis
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